I have used MS Office and OpenOffice. OpenOffice is usable, but cannot touch MS Office in terms of stability, speed, or features.
I have used MySQL and DB2. They are both frustrating to use, but MySQL cannot touch DB2 in terms of power and performance for large scale use. Postgres v. DB2 would perhaps be a better comparison, but I suspect DB2 would still win.
Most HD Radio stations will run multiple broadcasts, so the quality will be _worse_ than FM. "HD" is just a marketing gimmick. It does not mean "high definition".
I just installed it and gave it a shot. What on Earth possessed them to eat up part of the typing box for the controls instead of using a menu? Hopefully that will be changed in the Pidgin version.
My first thought was that it also means that you cannot see the toolbars of two different windows at the same time. But I cannot think of any situation in which I'd like to do this. Can anybody else?
"What happens if the user isn't paying attention and they[sic] . .."
. ..hits the gas on his car instead of the brake and drives through a building? . ..sets the toaster to dark and burns his toast? . ..holds his knife by the wrong end and cuts his hand off? . ..hits the hang up button on his phone instead of the answer button, and hangs up on his mother? . ..sets the pressure on his compressor to 120psi and breaks his 90psi impact wrench?
When you use your things wrong, things break. That is what happens.
O.T.P.S: When did people start replacing "his" with "their" and proceed to screw up all the verb conjugation? Is it an attempt at political correctness?
I disagree. The best two managers I have worked for had poor interpersonal skills, were not gregarious, and were basically anti-social. However, they organized tasks, set priorities, arranged specifications, requirements, and other related documents, and delegated the work; all with very little contact but a few well designed spreadsheets and well placed document repositories.
The job of a manager is to manage the company process and work flow, not to look important, make "tough" (easy/stupid) decisions, micromanage, and try to be all buddy-buddy with the employees (but fail miserably). However, most managers are very poor managers; they don't understand this, and they hire people just like them.
Most of the people who are good at managing have no interest in doing so.
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." - Douglas Adams
Reference checks are next to useless. Everybody who has been alive for more than a few years has fooled a couple of people into thinking that they are good people. Everybody who has been working for more than a few years has fooled a couple of people into thinking that they are good employees.
Call the company your candidate worked for, try to get a receptionist, and ask to talk with people at the company who worked _under_ your candidate.
Expected protocol is to have your lawyer specify what you want in the contract before any work is done or money paid.
If you didn't think/plan ahead, take whatever you can get.
Sorry if that sounds rude, but I spend most of my day dealing with other people not thinking/planning ahead and then expecting somebody else (i.e. me) to bail them out. It gets old.
This is fantastic. I don't think I'll ever set up identities, but the ability to manually type the From: is all have been wanting from Thunderbird/Icedove for a long time.
Actually, the poor state of documentation is probably one of the reasons did stick with Linux. If you have well laid out documentation, you can quickly find the answer to your question, and get on with your life. I have found that to find the answer to one question, I have to read dozens of wiki pages, many threads of mailing list archives, and ask a few questions in IRC. I may or may not have found the answer to my question, but I learned a bunch of other things, some of which will have come in useful later on.
Firefox has a lot of quirks. I write to the standards and use Firefox to test and work around it's quirks, and my pages then work just fine in KHTML/Safari. Sometimes I have to make minor changes to make it work in Opera.
Then I spend more time than it took to write the thing in the first place making it work in IE6. Then more minor changes for IE5 and IE7.
Wikis suck for documentation. Instead of a few people intelligently thinking how to lay out the documentation for a system, you have dozens or hundreds of people laying things out according to a whim. I have found good documentation on wikis, but it has always been by chance or search engine, and I can never find them again.
Or maybe I am just too rigid and structured to deal with information that isn't.
Now, if some enterprising soul set up a table of contents and a wiki with an automatically generating index and let the community fill it in, we'd have a good repository.
Because the OS runs applications that serve according to specifications. Apache on Linux speaks HTTP. Postfix on Linux speaks SMTP. JBoss on Linux speaks HTTP, JK, and various J2EE dialects. People read the specifications and write great software. The problem with things like these new browser plugins is that the specifications will not be available unless you pay a lot of money, and there will be patent and licensing issues.
"They have neither the motivation, nor the intellect to conceptualise or actually solve problems."
Just because they don't have the training, education, and experience to conceptualize and solve problems doesn't mean that they do not have the intellect to do so. If you take that attitude of "You are dumb because I know more than you about X." with customer service, you are not going to get a good response. Remember, many of them are college students, many of them are taking temp work between jobs, and many of them are smarter than you.
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I have used MS Office and OpenOffice. OpenOffice is usable, but cannot touch MS Office in terms of stability, speed, or features.
I have used MySQL and DB2. They are both frustrating to use, but MySQL cannot touch DB2 in terms of power and performance for large scale use. Postgres v. DB2 would perhaps be a better comparison, but I suspect DB2 would still win.
Most HD Radio stations will run multiple broadcasts, so the quality will be _worse_ than FM. "HD" is just a marketing gimmick. It does not mean "high definition".
I just installed it and gave it a shot. What on Earth possessed them to eat up part of the typing box for the controls instead of using a menu? Hopefully that will be changed in the Pidgin version.
Yup. If Apple didn't have iTMS, they would still have all the hardware sitting there turned on, doing nothing.
It is less awkward (and less correct) than saying "he" or "his".
Why do the moderators call me insightful when I'm trying to be a troll and a troll when I actually have insight?
Business communication - where the goal is NEVER to accurately convey thoughts or facilitate clear understanding.
My first thought was that it also means that you cannot see the toolbars of two different windows at the same time. But I cannot think of any situation in which I'd like to do this. Can anybody else?
"What happens if the user isn't paying attention and they[sic] . . ."
.hits the gas on his car instead of the brake and drives through a building? .sets the toaster to dark and burns his toast? .holds his knife by the wrong end and cuts his hand off? .hits the hang up button on his phone instead of the answer button, and hangs up on his mother? .sets the pressure on his compressor to 120psi and breaks his 90psi impact wrench?
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When you use your things wrong, things break. That is what happens.
O.T.P.S: When did people start replacing "his" with "their" and proceed to screw up all the verb conjugation? Is it an attempt at political correctness?
I disagree. The best two managers I have worked for had poor interpersonal skills, were not gregarious, and were basically anti-social. However, they organized tasks, set priorities, arranged specifications, requirements, and other related documents, and delegated the work; all with very little contact but a few well designed spreadsheets and well placed document repositories.
The job of a manager is to manage the company process and work flow, not to look important, make "tough" (easy/stupid) decisions, micromanage, and try to be all buddy-buddy with the employees (but fail miserably). However, most managers are very poor managers; they don't understand this, and they hire people just like them.
Most of the people who are good at managing have no interest in doing so.
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." - Douglas Adams
It is similar with managers.
Reference checks are next to useless. Everybody who has been alive for more than a few years has fooled a couple of people into thinking that they are good people. Everybody who has been working for more than a few years has fooled a couple of people into thinking that they are good employees.
Call the company your candidate worked for, try to get a receptionist, and ask to talk with people at the company who worked _under_ your candidate.
So what? "Indian Subcontinent" is never used to refer solely to India.
"Ours is going to do this anyways. Might as well do it while cutting out the requirement to make as much profit as possible off your users."
Because layers upon layers government bureaucratic bloat has proven _much_ better than corporate profits.
Windows beats Linux for usability for your grandma and your 14 year old niece.
Linux beats Windows for power users.
Can we move on?
Pakistan is on the Indian Subcontinent. I am very surprised that India would offer free internet access to Pakistan.
Oh.
I am not very surprised that the story submitter made a statement that is not in the story, and the Slashdot "editors" did not edit it out.
"What's needed is an independant[sic] review committee made up of non-lawyer citizens to review the actions of both Judges and Lawyers."
You mean like "voters"? That has worked _so_ well thus far.
Expected protocol is to have your lawyer specify what you want in the contract before any work is done or money paid.
If you didn't think/plan ahead, take whatever you can get.
Sorry if that sounds rude, but I spend most of my day dealing with other people not thinking/planning ahead and then expecting somebody else (i.e. me) to bail them out. It gets old.
This is fantastic. I don't think I'll ever set up identities, but the ability to manually type the From: is all have been wanting from Thunderbird/Icedove for a long time.
Actually, the poor state of documentation is probably one of the reasons did stick with Linux. If you have well laid out documentation, you can quickly find the answer to your question, and get on with your life. I have found that to find the answer to one question, I have to read dozens of wiki pages, many threads of mailing list archives, and ask a few questions in IRC. I may or may not have found the answer to my question, but I learned a bunch of other things, some of which will have come in useful later on.
Firefox has a lot of quirks. I write to the standards and use Firefox to test and work around it's quirks, and my pages then work just fine in KHTML/Safari. Sometimes I have to make minor changes to make it work in Opera.
Then I spend more time than it took to write the thing in the first place making it work in IE6. Then more minor changes for IE5 and IE7.
Then I go get a martini.
Wikis suck for documentation. Instead of a few people intelligently thinking how to lay out the documentation for a system, you have dozens or hundreds of people laying things out according to a whim. I have found good documentation on wikis, but it has always been by chance or search engine, and I can never find them again.
Or maybe I am just too rigid and structured to deal with information that isn't.
Now, if some enterprising soul set up a table of contents and a wiki with an automatically generating index and let the community fill it in, we'd have a good repository.
Because the OS runs applications that serve according to specifications. Apache on Linux speaks HTTP. Postfix on Linux speaks SMTP. JBoss on Linux speaks HTTP, JK, and various J2EE dialects. People read the specifications and write great software. The problem with things like these new browser plugins is that the specifications will not be available unless you pay a lot of money, and there will be patent and licensing issues.
You'd be more likely to see it from Sun or IBM. Apple writes software to push their own hardware.
"They have neither the motivation, nor the intellect to conceptualise or actually solve problems."
Just because they don't have the training, education, and experience to conceptualize and solve problems doesn't mean that they do not have the intellect to do so. If you take that attitude of "You are dumb because I know more than you about X." with customer service, you are not going to get a good response. Remember, many of them are college students, many of them are taking temp work between jobs, and many of them are smarter than you.
OpenOffice.org is also harder because it simply is not as good as Microsoft Office. I use it daily, it is just clumsier and buggier than MS Office.