Sounds like I'll be propping up the bank with high fees as opposed to all those sad faceslap, twatter, etc.b*****s who share every piece of cr*p with the world and it's dog.
I don't have a single "social" account,/. is the closest thing I have to social networking! If they bring this in I'll change banks, assuming it gets past all the regulations and anti-competitive restrictions.
Each and every site I sign up to gets a unique e-mail address and all my mail goes through both my gmail account and isp filtering.
While I prefer to have the choice to opt out at sign up (and have that choice respected), this method means I can simply update or remove just one e-mail address and stop the problem should a site not respect my wishes.
Adds a tiny admin. overhead to each sign-up but is worth it
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by the "Gang of Four" (Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides).
Not that there were any main-stream OO languages available when I started programming (mumble) years ago, nor was it written for another decade or more, but...
I use the LBE Security app which allows me to more closely control what I want an app to have access to, it's a bit like a permissions based firewall - you can block specific permissions on each app.
It does result in the odd FC if you tighten it down too far on everything but it's usually possible to find a workable combination. e.g. permit an app to access the phone id. (which it expects to always have access to and which causes it to FC if not) but then block it's access to the network (which cannot always be expected to be available)... so what if it knows the id. if it cannot report it.
My wife cannot watch 3D, old tech. or new, it always gives her a headache and/or makes her nauseous so we won't be getting a 3D tv. When faced with a 3D movie or nothing option at the cinema (usually when taking the kids), she either doesn't wear the glasses or blanks out one len with a piece of paper or card.
We did manage to get a couple of pairs of glasses for our regular cinema and "adapted" them to have two right-hand lenses (doesn't look great but so what) so she can use both eyes but only gets one perspective which means a clear image but no headache. However, as different cinemas use different technologies, we can't use these at all outlets.
We consider 3D to be a gimmick and nothing more - if the movie can't hold its own without having to resort to cheap (or not so cheap) 3D special effects then we're not interested. Case in point - Avatar, nothing more than Dances With Wolves In Space and, just like Dances With Wolves, a thin story line dragged out about an hour too long but with an overdose of animation instead of long wilderness panoramas.
Firing up the way back machine... I never understood the rationale behind the drag the floppy to the bin to eject it functionality on the old Apple Macs (late 80's, early 90's) - made no sense to me at all, suggested formatting rather than ejecting.
Is it the same for CD/DVD, I haven't used Apple for many years?
Sadly, your level of care and consideration about what you post on FB is very much in the minority, I suspect the very vast majority don't even give such ideas a second (or even first) thought.
'bout time we had some legal sanity down here. Now all we need is for bloody Senator Conroy to drop the internet filtering bullshit and we'll all be happy campers.
Interesting, when I originally clicked the second definition link on the m-w page in question nothing happened, I couldn't get to the second one whatever I did so I presumed it to be an erroneous entry (naturally it works now though). I bow to your knowledge and apologise.
However, I do still think the term to be uncommon, I've never heard it myself in Oz or the UK and continue to think it unwise for people to use colloquialisms when there are far more suitable words available that would not cause confusion - your own suggestion of "lots" for example.
Perhaps it is common where you live, but not in the UK or Australia; nor ironically does it mean that in the merriam-webster dictionary that the poster referred to.
If true, this is definately "Double-Plus Un Good", Orwellian England comes closer by the day. This level of nanny state interference deminishes the whole of society by creating an entire generation of citizens who will not only accept the state control but expect it too.
The more we read daily about the way the U.K. is going, the more we thank God that we were amongst the fortunate ones about to escape/emigrate from the place in the nineties for a better life in the land down under. Ok, so Oz isn't doing that well on the censorship rankings at the moment with the proposed internet filter, but we are getting more and more concerned each day about the quality of life and diminishing rights of the family and friends left behind.
I recently got another year (much) closer to my half century - the idea of moving into management makes me shudder, I intend to code until I retire (and beyond probably).
I guess it depends on how you view management. My experience is that they can't avoid the office politics and tend to be the target of much of it too. You say you enjoy management but have you tried all facets of it? Have you had to make the unpopular decisions that all managers have to at some time and do you think you can live with doing that for the rest of your working life.
To be a good manager in the modern IT industry requires you to keep on learning, just as I have to as a coder so don't fool yourself into thinking it will be any easier - it could be harder.
At the end of the day there is no real reason why you should not continue to code until retirement, except those reasons you create yourself; besides, there could be other better opportunities waiting round the corner.
Do what makes you happy and you feel comfortable with - if you're feeling uncomfortable and threatened by the up and coming younger developers then perhaps it's time to move on but it doesn't have to be that way.
I don't believe that you are permitted to do that in either Oz or the UK. It is possible to get a bayonet type plugs which will fit light socket, but the practice is frowned upon at best and voids your home insurance at worst. Yes, here in Oz, if you do any electrical work yourself and it fails - causing a fire - tough, you're now uninsured; all must be done by a licensed electrician.
As for separate power and lighting circuits, ?!?!? Don't lights require power? It's not like all the wall outlets are on one circuit, and all the lights on another, if that's what you mean. That's exactly what I mean. The terminology of "power circuits and lighting circuits" is a direct indication of the distinction of the two, here in Oz and in the UK at least, one is a circuit for lighting only and once for general power (wall) outlets.
In the UK (where I'm originally from), floors of a property (in general, unless large) each have one ring main for the wall sockets (from memory - 15 years ago - 30amp) and one lighting circuit (10amp), each individually breakered or fused at the distibution board - they must be completely separate. Very high load appliances, such as electric water heaters, ducted air heating and electric cookers (stove), each have their own circuit direct from the board, with their own breaker/fuse (15 or 30amp). ALL other appliances, including washers, dryers, fan room heaters, toaster, irons, kettles and etc., can all happily be plugged into any wall socket in the house and everything runs on 240VAC 50Hz.
The situation is similar here in Oz, except that the predominance of the single storey home means that the property tends to be divided notionally in half (front/back or living/sleeping) for the power circuit at least, sometines the lights too, with individual heavy load circuits only for the things like the pool and air-con. Again all is 240VAC 50Hz, and once again the lighting and power circuits are required to be totally separate from each other from the distribution board onwards - never the twain shall meet.
In both cases, since the lighing circuits only feed the lights in the house, it would be impossible to plug anything high load into the light sockets as these have only light bulb bayonet (or screw) fittings, which the power plugs could never fit. Stand-alone lamps can, of course, be safely plugged into the wall power outlets. The problem of drawing too much current from a lighting circuit cannot occur without intentional misuse of something.
Most modern houses do not come with a ceiling light as standard You have got to be kidding me, that is nuts?!?! So what is to stop someone plugging a high drain item into the lighting circuit and overloading it? Or don't they have the concept of separate power and lighting circuits?
The M2 mail client in Opera is often overlooked but makes an excellent product even better. The Notes-like approach of having a single repository for all the e-mail but viewing (or filtering) it from any direction is one of its most powerful features in my opinion - it makes searching for e-mails blisteringly fast, even when you have ten years worth like I do. The 9.50 version improves this even further again.
No, more like "think of the parents". We also have young children and, since our state government decided to introduce D.S.T. here earlier this year (Western Australia), we've had hell's own job getting them down at a reasonable time because it's still light so we're losing time or sleep overall.
Additionally, the old rule of keeping out of the sun between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. becomes 11 to 4 during D.S.T. so all the kids have to be covered in sun-block before going out to play after school, whereas they previously could just have quick smear of sun scream. We've also found the house to be hotter in the evenings when we get home, so use more power on the air-con.
The idea of spending more time out doing other activities is a myth too - it might happen for a week or so but will rapidly wear off to the old regime as people realise that they still only have the same 24 hours to get everything done that they had before. The whole concept of D.S.T. sucks, it saves nothing, just moves it around - pick a time zone and stick to it - the sun does.
The state government here, ignoring the last three referendum results, decided to foist D.S.T. ("just a trial!") upon us since Christmas(-ish) whether we wanted it or not, in the misguided hope we'd all go for it when they ask us (again) at the next state election.
One of the effects they overlooked is that, now everyone is getting home an hour earlier, the power generation companies are finding demand surging in the late afternoon to even higher levels (almost unsustainable) as we all turn on our air-con when we get home... 'cos it's an hour hotter!
Given that we've had multiple 45C (113F) days this year, I think the trial is going to be a dead loss and may even be canned early - one can only hope.
I configure one e-mail address per site/usage for my domain, named accordingly but with an 'anti-guess' element e.g. slashdot-123@... This way, if I start to get spam on any address, I can simply reconfigure that single address on my domain and change the address at the one site (or delete it altogether if I no longer require it) and, voila, no more spam or unwanted mail.
It adds about two minutes extra to the registration process for a site, but it's worth it. Of course, using an I.S.P. with good spam/virus/etc. filtering helps too!
When we moved here from the U.K. some ten years ago, it was a case of "The Aussies will be ok, they've never pi**ed anyone off, who'd want to bother them".
These days, however, we have good old Johnny Howard getting up close and personal with Shrub and Blair, pi**ing everybody off and making us almost as big a target as all the other Iraq invaders. Nice one Johnny.
These days the Kiwi's islands are looking a far better and safer bet.
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Sounds like I'll be propping up the bank with high fees as opposed to all those sad faceslap, twatter, etc.b*****s who share every piece of cr*p with the world and it's dog.
/. is the closest thing I have to social networking! If they bring this in I'll change banks, assuming it gets past all the regulations and anti-competitive restrictions.
I don't have a single "social" account,
Each and every site I sign up to gets a unique e-mail address and all my mail goes through both my gmail account and isp filtering.
While I prefer to have the choice to opt out at sign up (and have that choice respected), this method means I can simply update or remove just one e-mail address and stop the problem should a site not respect my wishes.
Adds a tiny admin. overhead to each sign-up but is worth it
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by the "Gang of Four" (Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides).
Not that there were any main-stream OO languages available when I started programming (mumble) years ago, nor was it written for another decade or more, but...
I use the LBE Security app which allows me to more closely control what I want an app to have access to, it's a bit like a permissions based firewall - you can block specific permissions on each app. It does result in the odd FC if you tighten it down too far on everything but it's usually possible to find a workable combination. e.g. permit an app to access the phone id. (which it expects to always have access to and which causes it to FC if not) but then block it's access to the network (which cannot always be expected to be available)... so what if it knows the id. if it cannot report it.
My wife cannot watch 3D, old tech. or new, it always gives her a headache and/or makes her nauseous so we won't be getting a 3D tv. When faced with a 3D movie or nothing option at the cinema (usually when taking the kids), she either doesn't wear the glasses or blanks out one len with a piece of paper or card.
We did manage to get a couple of pairs of glasses for our regular cinema and "adapted" them to have two right-hand lenses (doesn't look great but so what) so she can use both eyes but only gets one perspective which means a clear image but no headache. However, as different cinemas use different technologies, we can't use these at all outlets.
We consider 3D to be a gimmick and nothing more - if the movie can't hold its own without having to resort to cheap (or not so cheap) 3D special effects then we're not interested. Case in point - Avatar, nothing more than Dances With Wolves In Space and, just like Dances With Wolves, a thin story line dragged out about an hour too long but with an overdose of animation instead of long wilderness panoramas.
Firing up the way back machine... I never understood the rationale behind the drag the floppy to the bin to eject it functionality on the old Apple Macs (late 80's, early 90's) - made no sense to me at all, suggested formatting rather than ejecting. Is it the same for CD/DVD, I haven't used Apple for many years?
Sadly, your level of care and consideration about what you post on FB is very much in the minority, I suspect the very vast majority don't even give such ideas a second (or even first) thought.
'bout time we had some legal sanity down here. Now all we need is for bloody Senator Conroy to drop the internet filtering bullshit and we'll all be happy campers.
Interesting, when I originally clicked the second definition link on the m-w page in question nothing happened, I couldn't get to the second one whatever I did so I presumed it to be an erroneous entry (naturally it works now though). I bow to your knowledge and apologise. However, I do still think the term to be uncommon, I've never heard it myself in Oz or the UK and continue to think it unwise for people to use colloquialisms when there are far more suitable words available that would not cause confusion - your own suggestion of "lots" for example.
Perhaps it is common where you live, but not in the UK or Australia; nor ironically does it mean that in the merriam-webster dictionary that the poster referred to.
Perhaps what the poster was trying to say was...
How does "any of several carangid fishes (especially of the genus Decapterus)" act in the role of a numerator in the context.
Perhaps the OP should also learn to use a dictionary too, I also thought WTF when I saw "scads" used as it was.
If true, this is definately "Double-Plus Un Good", Orwellian England comes closer by the day. This level of nanny state interference deminishes the whole of society by creating an entire generation of citizens who will not only accept the state control but expect it too.
The more we read daily about the way the U.K. is going, the more we thank God that we were amongst the fortunate ones about to escape/emigrate from the place in the nineties for a better life in the land down under. Ok, so Oz isn't doing that well on the censorship rankings at the moment with the proposed internet filter, but we are getting more and more concerned each day about the quality of life and diminishing rights of the family and friends left behind.
I recently got another year (much) closer to my half century - the idea of moving into management makes me shudder, I intend to code until I retire (and beyond probably).
I guess it depends on how you view management. My experience is that they can't avoid the office politics and tend to be the target of much of it too. You say you enjoy management but have you tried all facets of it? Have you had to make the unpopular decisions that all managers have to at some time and do you think you can live with doing that for the rest of your working life.
To be a good manager in the modern IT industry requires you to keep on learning, just as I have to as a coder so don't fool yourself into thinking it will be any easier - it could be harder.
At the end of the day there is no real reason why you should not continue to code until retirement, except those reasons you create yourself; besides, there could be other better opportunities waiting round the corner.
Do what makes you happy and you feel comfortable with - if you're feeling uncomfortable and threatened by the up and coming younger developers then perhaps it's time to move on but it doesn't have to be that way.
Yawn... been waiting for the collage for about ten minutes so far but the progress bar seems stuck at 0%.
I wonder if it has something to do with the unchecked "Enable JavaScript" checkbox I have displayed at the bottom of my Opera 10 window.
I don't believe that you are permitted to do that in either Oz or the UK. It is possible to get a bayonet type plugs which will fit light socket, but the practice is frowned upon at best and voids your home insurance at worst. Yes, here in Oz, if you do any electrical work yourself and it fails - causing a fire - tough, you're now uninsured; all must be done by a licensed electrician.
In the UK (where I'm originally from), floors of a property (in general, unless large) each have one ring main for the wall sockets (from memory - 15 years ago - 30amp) and one lighting circuit (10amp), each individually breakered or fused at the distibution board - they must be completely separate. Very high load appliances, such as electric water heaters, ducted air heating and electric cookers (stove), each have their own circuit direct from the board, with their own breaker/fuse (15 or 30amp). ALL other appliances, including washers, dryers, fan room heaters, toaster, irons, kettles and etc., can all happily be plugged into any wall socket in the house and everything runs on 240VAC 50Hz.
The situation is similar here in Oz, except that the predominance of the single storey home means that the property tends to be divided notionally in half (front/back or living/sleeping) for the power circuit at least, sometines the lights too, with individual heavy load circuits only for the things like the pool and air-con. Again all is 240VAC 50Hz, and once again the lighting and power circuits are required to be totally separate from each other from the distribution board onwards - never the twain shall meet.
In both cases, since the lighing circuits only feed the lights in the house, it would be impossible to plug anything high load into the light sockets as these have only light bulb bayonet (or screw) fittings, which the power plugs could never fit. Stand-alone lamps can, of course, be safely plugged into the wall power outlets. The problem of drawing too much current from a lighting circuit cannot occur without intentional misuse of something.
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The M2 mail client in Opera is often overlooked but makes an excellent product even better. The Notes-like approach of having a single repository for all the e-mail but viewing (or filtering) it from any direction is one of its most powerful features in my opinion - it makes searching for e-mails blisteringly fast, even when you have ten years worth like I do. The 9.50 version improves this even further again.
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No, more like "think of the parents". We also have young children and, since our state government decided to introduce D.S.T. here earlier this year (Western Australia), we've had hell's own job getting them down at a reasonable time because it's still light so we're losing time or sleep overall.
Additionally, the old rule of keeping out of the sun between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. becomes 11 to 4 during D.S.T. so all the kids have to be covered in sun-block before going out to play after school, whereas they previously could just have quick smear of sun scream. We've also found the house to be hotter in the evenings when we get home, so use more power on the air-con.
The idea of spending more time out doing other activities is a myth too - it might happen for a week or so but will rapidly wear off to the old regime as people realise that they still only have the same 24 hours to get everything done that they had before. The whole concept of D.S.T. sucks, it saves nothing, just moves it around - pick a time zone and stick to it - the sun does.
The state government here, ignoring the last three referendum results, decided to foist D.S.T. ("just a trial!") upon us since Christmas(-ish) whether we wanted it or not, in the misguided hope we'd all go for it when they ask us (again) at the next state election.
One of the effects they overlooked is that, now everyone is getting home an hour earlier, the power generation companies are finding demand surging in the late afternoon to even higher levels (almost unsustainable) as we all turn on our air-con when we get home... 'cos it's an hour hotter!
Given that we've had multiple 45C (113F) days this year, I think the trial is going to be a dead loss and may even be canned early - one can only hope.
...you can do it just as easily.
I configure one e-mail address per site/usage for my domain, named accordingly but with an 'anti-guess' element e.g. slashdot-123@... This way, if I start to get spam on any address, I can simply reconfigure that single address on my domain and change the address at the one site (or delete it altogether if I no longer require it) and, voila, no more spam or unwanted mail.
It adds about two minutes extra to the registration process for a site, but it's worth it. Of course, using an I.S.P. with good spam/virus/etc. filtering helps too!
When we moved here from the U.K. some ten years ago, it was a case of "The Aussies will be ok, they've never pi**ed anyone off, who'd want to bother them".
These days, however, we have good old Johnny Howard getting up close and personal with Shrub and Blair, pi**ing everybody off and making us almost as big a target as all the other Iraq invaders. Nice one Johnny.
These days the Kiwi's islands are looking a far better and safer bet.