I _am_ a geek working for a F500 company. We always ask the recruiters who are setting up interviews for us to tell the interviewee "no tie required".
A few still wear them, but most don't, and last time I checked there's no checkbox on our interview record sheet for "wore a tie". Actually, come to think of it, I don't think that any of the successful hirees from our last round wore ties to the interview, particularly not for the second interview.
Of course, if you didn't know that he was the Microsoft co-founder, you probably also don't know that he pretty much rescued the SETI program when NASA cut funding, and that most of his contributions to Microsoft happened before they started producing really sad software.
If you know anything about Paul Allen (and I'm not claiming to be a personal friend or a biographer, although I have hoisted a couple of beers with him), this is about as shocking as finding out that Britney Spears released another album.
You might want to look info Zinf (formerly known as Freeamp). Development for the Windows port has somewhat stalled, but the latest Windows binaries are available at zinf.sf.net.
Zinf has the best playlist interface I've seen in any MP3 player.
Disclaimer: I did contribute some code to zinf, but I'm not really a very active contributor anymore...
We're just on the cusp of broadband not being a luxury.
Do you consider it a luxury to have electricity and running water? My grandparents considered it so up until the mid-twentieth century, and if yours did not, you don't have to go back more than a generation to find ancestors who did.
I find it funny that I read the same thing, with (I believe) the same "10 years ago" window of time... when I was in high school fifteen years ago.
How long ago do you think the "old system" taught people to think critically? How do you square that with the high popularity of, say, the U.S. support of the Shah of Iran? The Vietnam war (which was, despite a very vocal minority, generally supported up until the very end)? McCarthyism? The interment of Asian Americans?
It's no secret that the U.S. education system of today doesn't do a good job of teaching critical thinking. I, however, don't think there's a "golden era" when it did.
If you don't have the crocs, the people just lollygag down in the pit, moaning and yelling for help.
Alternatively, make sure that if you drop the designer of the pit into the pit, you have someone standing by ready to shoot him if he survives. Also make sure he's a crack shot--there's nothing worse than having a wounded deathtrap designer writhing at the bottom of his own deathtrap, whining about "Why did you shoot me in the arm?!"
Have you been using them while plugged into an outlet without taking out the battery??
The OP is claiming that actually using the laptop while you have both a battery in, and the AC adapter plugged in, drains the battery. Still not sure I believe this--I've never seen a recommendation against it before, but it's at least possible he's correct.
You don't need signatures.... You'll still have to get your package list from the central server, so the updated package listings will contain the new hashes.
Exactly... if you use digital signatures, though, you only ever have to contact the "trusted server" once. After that, you can just contact your nearest peer.
MS-DOS was far from Microsoft's first product. If you ever had a Commodore 64, Atari, TRS-80, or Apple computer, MS did the BASIC for them. (To be exact, MS did Applesoft BASIC, not the earlier and more limited Integer BASIC). The languages gave them the credibility and cash to buy a DOS which they could license to IBM.
On the other hand, you're correct in that Windows wasn't really financially viable until 3.1, but that came out in 1990, IIRC. MS-DOS was the cash cow for a while, but that was the late 1980s, not 1990s.
Definitely not true. Microsoft's first products were languages, and until the mid-1990s, it was their cash cow.
Office and consumer OSs are definitely the current cash cow, but I believe that the Dev Tools group is still in the black. It's not easy to figure out exactly how much they pull in from tools because in their financials it's lumped in a bunch of other things. However, in their latest 10k, revenue from "developer tools, training, certification, Microsoft Press and other services" was listed at US$1.016 BILLION. Yes, with a B.
How much of that is actual developer tools isn't clear, but that group as a whole (which includes CALs, licensing, etc.) made US$1.409 billion last year, and they're estimating US$1.848 billion this year.
This is already being done, but in a different way. Game developers are starting to barter their bench time out to other companies (as PopTop did for Age of Wonders). This is good for both parties: the recipient doesn't have to increase staff during the "crunch" period when more content is needed more quickly, and the contractor gets some payoff during the usual revenue lull between releases.
Probably not the same quality, but a few months ago, I saw Wal-Mart selling a karaoke device that claimed to support auto-tuning. My aversion to the idea of a home karaoke device fought off my geek tech curiosity, though, so I couldn't bring myself to plunk down the $80 (or whatever it was) to take it home and try it out.
...and if we ban driving altogether, all 20 will survive.
Seriously, quantitative decisions about "how much bad" to allow almost never solve problems. We need to think about lateral solutions to the problem, like "how to ensure that children can't get into that situation."
I know the type. Fifty years ago, he would have been one of those guys that had a fuse blow, and since he didn't have a fuse on hand, stuck a penny in the fuse socket "just until the hardware store opens up on Monday," i.e., until someone buys the house thirty years later.
My brother-in-law bought a nice, old house in a small town a few years ago, for a really reasonable price. It was owned by an appliance dealer, who...ahem...did all his own wiring.... (You can tell by the background music where the monster is hiding, can't you?)
$15,000 later, it probably won't burn down from electrical causes.
The oldest Yakov Smirnoff I remember distinctly was "In America, you can always find a party; in Russia, party always finds you", but I think that the television one was contemporary.
Yes, but the whole tenor of a press conference is different from Prime Minister's Questions sessions. In a press conference, the president is running the show. He says when it's over, he picks who can ask the questions, and in general, he is in charge. In Questions, the show is run (IIRC) by the leader of the opposition party, and the PM doesn't have a say in whose question he gets to dodge^H^H^H^H^Hanswer next.
CSPAN does cover the HoC on occasion. Having seen both the U.S. Congress and the House of Commons on CSPAN, I can definitely say that watching the HoC is infinitely more entertaining than watching my own congress. They're more concise, less constrained by false decorum, and not afraid to call 'bullshit' when needed.
The idea that Mr. Blair has to periodically submit himself to fairly brutal question-and-answer sessions there is something that I wish we could implement in the U.S.
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You forgot to append, "you insensitive clod!"
It did, but he was still a Padawan. He died in Ep4.
Sorry, Charlie.
I _am_ a geek working for a F500 company. We always ask the recruiters who are setting up interviews for us to tell the interviewee "no tie required".
A few still wear them, but most don't, and last time I checked there's no checkbox on our interview record sheet for "wore a tie". Actually, come to think of it, I don't think that any of the successful hirees from our last round wore ties to the interview, particularly not for the second interview.
Of course, if you didn't know that he was the Microsoft co-founder, you probably also don't know that he pretty much rescued the SETI program when NASA cut funding, and that most of his contributions to Microsoft happened before they started producing really sad software.
If you know anything about Paul Allen (and I'm not claiming to be a personal friend or a biographer, although I have hoisted a couple of beers with him), this is about as shocking as finding out that Britney Spears released another album.
You might want to look info Zinf (formerly known as Freeamp). Development for the Windows port has somewhat stalled, but the latest Windows binaries are available at zinf.sf.net.
Zinf has the best playlist interface I've seen in any MP3 player.
Disclaimer: I did contribute some code to zinf, but I'm not really a very active contributor anymore...
Are you trolling, or just confused?
The player they're talking about isn't even available for Linux. It's Windows-only.
We're just on the cusp of broadband not being a luxury.
Do you consider it a luxury to have electricity and running water? My grandparents considered it so up until the mid-twentieth century, and if yours did not, you don't have to go back more than a generation to find ancestors who did.
I find it funny that I read the same thing, with (I believe) the same "10 years ago" window of time... when I was in high school fifteen years ago.
How long ago do you think the "old system" taught people to think critically? How do you square that with the high popularity of, say, the U.S. support of the Shah of Iran? The Vietnam war (which was, despite a very vocal minority, generally supported up until the very end)? McCarthyism? The interment of Asian Americans?
It's no secret that the U.S. education system of today doesn't do a good job of teaching critical thinking. I, however, don't think there's a "golden era" when it did.
Perhaps they've changed this behavior since then, but since finding WxWindows I havn't had any motivation to check back.
Maybe that's why Borland are contributing support to wxWindows now, and have a seat on the newly-formed wxWindows Foundation.
The best way to destroy subtle irony is to erect a large flashing neon light, reading "SUBTLE IRONY HERE ->".
If you don't have the crocs, the people just lollygag down in the pit, moaning and yelling for help.
Alternatively, make sure that if you drop the designer of the pit into the pit, you have someone standing by ready to shoot him if he survives. Also make sure he's a crack shot--there's nothing worse than having a wounded deathtrap designer writhing at the bottom of his own deathtrap, whining about "Why did you shoot me in the arm?!"
Read that again:
Have you been using them while plugged into an outlet without taking out the battery??
The OP is claiming that actually using the laptop while you have both a battery in, and the AC adapter plugged in, drains the battery. Still not sure I believe this--I've never seen a recommendation against it before, but it's at least possible he's correct.
You don't need signatures. ... You'll still have to get your package list from the central server, so the updated package listings will contain the new hashes.
Exactly... if you use digital signatures, though, you only ever have to contact the "trusted server" once. After that, you can just contact your nearest peer.
MS-DOS was far from Microsoft's first product. If you ever had a Commodore 64, Atari, TRS-80, or Apple computer, MS did the BASIC for them. (To be exact, MS did Applesoft BASIC, not the earlier and more limited Integer BASIC). The languages gave them the credibility and cash to buy a DOS which they could license to IBM.
On the other hand, you're correct in that Windows wasn't really financially viable until 3.1, but that came out in 1990, IIRC. MS-DOS was the cash cow for a while, but that was the late 1980s, not 1990s.
Definitely not true. Microsoft's first products were languages, and until the mid-1990s, it was their cash cow.
Office and consumer OSs are definitely the current cash cow, but I believe that the Dev Tools group is still in the black. It's not easy to figure out exactly how much they pull in from tools because in their financials it's lumped in a bunch of other things. However, in their latest 10k, revenue from "developer tools, training, certification, Microsoft Press and other services" was listed at US$1.016 BILLION. Yes, with a B.
How much of that is actual developer tools isn't clear, but that group as a whole (which includes CALs, licensing, etc.) made US$1.409 billion last year, and they're estimating US$1.848 billion this year.
I hate to feed the troll, but every green-card holder I've every known has had a driver's license. Not a one could vote.
This is already being done, but in a different way. Game developers are starting to barter their bench time out to other companies (as PopTop did for Age of Wonders). This is good for both parties: the recipient doesn't have to increase staff during the "crunch" period when more content is needed more quickly, and the contractor gets some payoff during the usual revenue lull between releases.
Probably not the same quality, but a few months ago, I saw Wal-Mart selling a karaoke device that claimed to support auto-tuning. My aversion to the idea of a home karaoke device fought off my geek tech curiosity, though, so I couldn't bring myself to plunk down the $80 (or whatever it was) to take it home and try it out.
...and if we ban driving altogether, all 20 will survive.
Seriously, quantitative decisions about "how much bad" to allow almost never solve problems. We need to think about lateral solutions to the problem, like "how to ensure that children can't get into that situation."
I know the type. Fifty years ago, he would have been one of those guys that had a fuse blow, and since he didn't have a fuse on hand, stuck a penny in the fuse socket "just until the hardware store opens up on Monday," i.e., until someone buys the house thirty years later.
My brother-in-law bought a nice, old house in a small town a few years ago, for a really reasonable price. It was owned by an appliance dealer, who...ahem...did all his own wiring.... (You can tell by the background music where the monster is hiding, can't you?)
$15,000 later, it probably won't burn down from electrical causes.
Dunno... Python seemed to be fast enough for Freedom Force, the Humongous Backyard Sports games, and Ultima Online.
The oldest Yakov Smirnoff I remember distinctly was "In America, you can always find a party; in Russia, party always finds you", but I think that the television one was contemporary.
Yes, but the whole tenor of a press conference is different from Prime Minister's Questions sessions. In a press conference, the president is running the show. He says when it's over, he picks who can ask the questions, and in general, he is in charge. In Questions, the show is run (IIRC) by the leader of the opposition party, and the PM doesn't have a say in whose question he gets to dodge^H^H^H^H^Hanswer next.
I did, and noted your excellent use of irony in my reply.
I was going to post my message to the parent, but I just had to give you accolades for that comment.
Oh, the irony...
CSPAN does cover the HoC on occasion. Having seen both the U.S. Congress and the House of Commons on CSPAN, I can definitely say that watching the HoC is infinitely more entertaining than watching my own congress. They're more concise, less constrained by false decorum, and not afraid to call 'bullshit' when needed.
The idea that Mr. Blair has to periodically submit himself to fairly brutal question-and-answer sessions there is something that I wish we could implement in the U.S.