Office2007 came with my work PC. After 2 days trying to get used to buttons moving to different spots between each different ribbon mode, I was going crazy and uninstalled that shit for Open Office. At least it does the job in a consistent way.
Office 2007 reminds me of all the DVD player softwares that come with PCs: they always try to make them look like a remote control. Except you can't tell what the button symbols are. Or even if it's a button or just a decoration. They uniformly suck. But keep it simple as in Media Player Classic, and you have great software.
Well, it can happen. Once a friend had told me about a band and I went to a store and bought the CD. I absolutely hated it, couldn't even finish most of the songs. Went back to the store and told it straight to the guy who said that most people who try to return CDs are weasels with lame excuses like "it didn't work". He exchanged it without problem. But now how do you return a download ?
Funny, one of the most intelligent guys I've met also puked... in a friend's bedroom because he had confused it with mine where he was staying. And he's a brain surgeon! Just to say that intelligence and puking are probably not related (unfortunately).
Belkin have a history of shitty products. I got a mouse + keyboard wireless USB combo. The mouse had a 100 to 500ms delay before it would start moving, making it absolutely useless for any kind of graphic work. The keyboard had a small but acceptable delay, but a horrible key mapping (I had to pop 2 keys out to be able to use it). Then after a month it stopped working.
So if the astroreviews were written as if the guy was using them, I can imagine only very negative reviews...
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snakes don't have an asshole to begin with, so they poop through their mouth.
Wrong. And that's what taking acid during your biology classes leads to...
I also want to learn a Linux graphics toolkit to code user interfaces, although I fully welcome the GPL. Where can I learn besides some half baked online tutorials or humongous and mostly obsolete man pages ? Yes, I'm ready to pay for a week of formation. Suggestions in Europe ? I searched on the web and didn't find much.
I programmed on those machines at the time (Oric, Acorn, Amstrad, Comodore PET...) and now as a professional programmer I still wonder how they managed to put so much capabilities (color video, floating points, Basic, Pascal, assembler, fast games...) in so little memory. Your explanation, sir, brings a tear to my eye. Impressive.
In such a situation you may have no control on the computer (been there done that): the email will be sent by a unique set of computers on which you are a limited user, to a local server which connects twice a day to the outside. No way you can run rsync, even if you manage to install it on your limited account.
I managed to work around it by putting a subset of cygwin on a USB key (rsync, ssh and appropriate DLLs) with the site to update and a script, but the most important part was sweet talking the communication officer to plug it in and start the batch job while the email up/downlink was in progress. In other words, the hack relied on social engineering, as usual.
In a similar situation as the original poster, I'm also looking for a blogging software (preferably Php) that can be updated by email. I should set up a specific email account, then the blog software connects to it via POP3 regularly and publishes what is received, in particular image attachments. Anyway that's the idea. Anybody has recommendations ?
Good description of personality tests as used in a work environment. I had to submit to those as a selection to go to Antarctica. So you have to be crazy enough to want to go to such a place, but the test fails if you are crazy. You have to be an introvert because you'll be completely cut off from the rest of the world for 12 months once you are there, but at the same time be a social animal able to work on a team day and night with no escape except booze. Etc, etc... No wonder they use those same tests for astronaut testing ! I just fail to see how they can extract any meaningful data from seriously conflicting requirements.
There is certainly more than one place where the owner's info is inserted: once in plain text, once watermarked through the music stream, once using steganography inside the music stream, once encrypted in precise spot that in itself gives info about the source, etc... And only Apple and selected **AA will know about those. Still, it's a progress.
When I look in my rearview mirror and all I can see is a front bumper, it means that the corresponding raised pickup should NOT be allowed on the road or he'll decapitate me when he checks his cell phone. YOU get a grip !
Then why is it that advertising signs are allowed at all along roads ? Either they don't work (people pay no attention to them), hence they are useless and they should be removed. Or they work (people are temporarily distracted by them), hence they are a hazard and they should be removed.
While I agree with what you wrote, in the case of cars you have to add the 'annoyance factor' of making said cars flashy (bright red), with dangerous shapes (raised wheel) or noisy (the asshole going 'vroom! vroom!' at the light). _I_ and many others have to deal with them every time we are on a road; that's what's annoying, not just being jealous. It's the same as the iPhone, while I appreciate the technology that goes into them and hope that it trickles down someday, it doesn't mean I want one.
Convicts register their religious affiliation when they're processed into prison. And about 99.5% of the huge U.S.A. prison population consists of inmates who identified themselves as members of religious denominations." -- Gene M. Kasmar.
"In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion in the prosperous democracies." -- From 'Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies' a study published in the (peer-reviewed) Journal of Society and Religion, 2008.
"When I was young I used to pray for a bike. Then I realized that God doesn't work that way, so I stole a bike and prayed for forgiveness." -- Dan Gadino.
So how about we instead teach those criminals _not_ to use god as an excuse or as a way to get forgiveness ? Maybe if they figured out they have only their current life they'll decide to make better use of it. One can dream.
In a pure functional programming language, you don't program by manipulating a state, but by computing the results of functions
Which is why I always found the entire 'functional programming' paradigm absurd and useless. When you deal with I/O, you have states ('printf'). When you deal with a user (interface), you have states. Hell, even when you deal with time you have states ('before' and 'after').
If all you want to do is compute f(x), then OK, maybe, but besides that nothing useful has ever come out of functional programming except Emacs. Well, let me rephrase that: nothing useful has ever come out of functional programming, period. The amount of time and brain power wasted on things like Lisp for no result whatsoever is astounding.
I agree with your and the GP's analysis of LabView, which is why I use LabWindows: it's basically LabView's user interface connected to standard C, hence totally deterministic. But two things about LabView ensure its future: it's close to the way of thinking of electronicians and also it deploys very well on multicore processors (and probably on distributed architectures as well).
But saying we need to hop the rock because of a preventable and curable disease is either insane or absurdly callous
I think he meant it in a general sense. When an military-strength genetically engineered nastiness eventually get released (by accident, by a terror group, by a disgruntled lab worker or whatnot) and has a long latency, a quick spread and a high kill factor, we'll all be sorry we don't have a couple of hovering cities on Venus. Hint
The receptionist at work complained that she started getting rashes and other symptoms after we installed a wifi repeater outside her office door, claiming she's electrical sensitive. The problem was that the wifi wasn't even up and running until a few weeks later when the mesh was finished. And also she doesn't have a problem with the cell phone in her pocket which is orders of magnitude more powerful... And she claims that her alarm radio is sending radio-waves at her during the night and waking her up. That's the idea and you get the picture... Some people here have good fun.
I don't even know what websense is. Should I be worried, and how does one 'beg' to be taken off their blacklist ? Is it because there are executables (freewares) or because there are some jokes ? I doubt it's because of the penguin sex picture !
[...] how does your script sort out which shoot the files belong to.
By date. Easy enough.
Unless of course the files got corrupt in copying [...] That's a stupidly vague statement. Oh, I don't need to organize my cards, I use Elements organizer.
And how does Elements fare with corrupted cards or a corrupted filesystem ? I doubt any better than my little script. At least _I know_ what it does, unlike Elements which manipulates databases and tons of other crap around. Good luck when _that_ gets corrupted. I trust my filesystem when I manipulate files, thank you.
$712M [...] dollars was spent on the Obama campaign, and you can rest assured that very very VERY little of that was given by your average citizen.
Why, why, why are companies allowed to put money in the political process ?!? I can't see a single advantages or reason for that. Do all the employees agree on who should get the money ? No. Do all the customers agree ? No. Do all the shareholders agree ? No. So why is this form of bribery allowed ?
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Can it drive a semi-submerged fishing trawler 30 feet up at about a 15-20deg incline
Woah! You found a place with slopping waters ?!? That's awesome, now I can go waterskiing without the need for a boat !
I need the ability to assign certain characters to key combinations
You can do that with an external tool like autohotkey. Advantage: it works in any window.
Office 2007 reminds me of all the DVD player softwares that come with PCs: they always try to make them look like a remote control. Except you can't tell what the button symbols are. Or even if it's a button or just a decoration. They uniformly suck. But keep it simple as in Media Player Classic, and you have great software.
It's not like you can take it back.
Well, it can happen. Once a friend had told me about a band and I went to a store and bought the CD. I absolutely hated it, couldn't even finish most of the songs. Went back to the store and told it straight to the guy who said that most people who try to return CDs are weasels with lame excuses like "it didn't work". He exchanged it without problem. But now how do you return a download ?
Funny, one of the most intelligent guys I've met also puked... in a friend's bedroom because he had confused it with mine where he was staying. And he's a brain surgeon! Just to say that intelligence and puking are probably not related (unfortunately).
So if the astroreviews were written as if the guy was using them, I can imagine only very negative reviews...
snakes don't have an asshole to begin with, so they poop through their mouth.
Wrong. And that's what taking acid during your biology classes leads to...
I also want to learn a Linux graphics toolkit to code user interfaces, although I fully welcome the GPL. Where can I learn besides some half baked online tutorials or humongous and mostly obsolete man pages ? Yes, I'm ready to pay for a week of formation. Suggestions in Europe ? I searched on the web and didn't find much.
I programmed on those machines at the time (Oric, Acorn, Amstrad, Comodore PET...) and now as a professional programmer I still wonder how they managed to put so much capabilities (color video, floating points, Basic, Pascal, assembler, fast games...) in so little memory. Your explanation, sir, brings a tear to my eye. Impressive.
I managed to work around it by putting a subset of cygwin on a USB key (rsync, ssh and appropriate DLLs) with the site to update and a script, but the most important part was sweet talking the communication officer to plug it in and start the batch job while the email up/downlink was in progress. In other words, the hack relied on social engineering, as usual.
In a similar situation as the original poster, I'm also looking for a blogging software (preferably Php) that can be updated by email. I should set up a specific email account, then the blog software connects to it via POP3 regularly and publishes what is received, in particular image attachments. Anyway that's the idea. Anybody has recommendations ?
Good description of personality tests as used in a work environment. I had to submit to those as a selection to go to Antarctica. So you have to be crazy enough to want to go to such a place, but the test fails if you are crazy. You have to be an introvert because you'll be completely cut off from the rest of the world for 12 months once you are there, but at the same time be a social animal able to work on a team day and night with no escape except booze. Etc, etc... No wonder they use those same tests for astronaut testing ! I just fail to see how they can extract any meaningful data from seriously conflicting requirements.
There is certainly more than one place where the owner's info is inserted: once in plain text, once watermarked through the music stream, once using steganography inside the music stream, once encrypted in precise spot that in itself gives info about the source, etc... And only Apple and selected **AA will know about those. Still, it's a progress.
When I look in my rearview mirror and all I can see is a front bumper, it means that the corresponding raised pickup should NOT be allowed on the road or he'll decapitate me when he checks his cell phone. YOU get a grip !
Then why is it that advertising signs are allowed at all along roads ? Either they don't work (people pay no attention to them), hence they are useless and they should be removed. Or they work (people are temporarily distracted by them), hence they are a hazard and they should be removed.
While I agree with what you wrote, in the case of cars you have to add the 'annoyance factor' of making said cars flashy (bright red), with dangerous shapes (raised wheel) or noisy (the asshole going 'vroom! vroom!' at the light). _I_ and many others have to deal with them every time we are on a road; that's what's annoying, not just being jealous. It's the same as the iPhone, while I appreciate the technology that goes into them and hope that it trickles down someday, it doesn't mean I want one.
Convicts register their religious affiliation when they're processed into prison. And about 99.5% of the huge U.S.A. prison population consists of inmates who identified themselves as members of religious denominations." -- Gene M. Kasmar.
"In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion in the prosperous democracies." -- From 'Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies' a study published in the (peer-reviewed) Journal of Society and Religion, 2008.
"When I was young I used to pray for a bike. Then I realized that God doesn't work that way, so I stole a bike and prayed for forgiveness." -- Dan Gadino.
So how about we instead teach those criminals _not_ to use god as an excuse or as a way to get forgiveness ? Maybe if they figured out they have only their current life they'll decide to make better use of it. One can dream.
In a pure functional programming language, you don't program by manipulating a state, but by computing the results of functions
Which is why I always found the entire 'functional programming' paradigm absurd and useless. When you deal with I/O, you have states ('printf'). When you deal with a user (interface), you have states. Hell, even when you deal with time you have states ('before' and 'after').
If all you want to do is compute f(x), then OK, maybe, but besides that nothing useful has ever come out of functional programming except Emacs. Well, let me rephrase that: nothing useful has ever come out of functional programming, period. The amount of time and brain power wasted on things like Lisp for no result whatsoever is astounding.
I agree with your and the GP's analysis of LabView, which is why I use LabWindows: it's basically LabView's user interface connected to standard C, hence totally deterministic. But two things about LabView ensure its future: it's close to the way of thinking of electronicians and also it deploys very well on multicore processors (and probably on distributed architectures as well).
But saying we need to hop the rock because of a preventable and curable disease is either insane or absurdly callous
I think he meant it in a general sense. When an military-strength genetically engineered nastiness eventually get released (by accident, by a terror group, by a disgruntled lab worker or whatnot) and has a long latency, a quick spread and a high kill factor, we'll all be sorry we don't have a couple of hovering cities on Venus. Hint
The receptionist at work complained that she started getting rashes and other symptoms after we installed a wifi repeater outside her office door, claiming she's electrical sensitive. The problem was that the wifi wasn't even up and running until a few weeks later when the mesh was finished. And also she doesn't have a problem with the cell phone in her pocket which is orders of magnitude more powerful... And she claims that her alarm radio is sending radio-waves at her during the night and waking her up. That's the idea and you get the picture... Some people here have good fun.
OK, thanks Abreu and Tacvek for bringing that issue to me. I reported it to Websense and we'll see what comes out.
I don't even know what websense is. Should I be worried, and how does one 'beg' to be taken off their blacklist ? Is it because there are executables (freewares) or because there are some jokes ? I doubt it's because of the penguin sex picture !
[...] how does your script sort out which shoot the files belong to.
By date. Easy enough.
Unless of course the files got corrupt in copying [...] That's a stupidly vague statement. Oh, I don't need to organize my cards, I use Elements organizer.
And how does Elements fare with corrupted cards or a corrupted filesystem ? I doubt any better than my little script. At least _I know_ what it does, unlike Elements which manipulates databases and tons of other crap around. Good luck when _that_ gets corrupted. I trust my filesystem when I manipulate files, thank you.
$712M [...] dollars was spent on the Obama campaign, and you can rest assured that very very VERY little of that was given by your average citizen.
Why, why, why are companies allowed to put money in the political process ?!? I can't see a single advantages or reason for that. Do all the employees agree on who should get the money ? No. Do all the customers agree ? No. Do all the shareholders agree ? No. So why is this form of bribery allowed ?