Leave rude voicemails for them. Have a friend use a payphone to do it. Believe me, once the whole office hears her listen to a message from last night's one-night stand, she won't be afraid to mess up her hair.
RedHat hasn't been IBM's favorite lately. All the IBMers I deal with run SUSE now, but they're enterprise consultants. Maybe the education group is still a RedHat fan.
I've never used a better pocket portable device for typing documents than a Psion Series 3a (or later a 3c). I've since used a Psion Series 5, a Windows CE clamshell, a Palm Zire 71 with an external keyboard and none of them could keep up. If all I did was type docs and couldn't carry a laptop, I'd carry a Series 3a (or look at an Apple eMate).
Yeah, and you don't get to be that way by employing dead wood.
I've been through about 6 rounds of layoffs. Not once did I look at who we cut and consider them all dead wood. Sure, some choices made sense, but at least a third of the people were painful to lose.
Interestingly, PCMag's John C. Dvorak predicted this for 2004-2005.
03.18.03... Prediction: Apple Computer Corp. will switch to Intel processors within the next 12 to 18 months.
He predicted they'd switch between March 2004 and September 2004. Not June 2005.
My Athlon 64 desktop, file server, print server, DVR
My Dell laptop from work
Wife's Dell laptop
5 y/o daughter's laptop
When I get time, I'm adding a small wireless PC just to stream video to the big TV. My 1.5 y/o son is getting close to being able to use a mouse. I'm waiting for a good deal on a wireless print server.
Yes, all Windows. Shrug. My desk at work has 2 Windows and 3 Linux boxes if that makes it any better.
I used to have a SparcStation, an old Mac, an OpenBSD firewall, a Linux fileserver, a pair of DNS/email/web hosts, etc. but the management time and the heat just wasn't worth it.
Part of the reason I bailed on my PhD was that one of my profs was an editor for one of the big journals. I probably reviewed a couple dozen papers a year and saw how tit-for-tat things could be. An unknown with a good paper could still get published but a incrementally improvement by one of the big research schools was always rated higher than it should have been. The papers aren't written for most of the audience anyways; they're written to impress reviewers. So that's one reason I don't read them.
The other is that they just aren't that relevant to my career. I once heard cutting-edge software engineering literature called "intellectual porn". Just like porn, all the little imperfections are smoothed over and if you read enough of it you believe that every company (or girl) is perfect and yours is the only one that's this messed up. Talk to guys that have been around (jobs or girls) and they'll tell you that they're all messed up. The ones that look perfect are the worst of all.
Personally I try to keep up with trends that have caught on. I didn't jump on Agile or Extreme Programming even though parts of it sounded good. Over the last several years I've learned Java, Photoshop, ASP, Perl, JSP, Flash, UML, Design Patterns, J2EE, and now DotNet. Not once did I pick up a journal article for those, but just looking at job postings, resumes, and the shelves at mega bookstores will show you what's hot. Sure you'll be a little behind the curve. If you want to stay in front of it, get to DotNet or Java user groups and watch the respective web sites to keep up with the up-and-coming features.
I once hacked up the resources for Minesweeper to swap the "4" and "5" bitmaps. A guy in my office was ready to report the bug to Microsoft before we all lost it. He refused to believe us until I showed him how I did it.
I guess we're on the cutting edge here. We just have a pile of Paid Time Off days and you use them for whatever. Sick days, Star Wars, etc. They're my days so nobody should care if I use them on a sick kid or a bad movie.
First I try to "loan" things like that to other geeks. I know it's hard, but try to find a single geek. He'll probably still have it 5 years from now if you need it back.
Or my other option is to smuggle it into work and put it in / on an empty desk, especially right after someone leaves the company. Problem solved.
The actor, in his role-playing, recited lines to condemn Jesus Christ to death.
And at least once a year almost every church has someone do the same thing. And someone pretends to be Jesus more often that that.
I grew up playing RPGs and I'm fine with my kids watching Harry Potter and playing whatever games they're into as they get older. I'd struggle with letting my kids play GTA until they're a bit older but I know they know what's pretend and what isn't.
On the other hand, I can't judge fellow Christians who want to shield their kids from everything. I want to, but I shouldn't. It's their choice as parents. I'd advise a lot of, but not all, parents to trust their kids to do the right thing. If you raise them right, no RPG or CCG or video game is going to warp their minds. That's what the 6 o'clock news is for.
I use the Bonzai too. I use it with the large SD card in my Palm. That way I can keep all my portable data in one place and work with it from the Palm, my work laptop or desktop, home desktop, or any other machine I come across.
What else could Amazon have in mind? Amazon has a large distribution system, but's more centralized than Netflix's. What if Amazon wants to stage popular books at Netflix facilities to get quicker shipping? What if Amazon wants to rent books or CDs (ending up in a court battle)?
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Leave rude voicemails for them. Have a friend use a payphone to do it. Believe me, once the whole office hears her listen to a message from last night's one-night stand, she won't be afraid to mess up her hair.
This is vaguely related to how Lotus Notes used to use changing hieroglyphics to prevent spoofing of dialog boxes. http://www.encode-sec.com/pdf/esa0101.pdf
My church / preschool makes them themselves from high quality plywood and hardware. They've outlasted plenty of commercial furniture.
RedHat hasn't been IBM's favorite lately. All the IBMers I deal with run SUSE now, but they're enterprise consultants. Maybe the education group is still a RedHat fan.
I searched monster.com for "Novell". 904 entries.
I searched monster.com for "RedHat". 336 entries.
Oh, and on the Series 3 devices, the non-backlit screen is much clearer.
I've never used a better pocket portable device for typing documents than a Psion Series 3a (or later a 3c). I've since used a Psion Series 5, a Windows CE clamshell, a Palm Zire 71 with an external keyboard and none of them could keep up. If all I did was type docs and couldn't carry a laptop, I'd carry a Series 3a (or look at an Apple eMate).
I've been through about 6 rounds of layoffs. Not once did I look at who we cut and consider them all dead wood. Sure, some choices made sense, but at least a third of the people were painful to lose.
He predicted they'd switch between March 2004 and September 2004. Not June 2005.
- My Athlon 64 desktop, file server, print server, DVR
- My Dell laptop from work
- Wife's Dell laptop
- 5 y/o daughter's laptop
When I get time, I'm adding a small wireless PC just to stream video to the big TV. My 1.5 y/o son is getting close to being able to use a mouse. I'm waiting for a good deal on a wireless print server.Yes, all Windows. Shrug. My desk at work has 2 Windows and 3 Linux boxes if that makes it any better.
I used to have a SparcStation, an old Mac, an OpenBSD firewall, a Linux fileserver, a pair of DNS/email/web hosts, etc. but the management time and the heat just wasn't worth it.
The other is that they just aren't that relevant to my career. I once heard cutting-edge software engineering literature called "intellectual porn". Just like porn, all the little imperfections are smoothed over and if you read enough of it you believe that every company (or girl) is perfect and yours is the only one that's this messed up. Talk to guys that have been around (jobs or girls) and they'll tell you that they're all messed up. The ones that look perfect are the worst of all.
Personally I try to keep up with trends that have caught on. I didn't jump on Agile or Extreme Programming even though parts of it sounded good. Over the last several years I've learned Java, Photoshop, ASP, Perl, JSP, Flash, UML, Design Patterns, J2EE, and now DotNet. Not once did I pick up a journal article for those, but just looking at job postings, resumes, and the shelves at mega bookstores will show you what's hot. Sure you'll be a little behind the curve. If you want to stay in front of it, get to DotNet or Java user groups and watch the respective web sites to keep up with the up-and-coming features.
I once hacked up the resources for Minesweeper to swap the "4" and "5" bitmaps. A guy in my office was ready to report the bug to Microsoft before we all lost it. He refused to believe us until I showed him how I did it.
I guess we're on the cutting edge here. We just have a pile of Paid Time Off days and you use them for whatever. Sick days, Star Wars, etc. They're my days so nobody should care if I use them on a sick kid or a bad movie.
Or my other option is to smuggle it into work and put it in / on an empty desk, especially right after someone leaves the company. Problem solved.
And I remember PLATO running on Control Data 721's.
One Mississippi.
Two Mississippi.
Three Mississippi.
And at least once a year almost every church has someone do the same thing. And someone pretends to be Jesus more often that that.
I grew up playing RPGs and I'm fine with my kids watching Harry Potter and playing whatever games they're into as they get older. I'd struggle with letting my kids play GTA until they're a bit older but I know they know what's pretend and what isn't.
On the other hand, I can't judge fellow Christians who want to shield their kids from everything. I want to, but I shouldn't. It's their choice as parents. I'd advise a lot of, but not all, parents to trust their kids to do the right thing. If you raise them right, no RPG or CCG or video game is going to warp their minds. That's what the 6 o'clock news is for.
I just ripped this comment out of our code today: // close the file
closeFile();
Yeah, but those 15% are mostly old people that vote.
Heck, in 1993 I was doing: /dev/audio' > /dev/audio
rsh otherlab 'cat
on our SunOS boxes and listening to microphones.
Perhaps. I tossed almost all of my 3.5" floppies (which are 1.44MB) about 7 years ago. I've had boxes full since around 1989.
There is a non-vinegar cured silicone for electronic work.
The Bonzai is the world's smallest SD card reader. That's it's best use.
I use the Bonzai too. I use it with the large SD card in my Palm. That way I can keep all my portable data in one place and work with it from the Palm, my work laptop or desktop, home desktop, or any other machine I come across.
What else could Amazon have in mind? Amazon has a large distribution system, but's more centralized than Netflix's. What if Amazon wants to stage popular books at Netflix facilities to get quicker shipping? What if Amazon wants to rent books or CDs (ending up in a court battle)?