Here in the Philippines, Starbucks either doesn't have WiFi or charges significantly for WiFi on top of the cost of the coffee. Mind you, the Starbucks here are run under a monopolistic license held by Rustan's. Personally, I go over the road to Seattle's Best Coffee, also owned by Starbucks that does offer free WiFi, or at least one hour's WiFi included in the cost of your coffee. In summary, the comment in the article regarding Starbucks only necessarily refers to the US, though it may be true in other regions. Despite emailing Starbucks Philippines, they have not deigned to explain why they choose to lose my coffee purchases rather than offer me WiFi, though the Starbucks here seem always busy regardless, so maybe they have no need to offer the incentive of free WiFi. I can believe the Philippines demands a different business model than the States.
I'm a software manager at a BioTech company. I hire 70% on fit and 30% on technical ablility. Don't get me wrong. You must have the technical ability, or have shown evidence that you're smart and can pick things up quickly. That's a given, and the subject of another post. But the rest is whether you'll fit with the team. Get your work done. Have a laugh and a joke. Try and gossip positively rather than negatively. Help us many people as you can, but don't let your core tasks slide. Be proactive about the next piece of work. Don't be too late in through the door in the morning, don't head out on the dot at 5pm most evenings. Your clothes should be clean, and you shouldn't smell bad. Going to work should be enjoyable, you're going to be there a lot of your waking time. Enjoy the company of the people you're with, and try and help them out.
I have a Pentax Optio 550 purchased in July 2003 that recently failed (at my wedding in June of this year) with exactly the same failure mode as others here. I've added photos to my flickr at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/salm/search/tags:Pent ax/
They compare well with failures from a Canon Powershot A70 that someone else has posted here:
http://flickr.com/photos/dekstop/sets/1026874/
The Pentax Optio 550 is not mentioned either on this site or on Pentax (UK)s website. Does anyone have any similar stories with regard to Pentax failures, or does anyone know if the Pentax has a similar Sony sensor.
The Pentax has performed well until this sudden failure.
OK, I found the article and headline a little short on hard facts, so did a quick search for a better explanation. You can find that here: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BRZ/is _5_23/ai_103731260 The alleged move to 3D is something of a red herring. It appears that with current longitudinal technology, each bit is encoded by a magnet with a North-South axis that lies in the same plane as the platter itself and occupies some 100 grains of the magnetic material. The novelty here is that in perpendicular recording, the magnet is stood on end with its North-South axis perpendicular to the plane of the platter. Apparently this theoretically leads to greater areal densities of data exceeding that of the longitudinal technology. This is where the win occurs. In particular, what initially confused me is that we are not talking about multiple layers of data within one platter. There is still only one layer of data per side per platter, but we have achieved greater areal density of that data. Exactly what that density will be once these drives are in production is anyone's guess. Any help?
I understand (see above and http://www.wired.com/news/gizmos/0,1452,66950,00.h tml?tw=wn_tophead_3)
that the Japanese are reading books on their mobiles (cellphones, handies, select word according to region), however despite searching at the weekend, I couldn't find an application that would allow me to take the plaintext file from Project Gutenberg or elsewhere and turn it into something I could read in chunks on my Nokia6230 (a Series 40 phone I believe).
I have used Plucker on my Handspring for a while and found it excellent, but recently changed phones and discovered the 6230 makes my Handspring virtually redundant, but a book reader would really help. A 1Gb card in it already for mp3 files means a few hundred k for a novel really wouldn't be noticed.
I spend a fair amount of time travelling up and down the country on trains, and a little flying across Europe (ok, I can't use my mobile whilst in the air, but most of the time occupied by short haul air travel is on the ground), at the same time, I don't want to carry too many devices, or too many books.
If you are lookinf for a book containing 10,000 German words suitable for learning the language then I suggest the book:
Collins Pocket 10000 German Words (available from Amazon)
They do similar books for other languages. We used the French and German versions at school, and I now need the Italian to talk to my parents-in-law.
They are partnered with similar pocketsized grammar books, and verb tables, as well as Collins pocket dictionaries, and are handy enough to take on trips to the appropriate country.
Are the IOC allowing this name?
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I remember going to 'The First Robot Olympics' in Glasgow, Scotland in 1988/89, still have the Tshirt somewhere. A couple of years later I was asked to promote another robot event, run by the same people, but definitely not anything to do with the olympics, as the IOC is very protective about the word Olympics, not surprising given some of the other discussions on/. at the moment. So my suspicion is that the name will have some problems. In conclusion, my feelings are it's not the first, and it's not the Olympics, but apart from that it's fine. Shame I can't afford to go over there.
would it not basically put the ISS out of buisness?
Well, yes. The ISS is really nothing more than a cheap bubble with life support and a few solar cells. It's the cost of putting it up there that's the problem. And it's in the wrong orbit (low-earth, not geo-stationary) and the wrong path. The cost of putting up a new even similarly built space station on the elevator would be tiny compared to the cost of moving the ISS. It's a little bit like owning a small house in (say) Edinburgh, and wanting to move to Umbria, Italy, where they have cheaper houses in a better location. Do I move my house on the back of a transporter from Scotland to Italy or buy a new cheaper one on location in Umbria? (Please don't start a thread on the cost of houses in Edinburgh and Umbria, it's the analogy not the details of the real estate market).
I'd like to point out that you can avoid traffic also by going late to work and heading home late in the evening I would second this. My most productive working time during the day is from 3-7pm, and at night frequently midnight-5am. Just now I have a client who insists on a 9am start, so I insist on a 5pm finish. It means I don't worry about the client's job outside these hours, and they don't get the most productive hours of my day, but I wonder if they realise just how much productivity they are losing. To quote a friend: Visbility != Productivity (Anyway, back to the proposal I'm supposed to be writing).
Whereas I admit accessibility is an issue, there is no problem seeing a hologram with only one eye. The only drawback is that with one eye you don't get the 3D effect without moving your head ('kinematic depth'). Consider the beer glass I have in front of me. Even with a hand over one eye I can look around the glass to get the full 3D sensation. (Oh, now I'm getting dizzy).
This seems to be a technology with a set of useful applications (kiosks, mobile computing etc.) but it is unlikely to supplant our keyboard and mouse combination soon. Of course, keyboard, mouse and screen have their own accessibility issues.
Personally, I'm a really good procrastinator! As I imagine are all those reading and replying to this when they have other tasks they should be doing.
Personally, I have a little code to hack for Monday morning, and I've had free time since Friday afternoon, and the weather's good but I've been inside, and still I'm not doing it. Incidentally, RTCW-Enemy Territory kills hours of time dead.
If ZDNet were out by a factor of a 1000 on the die technology, maybe they were also out on the speed. Maybe AMD will be producing terahertz chips, or more likely only a 1MHz chip:(
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Here in the Philippines, Starbucks either doesn't have WiFi or charges significantly for WiFi on top of the cost of the coffee. Mind you, the Starbucks here are run under a monopolistic license held by Rustan's. Personally, I go over the road to Seattle's Best Coffee, also owned by Starbucks that does offer free WiFi, or at least one hour's WiFi included in the cost of your coffee.
In summary, the comment in the article regarding Starbucks only necessarily refers to the US, though it may be true in other regions.
Despite emailing Starbucks Philippines, they have not deigned to explain why they choose to lose my coffee purchases rather than offer me WiFi, though the Starbucks here seem always busy regardless, so maybe they have no need to offer the incentive of free WiFi.
I can believe the Philippines demands a different business model than the States.
I'd agree with the above.
I'm a software manager at a BioTech company.
I hire 70% on fit and 30% on technical ablility.
Don't get me wrong. You must have the technical ability, or have shown evidence that you're smart and can pick things up quickly.
That's a given, and the subject of another post.
But the rest is whether you'll fit with the team.
Get your work done. Have a laugh and a joke. Try and gossip positively rather than negatively. Help us many people as you can, but don't let your core tasks slide.
Be proactive about the next piece of work.
Don't be too late in through the door in the morning, don't head out on the dot at 5pm most evenings.
Your clothes should be clean, and you shouldn't smell bad.
Going to work should be enjoyable, you're going to be there a lot of your waking time. Enjoy the company of the people you're with, and try and help them out.
Enjoy
I have a Pentax Optio 550 purchased in July 2003 that recently failed (at my wedding in June of this year) with exactly the same failure mode as others here. I've added photos to my flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/salm/search/tags:Pent ax/
They compare well with failures from a Canon Powershot A70 that someone else has posted here:
http://flickr.com/photos/dekstop/sets/1026874/
The Pentax Optio 550 is not mentioned either on this site or on Pentax (UK)s website. Does anyone have any similar stories with regard to Pentax failures, or does anyone know if the Pentax has a similar Sony sensor.
The Pentax has performed well until this sudden failure.
OK, I found the article and headline a little short on hard facts, so did a quick search for a better explanation. You can find that here:s _5_23/ai_103731260
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BRZ/i
The alleged move to 3D is something of a red herring.
It appears that with current longitudinal technology, each bit is encoded by a magnet with a North-South axis that lies in the same plane as the platter itself and occupies some 100 grains of the magnetic material. The novelty here is that in perpendicular recording, the magnet is stood on end with its North-South axis perpendicular to the plane of the platter.
Apparently this theoretically leads to greater areal densities of data exceeding that of the longitudinal technology. This is where the win occurs.
In particular, what initially confused me is that we are not talking about multiple layers of data within one platter. There is still only one layer of data per side per platter, but we have achieved greater areal density of that data. Exactly what that density will be once these drives are in production is anyone's guess.
Any help?
I understand (see above and http://www.wired.com/news/gizmos/0,1452,66950,00.h tml?tw=wn_tophead_3)
that the Japanese are reading books on their mobiles (cellphones, handies, select word according to region), however despite searching at the weekend, I couldn't find an application that would allow me to take the plaintext file from Project Gutenberg or elsewhere and turn it into something I could read in chunks on my Nokia6230 (a Series 40 phone I believe).
I have used Plucker on my Handspring for a while and found it excellent, but recently changed phones and discovered the 6230 makes my Handspring virtually redundant, but a book reader would really help. A 1Gb card in it already for mp3 files means a few hundred k for a novel really wouldn't be noticed.
I spend a fair amount of time travelling up and down the country on trains, and a little flying across Europe (ok, I can't use my mobile whilst in the air, but most of the time occupied by short haul air travel is on the ground), at the same time, I don't want to carry too many devices, or too many books.
Any suggestions?
If you are lookinf for a book containing 10,000 German words suitable for learning the language then I suggest the book:
Collins Pocket 10000 German Words
(available from Amazon)
They do similar books for other languages. We used the French and German versions at school, and I now need the Italian to talk to my parents-in-law.
They are partnered with similar pocketsized grammar books, and verb tables, as well as Collins pocket dictionaries, and are handy enough to take on trips to the appropriate country.
Not where I am, nor, after a little Google:
...
...
[google] define:hawk
The verb "hawk" has 3 senses in WordNet.
1. peddle, monger, huckster, hawk, vend, pitch -- (sell or offer for sale from place to place)
whereas "hock" though I would have given you it, appears to have a different meaning
The verb "hock" has 2 senses in WordNet.
1. pawn, soak, hock -- (leave as a guarantee in return for money; "pawn your grandfather's gold watch")
However, this mistake is as nothing to those who type "loose" when they mean "lose".
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/lose.html
I remember going to 'The First Robot Olympics' in Glasgow, Scotland in 1988/89, still have the Tshirt somewhere. /. at the moment.
A couple of years later I was asked to promote another robot event, run by the same people, but definitely not anything to do with the olympics, as the IOC is very protective about the word Olympics, not surprising given some of the other discussions on
So my suspicion is that the name will have some problems.
In conclusion, my feelings are it's not the first, and it's not the Olympics, but apart from that it's fine.
Shame I can't afford to go over there.
would it not basically put the ISS out of buisness?
Well, yes. The ISS is really nothing more than a cheap bubble with life support and a few solar cells. It's the cost of putting it up there that's the problem. And it's in the wrong orbit (low-earth, not geo-stationary) and the wrong path. The cost of putting up a new even similarly built space station on the elevator would be tiny compared to the cost of moving the ISS.
It's a little bit like owning a small house in (say) Edinburgh, and wanting to move to Umbria, Italy, where they have cheaper houses in a better location. Do I move my house on the back of a transporter from Scotland to Italy or buy a new cheaper one on location in Umbria?
(Please don't start a thread on the cost of houses in Edinburgh and Umbria, it's the analogy not the details of the real estate market).
I'd like to point out that you can avoid traffic also by going late to work and heading home late in the evening
I would second this. My most productive working time during the day is from 3-7pm, and at night frequently midnight-5am.
Just now I have a client who insists on a 9am start, so I insist on a 5pm finish. It means I don't worry about the client's job outside these hours, and they don't get the most productive hours of my day, but I wonder if they realise just how much productivity they are losing.
To quote a friend: Visbility != Productivity
(Anyway, back to the proposal I'm supposed to be writing).
Whereas I admit accessibility is an issue, there is no problem seeing a hologram with only one eye.
The only drawback is that with one eye you don't get the 3D effect without moving your head ('kinematic depth'). Consider the beer glass I have in front of me. Even with a hand over one eye I can look around the glass to get the full 3D sensation. (Oh, now I'm getting dizzy).
This seems to be a technology with a set of useful applications (kiosks, mobile computing etc.) but it is unlikely to supplant our keyboard and mouse combination soon. Of course, keyboard, mouse and screen have their own accessibility issues.
>> maybe you're just a really bad procrastinator
Personally, I'm a really good procrastinator!
As I imagine are all those reading and replying to this when they have other tasks they should be doing.
Personally, I have a little code to hack for Monday morning, and I've had free time since Friday afternoon, and the weather's good but I've been inside, and still I'm not doing it. Incidentally, RTCW-Enemy Territory kills hours of time dead.
If ZDNet were out by a factor of a 1000 on the die technology, maybe they were also out on the speed. Maybe AMD will be producing terahertz chips, or more likely only a 1MHz chip :(