Really, saying 'meetings are bad for you' is just a way for psychology to have influence over business management.
Whats bad for you is over-psychologizing about all sorts of things.. thats definitely bad for you.
Meetings are good for people who have to work together and coordinate things together, and good meetings result in happy, productive people. Its quite possible to have bad, cheesy, Office-Space style meetings that go nowhere, but its equally possible to have effective management of meetings so that in fact, work gets done.
If all you do is sit around in the meeting room, psychologizing about things, then you'll definitely come out crapped out. Get work done, communicate effectively, use meetings as a proper tool. Then you'll feel good..
hell yeah.. all through the 90's i had high hopes that SGI and Apple would at least work together.. for the longest time, i was hoping, praying, practically slaying goats, that Apple would help SGI make a laptop worth purchasing.
then Apple released the Powerbook, and it was all over. my room full of SGI boxen: replaced with a single powerbook. granted, they were all Indy's, and granted, i wasn't doing much in the high-power end of the SGI spectrum, but godamnit i wish SGI would pull out of whatever death spiral they're in this year and release a laptop to kick the powerbooks' ass..
problem is: form factor. show me a laptop as smooth, slim, and well-designed as the powerbook, and i'll switch. every single other PC laptop i've looked at has been bloaty, or plastic, or cheap-looking.. whereas the powerbook just slides into everything i put it in..
Anyone know what the projected Euro price is going to be? My girlfriend has been waiting for this release before she buys herself a laptop (she's a pro photographer) and its definitely going to be top of the list..
Man, dunno how i'm gonna feel on my lowly powerbook though.. how do you other geeks deal with girlfriends whose laptops are better than yours? aarrgghh...:)
having watched about 30 video's on the gp2x' screen, i can tell you that its wonderful to be able to have such a portable, light, bed-friendly device around at all times. its at least as good as my TV.
and with my new TV Out cable, i can get 720x480 video playback..
dude, i'm white, i can talk about whitey all i like. far as i'm concerned, fat lazy white bastards are ruining the country with their homogeneity and their cultural bias against anything they can't see on TV. yes, i truly believe this, no, i'm not a racist: white is a state of mind. black too, yo!
Huh ? One of the big problems in Australia is there are _too many_ skilled people leaving the country because the wages are relatively low and taxation is relatively high.
one of the big problems in Australia is laziness and consumption. consumerism blows! go do some real work, i say, and yeah.. you know for every "wage-whiner", there are at least 1,000 other human beings who will happily do twice the work for half the pay. get over it, its the new world order, either travel or die!
Disclaimer: I'm an Australian, born and bred in one of Australia's most unique spots, but as soon as I was able to work, I left Australia.. and have been making my living, ever since, as a programmer, outside Australia.
You want to make money as a programmer, have a wonderful life, and do something worthwhile? Go to a 3rd world country and teach them to write code.
The world needs far less nationalism, far less 'right to my nations lifestyle', and far less elitism. The world needs more cooperation, more participation between cultures, and more direct influence on the ability of the poor, by the well-educated, such that equality does occur. Complaining about 'migrants taking our jobs' is the most narrow-minded, stupid, un-educated point of view in this modern age of technological wonder; living in a village with your laptop and giving the local kids a logon so you can learn their language properly is a far, far greater way to spend ones life.
I can't stand the 'lifestyle trap' that Australians think they have a God-given right to. Australia never, ever belonged to whitey. To my Australian compatriates, I say, get the hell out of town and live a little.. your lifestyle is the problem. The world needs you to leave.
ermm.. what're you talking about? science has been used, continually, as an authoritarian means of control for millenia. it is a primary fault of science that it is unable to cure itself of this fact.
i would say because dyne:bolic is more 'multimedia-oriented' than knoppix, which is still fairly generic/general purpose.
with dyne:bolic, any PC becomes a multimedia production studio in a heartbeat (well, bootup, anyway), and you really can get to creating with it fast and easily.. this is important in this day of "iWhatever" style apps being churned out by the big-nerds, so i'd wager thats why dyne:bolic is being pitched, in lieu of knoppix.
which isn't to say knoppix isn't cool.. but its certainly not the first, nor the last, linux-booting liveCD with productivity tools on it (far as i can remember, yggdrasil was first..)
You think all those PowerPC computing systems are just going to stup running because Apple doesn't care about them any more? Forget it, thats such fanboix marketdroid glib.
Fact is, those machines still represent a sizable market to YDL. Long after they're abandoned by Apple, all of those PPC chips could be pressed into using Linux..
and i get 3 to 4 hours of use out of it, depending on what i'm doing with it.. more than ample time to charge sets, take a break, keep playing/using. and i've got no problems with AA's.. at least this way, if you need to, you can pick up AA's and keep playing for a few hours while you wait for a re-load at the household socket, where it belongs.
i.e. built-in rechargeables would tether you to the thing while it charges, duh.. you -don't- want that, because its a portable device...
anyway, i love mine, ordered a few more for gifts, they're just a too great little device for the price.
i've got 2600ma's in mine.. and i get about 4 hours, max, of watching my girl play impossible mission on it. the GP2x, quite frankly, rocks.. its become more 'fun' than the powerbook, and that was already covering great territory.
1) The cpus are both going at full processor speed. They should turn off or throttle down when not in use.
this is up to the programmer. note that some of the gp2xdev's are doing this in their apps now, so programmers really do have full control of how they use the processor/power system. expect grand funk with this, i'd say.
2) TV out is also always running and using up power. .. also fixable in software, and there are already many leaps and bounds with the firmware/hacking/fixing by the community, so there is a lot of faith in this as a 'new platform' which supports upgrades/fixes/extremely cool hacks.
i'm gonna order a couple more in february, they're quite simply great boxes. i've got MIDI hacked up on mine, thanks to the ext2 samsung/e810 phone cable market (cheeap, available in train stations!)...
.. how many times the same code appears with different function names (i.e. how plagued by NIH are you)?.. how many times the same function_name() appears with different code?.. how much of the code fails to compile?
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Really, saying 'meetings are bad for you' is just a way for psychology to have influence over business management.
.. thats definitely bad for you.
..
Whats bad for you is over-psychologizing about all sorts of things
Meetings are good for people who have to work together and coordinate things together, and good meetings result in happy, productive people. Its quite possible to have bad, cheesy, Office-Space style meetings that go nowhere, but its equally possible to have effective management of meetings so that in fact, work gets done.
If all you do is sit around in the meeting room, psychologizing about things, then you'll definitely come out crapped out. Get work done, communicate effectively, use meetings as a proper tool. Then you'll feel good
hell yeah .. all through the 90's i had high hopes that SGI and Apple would at least work together .. for the longest time, i was hoping, praying, practically slaying goats, that Apple would help SGI make a laptop worth purchasing.
..
then Apple released the Powerbook, and it was all over. my room full of SGI boxen: replaced with a single powerbook. granted, they were all Indy's, and granted, i wasn't doing much in the high-power end of the SGI spectrum, but godamnit i wish SGI would pull out of whatever death spiral they're in this year and release a laptop to kick the powerbooks' ass
problem is: form factor. show me a laptop as smooth, slim, and well-designed as the powerbook, and i'll switch. every single other PC laptop i've looked at has been bloaty, or plastic, or cheap-looking .. whereas the powerbook just slides into everything i put it in..
i need that, honest.
Anyone know what the projected Euro price is going to be? My girlfriend has been waiting for this release before she buys herself a laptop (she's a pro photographer) and its definitely going to be top of the list ..
.. how do you other geeks deal with girlfriends whose laptops are better than yours? aarrgghh ... :)
Man, dunno how i'm gonna feel on my lowly powerbook though
having watched about 30 video's on the gp2x' screen, i can tell you that its wonderful to be able to have such a portable, light, bed-friendly device around at all times. its at least as good as my TV.
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and with my new TV Out cable, i can get 720x480 video playback
[disclaimer: i own two GP2X's
Nice to see your racist colours shining through.
dude, i'm white, i can talk about whitey all i like. far as i'm concerned, fat lazy white bastards are ruining the country with their homogeneity and their cultural bias against anything they can't see on TV. yes, i truly believe this, no, i'm not a racist: white is a state of mind. black too, yo!
Huh ? One of the big problems in Australia is there are _too many_ skilled people leaving the country because the wages are relatively low and taxation is relatively high.
one of the big problems in Australia is laziness and consumption. consumerism blows! go do some real work, i say, and yeah
The GP2X can play music, watch video's, and also display books for reading, is cheap, and 100% open. I got a laptop too (powerbook) but lately when I've got something to tote, I load up the GP2X and off I go .. very easy, very fun...
Disclaimer: I'm an Australian, born and bred in one of Australia's most unique spots, but as soon as I was able to work, I left Australia .. and have been making my living, ever since, as a programmer, outside Australia.
.. your lifestyle is the problem. The world needs you to leave.
You want to make money as a programmer, have a wonderful life, and do something worthwhile? Go to a 3rd world country and teach them to write code.
The world needs far less nationalism, far less 'right to my nations lifestyle', and far less elitism. The world needs more cooperation, more participation between cultures, and more direct influence on the ability of the poor, by the well-educated, such that equality does occur. Complaining about 'migrants taking our jobs' is the most narrow-minded, stupid, un-educated point of view in this modern age of technological wonder; living in a village with your laptop and giving the local kids a logon so you can learn their language properly is a far, far greater way to spend ones life.
I can't stand the 'lifestyle trap' that Australians think they have a God-given right to. Australia never, ever belonged to whitey. To my Australian compatriates, I say, get the hell out of town and live a little
ermm .. what're you talking about? science has been used, continually, as an authoritarian means of control for millenia. it is a primary fault of science that it is unable to cure itself of this fact.
i would say because dyne:bolic is more 'multimedia-oriented' than knoppix, which is still fairly generic/general purpose.
.. this is important in this day of "iWhatever" style apps being churned out by the big-nerds, so i'd wager thats why dyne:bolic is being pitched, in lieu of knoppix.
.. but its certainly not the first, nor the last, linux-booting liveCD with productivity tools on it (far as i can remember, yggdrasil was first..)
with dyne:bolic, any PC becomes a multimedia production studio in a heartbeat (well, bootup, anyway), and you really can get to creating with it fast and easily
which isn't to say knoppix isn't cool
You think all those PowerPC computing systems are just going to stup running because Apple doesn't care about them any more? Forget it, thats such fanboix marketdroid glib.
..
Fact is, those machines still represent a sizable market to YDL. Long after they're abandoned by Apple, all of those PPC chips could be pressed into using Linux
the earth was the telephone. to god.
and i get 3 to 4 hours of use out of it, depending on what i'm doing with it .. more than ample time to charge sets, take a break, keep playing/using. and i've got no problems with AA's .. at least this way, if you need to, you can pick up AA's and keep playing for a few hours while you wait for a re-load at the household socket, where it belongs.
.. you -don't- want that, because its a portable device ...
i.e. built-in rechargeables would tether you to the thing while it charges, duh
anyway, i love mine, ordered a few more for gifts, they're just a too great little device for the price.
There's a bunch of replacement skins available so you don't have to deal with "Loading: Please Waiting" screens. :)
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yeah, i've got the monty python skin on mine, its some lovely foot-stomping fun, and is a wonderful place to put monty python, in my opinion
i've got 2600ma's in mine
1) The cpus are both going at full processor speed. They should turn off or throttle down when not in use.
this is up to the programmer. note that some of the gp2xdev's are doing this in their apps now, so programmers really do have full control of how they use the processor/power system. expect grand funk with this, i'd say.
2) TV out is also always running and using up power.
i'm gonna order a couple more in february, they're quite simply great boxes. i've got MIDI hacked up on mine, thanks to the ext2 samsung/e810 phone cable market (cheeap, available in train stations!)
well i asked the mouse, and they said "its gods phone number, duh, just ask deep thought, you pathetic human.." ..
I for one welcome our new rock steering wormy overlords.
.. bring it on ..
me too
well i haven't read much Nagarjuna, if any at all, and i agree with him, so maybe .. i get it?
[what is it, btw, and is it pretty?]
.. no gp2x?
.. this is the hand-held linux portable machine de-jour...
i mean, you can't beat the last 3 weeks worth of nice, adventurous, linux-like hacking the gp2x has had done for it, nossir.. way ahead of the pack.
.. as this machine is. And yes, this machine is very, very easy to port to .. it was designed to be so..
.. is is this one ...
.. how many times the same code appears with different function names (i.e. how plagued by NIH are you)? .. how many times the same function_name() appears with different code? .. how much of the code fails to compile?
no. ask me again in 6 months.
i can see plenty of reasons why this is a puff piece, designed to distract from the truth ...
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the game industry is full of posers, tho'