It really depends on what you are doing. In my case, I write code all day and almost never have to deal with customers except over the phone if I'm trying to get input to debug something.
If I had to meet with customers, they would tell me before hand so I could change into proper attire to meeting a client.
But in the meantime, jeans and a t-shirt works just fine as long as there are no holes and dirt and such on them.
Long hair shouldn't make any difference at all. We have several people here where I work with long hair and they have met with clients and there has never ever been a problem with it.
The article had some rather strange statements about casual dress costing the employers money. How does that cost them money? They don't have to buy the clothes and then jeans and a t-shirt costs a hell of a lot less than a suit!
Someone who understands corporate culture far better than I do care to explain how casual dress costs the company more money?
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Where was this at? Seattle area I hope? I've got some friends out there who are desperate enough do the job wearing whatever they want. The means stark naked or in a full suit of combat armor if just meant they had a job again.
First off, why should people be downloading music files at work? Given that under current law it is illegal, you should definately not be doing it where you can easily be monitored and fired and possibly prosecuted for it.
Not to mention, you should also be doing something productive, not searching and downloading music you didn't pay for. If you want to do that on your own time, fine, but don't be so dumb as to do it at work. Same thing goes for porn, do it at home, not at work.
While I don't agree with the RIAA's tactics and I know they are simply trying to save their dying buisiness model, I do agree that people should not be doing this kind of thing on company time.
First off, you shouldn't bitch about a rejected story. Hundreds are submitted, maybe someone beat you to it.
Also, this is the third time this has been posted to Slashdot, so someone probably weeded it out as duplicate and CmdrTaco didn't know and posted a different submission about it.
I bet it was so much fun, they do reviews like this a lot more often. I know I would if I got paid to try to blow something up.
I remember blowing a power supply on an Apple IIe once as I turned it on. Scared the shit out of me too! Since then I've never had any more trouble with the supplies in Apple's Macintosh computers (which weren't reviewed here, but seem fairly solid nonetheless). I did once get a nice big fucking jolt off of one of their monitors though, numbed my right arm to the elbow and left my right side sore for a couple days from the violent muscle spasm it caused. Had it been my left arm, I probably wouldn't be typing this right now...
As I said, you would have to grow that 20,000 to many hundred thousand.
The reason they voted for Shrub is that Ohio is a very conservative and republican state (I should know, I live there) You might be able to try to push the anti-gun angle that the kind of oppresive regime Bush seems to be working on would have.
But as I said, its a far stretch that you are going to get anywhere in ANY state, be it New York, Arizona, Wyoming or Alaska. You are better off joining one of the many "3rd" parties out there such as the Libertarians or the Green Party, etc. It could work, remember the stir Ross Perot caused? How about Jesse "The Body(or The Mind as he prefers now)" Ventura? He was a nut and he got quite a following. If we could rally behind someone with some money and charisma, there is a far better chance for change and not just in one state, but many.
The weather isn't all that bad, easy access to Canada when you have to flee for your lives and theres a fair amount of industrial and agricultural base built in both states, but the population is still small enough that you might have some impact if you are able to grow that 20,000 to a few hundred thousand over time.
Or how about Alaska? Yes its cold, but you've got oil and gold among other natural resources, if you can get the equipment to drill through the permafrost to get at it.
Personally though, I just don't see this working out no matter what State they go for, you just can't get that many people to work together for that long.
Apparently the subtlety of the humor has escaped you.
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Oh? I'm interested now. What kind of boat?
Just out on a cruise ship?
Did a bunch of MS goons capture him and cast him adrift on the high seas in a dinghy?
Or is he with friends who have put him on a raft floating behind a ship like in Cabin Boy with no food and only seawater to drink until he goes insane and rattles off the source code for the next Kernel?
Or is he really a secret agent and out on a boat right now James Bond style infiltrating the docks at a Microsoft warehouse?
I doubt it, unless they want to use them as cheap Linux boxes given the price of hardware and software over there. But I figure most people will figure, "Hey, if you won't sell here because you don't like our laws, why the hell should be buy from you in the first place?"
They link to the NY Times article about it and even mention Slashdot there. Apple didn't add any of their own digs, but you could just see the monumental smirk that must have been on Steve Job's face when they posted that to the page.
Just great, bad enough I get pop ups in my browser, the possibility of popup spam on the Wintel box at work, but now I may have to put up with pop up sharks from Jaws XI like poor Marty McFly did in Back to the Future.
Seriously though, while this is fairly cool, it could also lead to some extremely annoying street advertisements on the sides of buildings. Its bad enough to have billboards everywhere, but now ones which can actively annoy you in 3D? UGH!
That and maybe all bartenders being replaced by the Max Headroom version of Ronald Reagan.
What I don't understand is why no one has ever filed a suit against theaters, especially the big ones like AMC and Showcase for price gouging at the consession stands.
Since they say you can't bring in your own stuff, forcing someone who say, is hypoglycemic or has a bunch of kids who will make noise unless they have something to shove into their mouths to pay those prices to keep their blood surgar up is tantamount to extortion.
You are right, most of us can't wait, at least those of use with really old Macs (about to retire my Beige G3 in fact). I just ordered one of the Dual 1.25 GHZ machines and that should be more than enough power for me for some time. I'll move up to a 64 bit Mac in 3-5 years when they've worked out the kinks and about the time most people quit making 32 bit apps.
I did at least learn my lesson with the Beige G3 when it comes to jumping onto the latest thing just as it first comes out. While my old Beige G3 Rev A box has been a fairly solid machine for the past 5 years, it does have some serious shortcomings (possible voltage regulator blow out if upgraded to a G4, 66 MHZ bus (ick) and Rev A rom means no IDE slave support!).
I feel fairly confident this possibly last of the line G4 should be fairly solid other than the chips not fully utilizing DDR (at least DMA operations will take advantage of it) and the silly idea of making the second IDE channel only ATA66.
Once the issues of moving to a 64 bit chip and the new Hypertransport bus and such are worked out and my machine starts to look as slow as my Beige G3 is now compared to the latest machines, then I will start itching to move up.
Oh wow, now that brings back some memories! I remember a friend of mine bringing over this ST he got at a garage sale and had a Mac emulator disk on it. Since I was a Mac person and he wasn't he asked me to help him get it running.
We managed to get System 7 running on it and even managed to coax AOL 2.x to run on it via the modem, getting it online! It was slow and it was AOL running on a Mac emulator on an Atari, but hey, it was geeky and it was fun to do.
But back on topic, if they do use the same or similar chip it could possibly work though Sony would DMCA it straight to hell.
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It really depends on what you are doing. In my case, I write code all day and almost never have to deal with customers except over the phone if I'm trying to get input to debug something.
If I had to meet with customers, they would tell me before hand so I could change into proper attire to meeting a client.
But in the meantime, jeans and a t-shirt works just fine as long as there are no holes and dirt and such on them.
Long hair shouldn't make any difference at all. We have several people here where I work with long hair and they have met with clients and there has never ever been a problem with it.
You need the tie to cut off the blood to your brain so you can be in a proper state to understand management's reasoning on things.
The article had some rather strange statements about casual dress costing the employers money. How does that cost them money? They don't have to buy the clothes and then jeans and a t-shirt costs a hell of a lot less than a suit!
Someone who understands corporate culture far better than I do care to explain how casual dress costs the company more money?
Where was this at? Seattle area I hope? I've got some friends out there who are desperate enough do the job wearing whatever they want. The means stark naked or in a full suit of combat armor if just meant they had a job again.
You can legally stream here in the US, but only if you now pay the CARP Royalties, which are crippling.
First off, why should people be downloading music files at work? Given that under current law it is illegal, you should definately not be doing it where you can easily be monitored and fired and possibly prosecuted for it.
Not to mention, you should also be doing something productive, not searching and downloading music you didn't pay for. If you want to do that on your own time, fine, but don't be so dumb as to do it at work. Same thing goes for porn, do it at home, not at work.
While I don't agree with the RIAA's tactics and I know they are simply trying to save their dying buisiness model, I do agree that people should not be doing this kind of thing on company time.
First off, you shouldn't bitch about a rejected story. Hundreds are submitted, maybe someone beat you to it.
Also, this is the third time this has been posted to Slashdot, so someone probably weeded it out as duplicate and CmdrTaco didn't know and posted a different submission about it.
Duplicate articles!
I bet it was so much fun, they do reviews like this a lot more often. I know I would if I got paid to try to blow something up.
I remember blowing a power supply on an Apple IIe once as I turned it on. Scared the shit out of me too! Since then I've never had any more trouble with the supplies in Apple's Macintosh computers (which weren't reviewed here, but seem fairly solid nonetheless). I did once get a nice big fucking jolt off of one of their monitors though, numbed my right arm to the elbow and left my right side sore for a couple days from the violent muscle spasm it caused. Had it been my left arm, I probably wouldn't be typing this right now...
As I said, you would have to grow that 20,000 to many hundred thousand.
The reason they voted for Shrub is that Ohio is a very conservative and republican state (I should know, I live there) You might be able to try to push the anti-gun angle that the kind of oppresive regime Bush seems to be working on would have.
But as I said, its a far stretch that you are going to get anywhere in ANY state, be it New York, Arizona, Wyoming or Alaska. You are better off joining one of the many "3rd" parties out there such as the Libertarians or the Green Party, etc. It could work, remember the stir Ross Perot caused? How about Jesse "The Body(or The Mind as he prefers now)" Ventura? He was a nut and he got quite a following. If we could rally behind someone with some money and charisma, there is a far better chance for change and not just in one state, but many.
The weather isn't all that bad, easy access to Canada when you have to flee for your lives and theres a fair amount of industrial and agricultural base built in both states, but the population is still small enough that you might have some impact if you are able to grow that 20,000 to a few hundred thousand over time.
Or how about Alaska? Yes its cold, but you've got oil and gold among other natural resources, if you can get the equipment to drill through the permafrost to get at it.
Personally though, I just don't see this working out no matter what State they go for, you just can't get that many people to work together for that long.
Apparently the subtlety of the humor has escaped you.
Oh? I'm interested now. What kind of boat?
Just out on a cruise ship?
Did a bunch of MS goons capture him and cast him adrift on the high seas in a dinghy?
Or is he with friends who have put him on a raft floating behind a ship like in Cabin Boy with no food and only seawater to drink until he goes insane and rattles off the source code for the next Kernel?
Or is he really a secret agent and out on a boat right now James Bond style infiltrating the docks at a Microsoft warehouse?
Inquiring minds want to know!
So this is what happens when all those parents spend too much time reading /. and sucking up monitor radiation!
To forbid the sale of anything Microsoft owns. Or at least make it look like they are going to. I bet Microsoft will be the one backpeddling then!
I doubt it, unless they want to use them as cheap Linux boxes given the price of hardware and software over there. But I figure most people will figure, "Hey, if you won't sell here because you don't like our laws, why the hell should be buy from you in the first place?"
is not that they somehow got Fritz Hollings brain into a computer, but that he may yet win!
Will this thing be smart enough to avoid all the legos I have on the floor? :)
Yet the RIAA and MPAA and other pigopolists sure thinks they have that right.
http://www.apple.com/hotnews/
They link to the NY Times article about it and even mention Slashdot there. Apple didn't add any of their own digs, but you could just see the monumental smirk that must have been on Steve Job's face when they posted that to the page.
Just great, bad enough I get pop ups in my browser, the possibility of popup spam on the Wintel box at work, but now I may have to put up with pop up sharks from Jaws XI like poor Marty McFly did in Back to the Future.
Seriously though, while this is fairly cool, it could also lead to some extremely annoying street advertisements on the sides of buildings. Its bad enough to have billboards everywhere, but now ones which can actively annoy you in 3D? UGH!
That and maybe all bartenders being replaced by the Max Headroom version of Ronald Reagan.
What I don't understand is why no one has ever filed a suit against theaters, especially the big ones like AMC and Showcase for price gouging at the consession stands.
Since they say you can't bring in your own stuff, forcing someone who say, is hypoglycemic or has a bunch of kids who will make noise unless they have something to shove into their mouths to pay those prices to keep their blood surgar up is tantamount to extortion.
You are right, most of us can't wait, at least those of use with really old Macs (about to retire my Beige G3 in fact). I just ordered one of the Dual 1.25 GHZ machines and that should be more than enough power for me for some time. I'll move up to a 64 bit Mac in 3-5 years when they've worked out the kinks and about the time most people quit making 32 bit apps.
I did at least learn my lesson with the Beige G3 when it comes to jumping onto the latest thing just as it first comes out. While my old Beige G3 Rev A box has been a fairly solid machine for the past 5 years, it does have some serious shortcomings (possible voltage regulator blow out if upgraded to a G4, 66 MHZ bus (ick) and Rev A rom means no IDE slave support!).
I feel fairly confident this possibly last of the line G4 should be fairly solid other than the chips not fully utilizing DDR (at least DMA operations will take advantage of it) and the silly idea of making the second IDE channel only ATA66.
Once the issues of moving to a 64 bit chip and the new Hypertransport bus and such are worked out and my machine starts to look as slow as my Beige G3 is now compared to the latest machines, then I will start itching to move up.
Oh wow, now that brings back some memories! I remember a friend of mine bringing over this ST he got at a garage sale and had a Mac emulator disk on it. Since I was a Mac person and he wasn't he asked me to help him get it running.
We managed to get System 7 running on it and even managed to coax AOL 2.x to run on it via the modem, getting it online! It was slow and it was AOL running on a Mac emulator on an Atari, but hey, it was geeky and it was fun to do.
But back on topic, if they do use the same or similar chip it could possibly work though Sony would DMCA it straight to hell.