What does skill have to do with putting ones life on the line? What does skill have to do with protecting someone?
And ground-pounding jobs require skill; they're just not desk jobs. A vehicle mechanic in the mililtary makes just as much as a naval nuclear reactor operator, if they're the same rank. (Well, pay scale. But rank and pay scale are usually associated with one another.)
What do you mean by "monochrome"? Do individual plasma cells support multiple hues?
CRTs and LCDs have three different cells per pixel, one each for red, green and blue. Really old CRTs and LCDs only had one cell per pixel, for grayscale.
>Yes, it is. Nobody has ever denied this. Then why the hypocritic finger-pointing? Just how black is your pot, anyway?
Wrong. They do not hate. They have a hobby which they enjoy and Microsoft cannot employ every one of them. So you're saying open source coders would work at Microsoft if they could? I'd surely like to see the survey results for that one. I wouldn't want to work on Windows...Microsoft's quality control sucks balls. Linux developers enjoy working with a decent product and a decently-written codebase.
Except that, in open source, we all police each other. Except that, in open source, you all have the same mentality. Surely you don't think there's anything special about open source developers as opposed to the many teams of internally-policing coders at a company like MS? (Other than the fact that FOSS coders think they're God's Gift to Applications, while MS coders get abused by the same anti-government types just for doing their job) Don't lump me in with the asshats on comp.os.linux.advocacy. (Seriously, you should try trolling over there...you'll get a lot more bang for your buck.) As for internal coding policies...Does Windows not crash for you? Does it not run slow? Whenever I try doing things outside of the norm (or even "normal" things, if you're a gamer.), Windows gets unstable.
Sure, there's things you can do to speed up Windows, but the fact remains it doesn't hold up well to advanced usage.
You should have that checked out. Hey, at least I have a reason for the crazy illogical ranting. What's yours? You sound like you're on meth...
FOSS/FSF/GNU has the proper doorstop. And that magical barrier would be...? A central, community-minded advocacy and software development organization?
One doesn't need to see that an area is blurred out on a Satellite picture to know that it's a government facility. You could just look at the big metal or stone sign in front of the building. Or military uniforms.
Really, though, people who want to do a government harm don't have to discover targets. Real estate is slow, and governments are slower still. If a building was used by a government 20 years ago, it's likely still used by that government today. That puts the ownership of the building into the "common knowledge" category.
I tutored a student in C++ last week who bragged about his having graduated from ITT Tech.
He immediately complained that his C++ instructor was training them in methods suited for millions of code, when their assignments never had more than a couple hundred lines.
As opposed to the quarter ton who let their CS "gene" go to their heads, and they think they're God's gift to computing. A quarter-ton is 500 lbs, right? So that's what, two programmers? I can compete with that.
If you're going to criticize my description of the article, please read my description.
The OP never linked to anything except the company. The other links were wikipedia entries detail what a non-compete clause is and soforth. Pleas ego thru the links if you are going to talk about them. That's exactly what I said. The employer, and articles describing documents the submitter didn't sign.
A wikipedia article describing non-competes qualifies as a page "describing a document the submitter didn't sign." Ditto the other Wikipedia article. And one can assume that the hyperlink to "the company" was also intended as a hyperlink "to the employer."
Oh, now I see what you're talking about. I thought you were talking about something internal to the PC.
Some advice. Don't go with multiple voltages. Instead, use one voltage, and let DC-DC converters in the device take care of the rest. And make it a relatively high voltage, to reduce wiring requirements.
They use 48V in telecom equipment. I'd suggest going with that. It's just shy of where voltages begin to get dangerous. (50V)
You mean like USB and Firewire powering attached peripherals?
The only thing left would be the speakers, monitor and printer. Not sure about the power usage of a monitor or speakers, but printers have powerful motors that have to be able to contend with things like paper jams. I've heard anecdotal evidence of laser printers consuming as much as a kilowatt. (Though for laser printers, that's largely because they need to melt the toner.)
Also, a power supply doesn't simply provide N watts. Its power capabilities are divided between several rails of different voltages. The cheaper power supplies put most of their capability in the relatively unused 3.3V rail. Most power draw today is in the 12V rail.
If they edited out the employer name, you would be the first person to complain that they don't mention what company it was. You can't please people on Slashdot. Nah. I usually don't speak up in Ask Slashdots; I prefer to read what other people say. This one A/. just seemed ill-advised.
I hope this makes people think twice before hosting with The Planet or one of their resellers or one of their resellers or one of their resellers or one of their resellers........ And that, right there is the crux of this article. Have you ever noticed that every other time there's an Ask Slashdot that complains about an employer or other professional relationship, the offending party isn't named?
Not only does the article contain the name of the employer, but the submitter linked to them, along with a couple Wikipedia articles describing documents the poster didn't sign. It's like he wasn't looking for advice, and just wanted to announce to a million geeks that Company X is bad.
This reads like a smear campaign. I'm surprised the editors didn't edit out the employer name, at least. If it's legit, then there's going to be bad blood and possibly legal repercussions.
Building bidrectional LED lights is easy; you just take two LEDs in parallel, and orient them in reverse from each other.
When current flows one way, one LED lights. When current flows the other way, the other LED lights.
They've been doing it for years with two-lead bicolor LEDs. There should no problems with dimmer switches, either; you're just reducing the current flow. (The voltage drop across the LED is constant.)
I agree. I wasn't taking issue with the offer described in the article, I was taking issue with another Slashdotter's argument that video cards weren't well-supported by their manufacturers.
Besides, I don't see ATI or NVidia releasing the specs to their hardware; an open source driver would give ATI a great deal of insight to how NVidia's cards work, and vise versa.
Frankly, I'd like to see those application shortcut keys get supported; That alone would make my day.
I've had the reverse experience. A student's Word document resided on a floppy disk they hadn't been taking care of, and wound up corrupted. The document crashed Word, even after running ScanDisk on the floppy.
I popped the floppy into the one computer in the lab which I had installed OOo on, opened the document, and re-saved it as a Word document. The student lost some of their document, but much of it was still recoverable.
Aside from Access, is there something you've done with Microsoft Office that I haven't done--or can't do--with OpenOffice?
Heck, I can even think of a couple things I've done in OpenOffice that can't be done with Microsoft Office. Take superscript, for example. Yes, MS Office supports a superscript flag, but OpenOffice lets me apply varying degrees of superscript. And that's functionality I've needed.
I've also used OpenOffice to repair Microsoft Word documents that crashed Microsoft's product.
I tutor people in working with Microsoft Office every day, and every day I encounter things that lead me to believe that OpenOffice works better.
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Did you reply to the wrong comment? I don't see how that contradicts mine...
What does skill have to do with putting ones life on the line? What does skill have to do with protecting someone?
And ground-pounding jobs require skill; they're just not desk jobs. A vehicle mechanic in the mililtary makes just as much as a naval nuclear reactor operator, if they're the same rank. (Well, pay scale. But rank and pay scale are usually associated with one another.)
True. But I was limiting myself to the PC era, as most people around here aren't even cognizant of computer technology spanning that.
That's what I thought...Your contrasting "monochrome" with "plasma" confused me.
What do you mean by "monochrome"? Do individual plasma cells support multiple hues?
CRTs and LCDs have three different cells per pixel, one each for red, green and blue. Really old CRTs and LCDs only had one cell per pixel, for grayscale.
Then why the hypocritic finger-pointing? Just how black is your pot, anyway? Wrong. They do not hate. They have a hobby which they enjoy and Microsoft cannot employ every one of them. So you're saying open source coders would work at Microsoft if they could? I'd surely like to see the survey results for that one. I wouldn't want to work on Windows...Microsoft's quality control sucks balls. Linux developers enjoy working with a decent product and a decently-written codebase. Except that, in open source, we all police each other. Except that, in open source, you all have the same mentality. Surely you don't think there's anything special about open source developers as opposed to the many teams of internally-policing coders at a company like MS? (Other than the fact that FOSS coders think they're God's Gift to Applications, while MS coders get abused by the same anti-government types just for doing their job) Don't lump me in with the asshats on comp.os.linux.advocacy. (Seriously, you should try trolling over there...you'll get a lot more bang for your buck.) As for internal coding policies...Does Windows not crash for you? Does it not run slow? Whenever I try doing things outside of the norm (or even "normal" things, if you're a gamer.), Windows gets unstable.
Sure, there's things you can do to speed up Windows, but the fact remains it doesn't hold up well to advanced usage. You should have that checked out. Hey, at least I have a reason for the crazy illogical ranting. What's yours? You sound like you're on meth... FOSS/FSF/GNU has the proper doorstop. And that magical barrier would be...? A central, community-minded advocacy and software development organization?
...asshatish... That sounds like a drug. Appropriate, I guess.So? You're implying that terrorists would use Google Earth?
No...One doesn't need to see that an area is blurred out on a Satellite picture to know that it's a government facility. You could just look at the big metal or stone sign in front of the building. Or military uniforms.
Really, though, people who want to do a government harm don't have to discover targets. Real estate is slow, and governments are slower still. If a building was used by a government 20 years ago, it's likely still used by that government today. That puts the ownership of the building into the "common knowledge" category.
India frequently deals with domestic terrorism, especially around the Kashmir area.
I tutored a student in C++ last week who bragged about his having graduated from ITT Tech.
He immediately complained that his C++ instructor was training them in methods suited for millions of code, when their assignments never had more than a couple hundred lines.
A wikipedia article describing non-competes qualifies as a page "describing a document the submitter didn't sign." Ditto the other Wikipedia article. And one can assume that the hyperlink to "the company" was also intended as a hyperlink "to the employer."
Did I miss something?
Oh, now I see what you're talking about. I thought you were talking about something internal to the PC.
Some advice. Don't go with multiple voltages. Instead, use one voltage, and let DC-DC converters in the device take care of the rest. And make it a relatively high voltage, to reduce wiring requirements.
They use 48V in telecom equipment. I'd suggest going with that. It's just shy of where voltages begin to get dangerous. (50V)
You mean like USB and Firewire powering attached peripherals?
The only thing left would be the speakers, monitor and printer. Not sure about the power usage of a monitor or speakers, but printers have powerful motors that have to be able to contend with things like paper jams. I've heard anecdotal evidence of laser printers consuming as much as a kilowatt. (Though for laser printers, that's largely because they need to melt the toner.)
Also, a power supply doesn't simply provide N watts. Its power capabilities are divided between several rails of different voltages. The cheaper power supplies put most of their capability in the relatively unused 3.3V rail. Most power draw today is in the 12V rail.
Not only does the article contain the name of the employer, but the submitter linked to them, along with a couple Wikipedia articles describing documents the poster didn't sign. It's like he wasn't looking for advice, and just wanted to announce to a million geeks that Company X is bad.
This reads like a smear campaign. I'm surprised the editors didn't edit out the employer name, at least. If it's legit, then there's going to be bad blood and possibly legal repercussions.
But then I'd have to stop reading the YRO section of Slashdot...
Building bidrectional LED lights is easy; you just take two LEDs in parallel, and orient them in reverse from each other.
When current flows one way, one LED lights. When current flows the other way, the other LED lights.
They've been doing it for years with two-lead bicolor LEDs. There should no problems with dimmer switches, either; you're just reducing the current flow. (The voltage drop across the LED is constant.)
"this..."
I've been compiling my own kernels for years. He speaks the truth.
I agree. I wasn't taking issue with the offer described in the article, I was taking issue with another Slashdotter's argument that video cards weren't well-supported by their manufacturers.
Besides, I don't see ATI or NVidia releasing the specs to their hardware; an open source driver would give ATI a great deal of insight to how NVidia's cards work, and vise versa.
Frankly, I'd like to see those application shortcut keys get supported; That alone would make my day.
I've got several CoCo IIIs.
Wait, you're saying that's not a personal computer?
I've had the reverse experience. A student's Word document resided on a floppy disk they hadn't been taking care of, and wound up corrupted. The document crashed Word, even after running ScanDisk on the floppy.
I popped the floppy into the one computer in the lab which I had installed OOo on, opened the document, and re-saved it as a Word document. The student lost some of their document, but much of it was still recoverable.
Aside from Access, is there something you've done with Microsoft Office that I haven't done--or can't do--with OpenOffice?
Heck, I can even think of a couple things I've done in OpenOffice that can't be done with Microsoft Office. Take superscript, for example. Yes, MS Office supports a superscript flag, but OpenOffice lets me apply varying degrees of superscript. And that's functionality I've needed.
I've also used OpenOffice to repair Microsoft Word documents that crashed Microsoft's product.
I tutor people in working with Microsoft Office every day, and every day I encounter things that lead me to believe that OpenOffice works better.