Take a quick look at the picture on the Daily Telegraph article. In that office, you get to be part of your neighbor's team when they are collaborating on their project. If they are working on a different project, you get to be a part of all their discussions. If management decides that productivity is suffering, they generally conclude that it has to be because communication is not as efficient as it should be. See those barriers between monitors? Poof, they go away. You get to watch someone move around right in your field of vision all day. And hear everything they say. Take a look at Peopleware by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister. Specifically chapters 8, 9 and 10. They discuss interruptions and office environment. They discuss the work environment and how most of the time software people work by themselves or with one or two other people. If those people are identified and given their own space, they are able to work on the big project and get it done with a minimum of interruptions and defects. Like you said, you go over to them, but they are right next to you and there should be some sort of noise barrier between you and the next team over so they are not interrupted by your collaboration. Before you say "headphones", chapter 12 references a study that shows that listening to music while programming can keep you from seeing patterns that would make your work more efficient.
I don't think that is the point. The current trend is to make sure that your workplace is all collaboration all the time. If you are not talking to your coworkers, they think they have to reduce more barriers, or force the interactions in more ways. No one is thinking that knowledge workers might need quiet to get their work done.
That is more of a buy schedule. It just tells you how long it has been since the product was updated, and whether you should wait and not waste your money right then.
Most of the Bluetooth headphones that I have used only like to be paired to one device at a time. A lot of Mac Book users also have an iPhone that now does not have a headphone jack. You will get all the adventures of pairing your headphones each time you switch devices.
I still think it would be very difficult to intercept interstellar neutrino communication because it is a stream of particles. Wouldn't the Earth have to move through the stream for us to detect the transmission?
The part I don't understand is that the patent has expired. Software pattents expire 14 years after they are granted http://www.clemson.edu/research/ottSite/ottStart_I ntelectPatents.htm#Duration. That is in 1991 according to the link that was provided in the summary. So I guess that they can sue for any infrigement before 2005. After that there is no protection on the idea. Going after the current version of OSX seems dumb because it is not covered by the patent.
One point though is that the neanthertals had larger brains than homo sapiens. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neandertal 1200-1750 cm skull capacity (10% greater than modern human average). This is one of the reasons why it would be possible that the big brain gene would come from neanthertals. I guess they are still trying to push the neandertal/human hybrid theory. If you look at #5 at http://scienceweek.com/2004/sb040910-3.htm they think that it is not likely because of lack of mitochondrial DNA evidence.
You should consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Or if it hasn't been good to you so far, and concidering your circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be bothering you much longer.
How much of that change happened between 1000 and 1500? How much happened between 1500 and 2000? The difference? Wide spead literacy. Can a literate English speaker understand Shakespeare? The biggest change is in the standardazation of spelling. There are a few phrases and words that have changed meaning, or were culture specific to his time, but we do recongnize it as modern English. English in 2500 will be even more similar to contemporary English than Shakespeare is to us. Yes in 10000 years English will be very different, but not nearly as different as Proto-Anglo-Saxon is to us.
I was under the impression that this is how Windows NT and later were supposed to be designed. Each environment subsystem is supposed to emulate the operating environment of the client program. It is supposed to act like a VM that translates between Windows and, say, DOS or whatever other environment they chose to implement. The original version came with an OS/2 subsystem, for example. I guess these subsystems did not do the job that marketing promised they would. It almost sounds like they were implemented more like the WINE project, as a series of API translations, than as a virtual machine.
I always laugh at the French bureau that tries to keep French clear of English contamination. English just borrowed those words 600 years ago and now we are kindly giving them back.
Intel's plan all along has been to reduce the size of their pipeline stages in order to increase the possible clock rate. Unless this is a new plan the word reduce should be increase.
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The boss and the manager can also close the door to their office when it gets too noisy.
Take a quick look at the picture on the Daily Telegraph article. In that office, you get to be part of your neighbor's team when they are collaborating on their project. If they are working on a different project, you get to be a part of all their discussions. If management decides that productivity is suffering, they generally conclude that it has to be because communication is not as efficient as it should be. See those barriers between monitors? Poof, they go away. You get to watch someone move around right in your field of vision all day. And hear everything they say.
Take a look at Peopleware by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister. Specifically chapters 8, 9 and 10. They discuss interruptions and office environment. They discuss the work environment and how most of the time software people work by themselves or with one or two other people. If those people are identified and given their own space, they are able to work on the big project and get it done with a minimum of interruptions and defects. Like you said, you go over to them, but they are right next to you and there should be some sort of noise barrier between you and the next team over so they are not interrupted by your collaboration. Before you say "headphones", chapter 12 references a study that shows that listening to music while programming can keep you from seeing patterns that would make your work more efficient.
I don't think that is the point. The current trend is to make sure that your workplace is all collaboration all the time. If you are not talking to your coworkers, they think they have to reduce more barriers, or force the interactions in more ways. No one is thinking that knowledge workers might need quiet to get their work done.
With this UAC, does it ask you for administrator permissions every time you plug something in?
That is more of a buy schedule. It just tells you how long it has been since the product was updated, and whether you should wait and not waste your money right then.
Am I the only one who reads these as Al, as in short for Albert? It makes these sorts of headlines very amusing.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
It phones home by default. Turn off telemetry if that bothers you.
Most of the Bluetooth headphones that I have used only like to be paired to one device at a time. A lot of Mac Book users also have an iPhone that now does not have a headphone jack. You will get all the adventures of pairing your headphones each time you switch devices.
I'm adding gruntbuggly and turlingdrome to my list of words I don't want to see.
Don't blame me! I voted for Kodos.
Zod. You are kneeling before Zod.
For places that have used up all the forests.
"if you're doing nothing wrong you've got nothing to hide"
If I've done nothing wrong, they have no reason to spy on me.
What you are doing isn't illegal yet. Once it is, they have evidence.
The could have contracted Kerbodyne to make this.
Remember the days when every typewriter, toy, cereal company made their own PC? I would not be surprised to see a Cheerios driverless car soon.
I still think it would be very difficult to intercept interstellar neutrino communication because it is a stream of particles. Wouldn't the Earth have to move through the stream for us to detect the transmission?
The part I don't understand is that the patent has expired. Software pattents expire 14 years after they are granted http://www.clemson.edu/research/ottSite/ottStart_I ntelectPatents.htm#Duration. That is in 1991 according to the link that was provided in the summary. So I guess that they can sue for any infrigement before 2005. After that there is no protection on the idea. Going after the current version of OSX seems dumb because it is not covered by the patent.
One point though is that the neanthertals had larger brains than homo sapiens. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neandertal 1200-1750 cm skull capacity (10% greater than modern human average). This is one of the reasons why it would be possible that the big brain gene would come from neanthertals.
I guess they are still trying to push the neandertal/human hybrid theory. If you look at #5 at http://scienceweek.com/2004/sb040910-3.htm they think that it is not likely because of lack of mitochondrial DNA evidence.
You should consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Or if it hasn't been good to you so far, and concidering your circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be bothering you much longer.
I use the "Joergs Safrad" skin and really enjoy it. There are a few variants so take a look to see what you like best. http://my.opera.com/community/customize/skins/auth or/?id=lachralle
How much of that change happened between 1000 and 1500? How much happened between 1500 and 2000? The difference? Wide spead literacy. Can a literate English speaker understand Shakespeare? The biggest change is in the standardazation of spelling. There are a few phrases and words that have changed meaning, or were culture specific to his time, but we do recongnize it as modern English. English in 2500 will be even more similar to contemporary English than Shakespeare is to us.
Yes in 10000 years English will be very different, but not nearly as different as Proto-Anglo-Saxon is to us.
I was under the impression that this is how Windows NT and later were supposed to be designed. Each environment subsystem is supposed to emulate the operating environment of the client program. It is supposed to act like a VM that translates between Windows and, say, DOS or whatever other environment they chose to implement. The original version came with an OS/2 subsystem, for example. I guess these subsystems did not do the job that marketing promised they would. It almost sounds like they were implemented more like the WINE project, as a series of API translations, than as a virtual machine.
I always laugh at the French bureau that tries to keep French clear of English contamination. English just borrowed those words 600 years ago and now we are kindly giving them back.
Homer - "Second in line and I only had to miss 8 days of work."
Guy behind him - "With the money you would have earned working you could have bough tickets from a scalper."
Intel's plan all along has been to reduce the size of their pipeline stages in order to increase the possible clock rate.
Unless this is a new plan the word reduce should be increase.