Especially with regard to/. Speaking plainly, the beta site is fucking awful in and of itself. Forget that discussion systems are broken (or whatever) it's just not Slashdot any more.
Consider your audience, display some regard for their opinions, quit fucking around with the site. End of.
I just don't get this. Chip fabs don't filter water, they force it through reverse osmosis, and then deionize it. It doesn't matter what's in the water to begin with, after that process is complete, there's absolutely nothing left. This story therefore, makes no sense.
If it's a private company, he's defending the interests of the principals.
If it's a public company, he's (rather effectively) defending the interests of his shareholders. A CEO's job is to build shareholder value. It could be inferred that that description would include taking action to prevent loss of value.
The Internet doesn't kill puppies (or kittens) it's your disgusting addiction to masturbation which accomplishes that. Remember, every time you whack off you kill a cute little kitten (or puppy, if you're jerking off in a public toilet)
It's come down to this, then.
I have a broadly comparable experience. I went to school in the 60's in England. Typing was for girls and, not only that, there didn't seem to be any compelling reason to learn the skill anyway since what activity (then) required typing?? Fast forward a good few years and suddenly computers are ubiquitous, typing is considered to be a normal - and essential - skill, and I "can't touch type". By now I lived in the US and discover that this inability represented a serious career handicap. Frustrated and angry (at myself), I bit the bullet and taught myself to touchtype. At almost 40 I found this to be arduous and incredibly difficult, but I stuck with it and finally mastered it. I've been grateful for that ever since (now 12 years later) "keyboarding" is now even more necessary than ever - in just normal everyday life. Add in some geekery and it's a downright essential skill to have. Frankly I'm also privately but immensely proud of the fact that I can bang out 100wpm (Mmmv!) most days. Just my $0.02 worth of contribution to this thread. I just realized in the years of everday/.'ing, this is my first response to a topic!
You could purchase "Laptop Buyers Guide" (usually available in any place that sells large qty's of magazines. However as you said, that still leaves much room for questions owing to the sheer number of models available. So here's my story; In 1995 I bought a Toshiba Satellite Pro, a Pentium 90 machine which is *still* working today! although with a tiny crack in the lid, and owing to a fall (while in it's padded case) a wonky on-again/off-again CRROM. I upgraded the drive to 2GB in 1998 and increased the RAM to the machine max of 40MB. My fiancee now has it at school and uses it every day. In April last year I bought a Tecra 8100 (this reply is being typed on it!). Someone commented on the keyboard layout and yes, there are one or two miniscule issues there, but thos "issues" pale in comparison to the qualities of this awesome machine. It *is* my desktop replacement, I have two docks one at the office and one at home with identical monitors, keyboards, mice speakers etc to avoid driver issues. The thing has a 900MHZ CPU (with a full 512 L2 cache)30GB drive, 512MB of RAM, an awesome graphics card...it's awesome, but simply what I would have expected from Toshiba after the experience of my first one. I've setup IBM machines (for others) and just didn't like em, ditto HP's...I love my Toshiba. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend the brand to *anyone* I bought this when it was just a micron away from bleeding edge and benefitted immensely from the better price. I say "Toshiba all the way, no matter what" Hope this along with the other posts helps you some. It *does* seem that there's quite a few folks out here who feel the same way about Toshiba's that I do....it may perhaps guide you.
A stated on the Opera page; "Opera crashes a bit more now than the previous version" and indeed...it does. I think this is a great step forward, but there's long way to go yet.
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Especially with regard to /.
Speaking plainly, the beta site is fucking awful in and of itself. Forget that discussion systems are broken (or whatever) it's just not Slashdot any more.
Consider your audience, display some regard for their opinions, quit fucking around with the site. End of.
I just don't get this. Chip fabs don't filter water, they force it through reverse osmosis, and then deionize it. It doesn't matter what's in the water to begin with, after that process is complete, there's absolutely nothing left. This story therefore, makes no sense.
I'd say that it makes no difference.
If it's a private company, he's defending the interests of the principals.
If it's a public company, he's (rather effectively) defending the interests of his shareholders. A CEO's job is to build shareholder value. It could be inferred that that description would include taking action to prevent loss of value.
Either way - BRAVO!!
I have a broadly comparable experience. I went to school in the 60's in England. Typing was for girls and, not only that, there didn't seem to be any compelling reason to learn the skill anyway since what activity (then) required typing?? /.'ing, this is my first response to a topic!
Fast forward a good few years and suddenly computers are ubiquitous, typing is considered to be a normal - and essential - skill, and I "can't touch type". By now I lived in the US and discover that this inability represented a serious career handicap.
Frustrated and angry (at myself), I bit the bullet and taught myself to touchtype. At almost 40 I found this to be arduous and incredibly difficult, but I stuck with it and finally mastered it. I've been grateful for that ever since (now 12 years later) "keyboarding" is now even more necessary than ever - in just normal everyday life. Add in some geekery and it's a downright essential skill to have.
Frankly I'm also privately but immensely proud of the fact that I can bang out 100wpm (Mmmv!) most days.
Just my $0.02 worth of contribution to this thread. I just realized in the years of everday
You could purchase "Laptop Buyers Guide" (usually available in any place that sells large qty's of magazines. However as you said, that still leaves much room for questions owing to the sheer number of models available.
So here's my story;
In 1995 I bought a Toshiba Satellite Pro, a Pentium 90 machine which is *still* working today! although with a tiny crack in the lid, and owing to a fall (while in it's padded case) a wonky on-again/off-again CRROM. I upgraded the drive to 2GB in 1998 and increased the RAM to the machine max of 40MB. My fiancee now has it at school and uses it every day.
In April last year I bought a Tecra 8100 (this reply is being typed on it!). Someone commented on the keyboard layout and yes, there are one or two miniscule issues there, but thos "issues" pale in comparison to the qualities of this awesome machine.
It *is* my desktop replacement, I have two docks one at the office and one at home with identical monitors, keyboards, mice speakers etc to avoid driver issues.
The thing has a 900MHZ CPU (with a full 512 L2 cache)30GB drive, 512MB of RAM, an awesome graphics card...it's awesome, but simply what I would have expected from Toshiba after the experience of my first one.
I've setup IBM machines (for others) and just didn't like em, ditto HP's...I love my Toshiba. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend the brand to *anyone*
I bought this when it was just a micron away from bleeding edge and benefitted immensely from the better price.
I say "Toshiba all the way, no matter what"
Hope this along with the other posts helps you some. It *does* seem that there's quite a few folks out here who feel the same way about Toshiba's that I do....it may perhaps guide you.
A stated on the Opera page;
"Opera crashes a bit more now than the previous version"
and indeed...it does.
I think this is a great step forward, but there's long way to go yet.