Maybe your CSS development is a bit more exotic than mine. I've just started working on CSS pages and having to re-work every page I create to look right in IE6 got old real fast. Easily doubled the time it to took make a page. I load the same page in IE7 and it looks fine.
The CSS support may not be "Perfect", but it's close enough to the rest of the browsers on the market for me.
The bad news is that I still have to design with IE6 in mind. It'll be years before it's useage rate is low enough to ignore.
I also hate the UI for IE7. I'm hoping that they locked it down for the Beta, and will unlock the normal release.
I've tried to install TA Spring on Debian and at this point I'm of the opinion that there shouldn't be libraries on the end users computer at all. Put the onus on the developer to decide if a library is too buggy. Make the source code available, but ultimately, just have binaries. How many years have we been playing with package managers?
Keeping track of libraries and versions is just crazy and offers no benifit to a user who just wants to install the software and get it to work. Yes, it will increase the download size of the software. Big deal. It's a far better option than not being able to get the software to compile.
I feel sorry for the Lebanese, as they are not really responsible for Hezbollah attacks...
Actually they are. A country is responsible for the going-ons within its borders. If I were to start an organization in the US to attack Canada, the US government would be responsible for it. If the US government is unable or unwilling to do something about it, it is within Canada's rights to invade the US and hunt down my organization and I.
The buck stops here. And if you're living within a Democratic country, it actually stops with its citizens.
Outsourcing usually involves getting rid of entry level positions in a company. Look at the job ads today and the current "Junior" or "Entry level positions" in IT require years of experience just to be considered. It used to be that if you graduated college, you had a shot at the first rung in the company.
Now that there is no low level pool of workers in the company to promote, businesses are having a hell of a time finding people to hire for higher level positions. I was just looking at http://www.avaya.com/gcm/master-usa/en-us/corporat e/careers/careers.htm, a local branch. Every single one of their job ads required 5 to 8 years of experience in the specific job field. Almost every time I talk to someone about how hard it is to find good IT help, I tell them to grab someone from their internship program. Usually their response is "Oh, right, we should implement one of those."
And if all human beings are equally deserving of those opportunities, then you should be against outsourcing. Because those opportunities are no longer available in the host country.
How about switching to a used car for $1-2k and erase the car payments?"
Because some of us have to show up for work on time. Have too many problems with your car and you're fired. Oh, and I'd like to not frighten women away from me by the car I'm driving.
Americans "need" a new car for each adult. Only adult in the house. 2000 Corrola, purchased used.
We "need" cell phones, Pay as you go. 1000 minutes will last me the whole year.
high speed internet, I'm in IT. Backups and restores need the high speed. Not only do I draw an extra paycheck a month for my IT work, but I also use this for VoIP. Great for cutting down on the phone bills.
premium cable, My *one* vice. HD cable. I use the lowest package available to get this.
nice big houses out in the suburbs.
Condo. Bought on foreclosure.
Lets not forget that we "deserve" to treat ourselves to $5 cups of coffee every morning, and eating out fairly often (heck I don't have time to pack a lunch!).
I use instant. And I work a 12.5 hour shift, 13.5 if you include the commute. I don't have a wife to pack a lunch, clean, wash dishes or do clothes for me. This, combined with my special diet, means I don't have time to "Pack a lunch"
Frankly. You've been spoiled. I'm getting by on my income, but my paycheck has gone down 31% since I've started working here. And it's been pure hourly.
The good news is that if I can get a regular job making 45k a year, life will be roses and song.
And to everyone else who feels like one-upping me. Shut up, I don't care. I will not live off of white rice or bicycle 24 miles to work dressed in clothes I've made myself by weaving straw.
My logic is lacking? I'm not saying you implied anything.
The apple can be in the box.
also means
The apple can be out of the box.
You've essentially said nothing useful about the location of the apple, just that the apple fits in the box.
"Just making the point that pursuing money at the expense of other things can eventually be counter productive."
That's not a point, that's just flapping your gums to hear the sound of your own voice. You've said absolutely nothing of use or of note. You've taken no stand. You've dispensed exactly zero useful advice.
I'll assume at this point you work at a high paying job.
Are you kidding me? How about "Can't find an enjoyable job?"
Seriously, do great jobs just rain out of the sky for you or what? I'm currently training my off-shore replacement and expect to be unemployed by the end of the year.
And life is very, very, hard to enjoy when you're not making good money. Almost everything enjoyable costs money. And you just can't let yourself enjoy the moment if you're worried about "How much am I paying for this?"
I was going to wait until the AM2 sockets came out, but my PC had problems last November and I had to replace the MB and CPU. I've been having a great time with my 3800+ ever since.
Some people will balk at the price difference between the Pentium D and the 3800+, I design my system to be cool. A high effiency power supply and the 3800+ means less heat generated.
That was my first post on this topic, but my history with Perl is...
It took me several days to get a very basic perl script to work. The error messages for a non-functioning script are horrible.
I ended up trying to get help from the #perl channel on IRC. I was dressed down for presenting them with a script that didn't have those switches turned on, that I had no idea existed. Went and fixed it up just the way they wanted it, and was told my issue was with the module I was using at the time. No way to have known it acted like that without experience.
Writing out a few lines of code shouldn't be an exercise in frustration; at least with C you get a decent debugger. I'm learning Ruby and it's been wonderful so far.
So far I like it. Which is not to say I'm problem free.
And I've only been using it for a couple of days, and a couple hours into it my router stopped working, so this. I've never used any other Linux flavor as a desktop machine. I keep a Linux box on the side and I use it for experimentation.
I'm almost done getting things to where I want them to be, the biggest issue was:
It doesn't check to see if you're using a dual-core processor. Top said I had a load of 11, just from regular use. You have to install the SMP kernel manually; it's very easy to do though. Just select from their package manager, install, reboot.
Their package manager is pretty good; their support forum is great. I get 2 months of unlimited email support. And I bought the Premium edition, which comes with Crossover Office. In case there's a Windows program that I just can't live without.
MP3 ripping and playing worked "Out of the box". Although there was no box since I chose the online download. I could have saved 20$ by ordering it through Amazon, but I was ready to switch over ASAP.
It came with some software for moving your Windows settings over, but I really didn't have a lot to move over. My Firefox settings moved over really well, my background picture didn't.
GAIM wasn't offered on their "Supported Software" package manager. But it's very easy to add other Debian sources and use those.
I know what you mean about the free distros. And Xandros has been great with the stuff...within its reach. At any rate, it's nice to be able to email them because you can be sure they'll help you. Instead of joining an IRC channel, or tossing out a question on a message board in the hopes that some kind soul will help you out.
So let's get this straight. You are pirating windows, but you have the money to go out and buy Xandros?
"At that point I realized I had to make a decision, either send money to MS and stick with Windows. Or start getting serious about Linux."
See those words there? The part where I'm deciding to send money to MS or a Linux company?
But to expand on why I haven't purchased a copy of Windows...
I've built all my own PCs.
Every time you install a new motherboard, you need to wipe and install so Windows will load the correct drivers. Yes it's possible to do a repair, but it's better this way. Every time my system slows to a crawl for all the cruft Windows builds up, wipe and reinstall. Every time my system becomes corrupted beyond repair, wipe and reinstall.
How many times can I use a legit serial before MS says "Sorry man, it's no good anymore."
I refuse to buy a system that will cripple itself under the very ordinary circumstances I've mentioned above. When I pirated the OS, it's not an issue.
So then I decide to go legit. I'm going with anything but Windows.
Slashdot Mirror
Also zero.
I bought one of those projectors designed for business people. It can do 1080i and I use a component to VGA adapter to do it.
Maybe your CSS development is a bit more exotic than mine. I've just started working on CSS pages and having to re-work every page I create to look right in IE6 got old real fast. Easily doubled the time it to took make a page. I load the same page in IE7 and it looks fine.
The CSS support may not be "Perfect", but it's close enough to the rest of the browsers on the market for me.
The bad news is that I still have to design with IE6 in mind. It'll be years before it's useage rate is low enough to ignore.
I also hate the UI for IE7. I'm hoping that they locked it down for the Beta, and will unlock the normal release.
I've tried to install TA Spring on Debian and at this point I'm of the opinion that there shouldn't be libraries on the end users computer at all. Put the onus on the developer to decide if a library is too buggy. Make the source code available, but ultimately, just have binaries. How many years have we been playing with package managers?
Keeping track of libraries and versions is just crazy and offers no benifit to a user who just wants to install the software and get it to work. Yes, it will increase the download size of the software. Big deal. It's a far better option than not being able to get the software to compile.
I feel sorry for the Lebanese, as they are not really responsible for Hezbollah attacks...
Actually they are. A country is responsible for the going-ons within its borders. If I were to start an organization in the US to attack Canada, the US government would be responsible for it. If the US government is unable or unwilling to do something about it, it is within Canada's rights to invade the US and hunt down my organization and I.
The buck stops here. And if you're living within a Democratic country, it actually stops with its citizens.
Uh, who cares? Going out and slaying monsters is Fantasy. Who needs aliens? Did we run out of hostile humans?
Outsourcing usually involves getting rid of entry level positions in a company. Look at the job ads today and the current "Junior" or "Entry level positions" in IT require years of experience just to be considered. It used to be that if you graduated college, you had a shot at the first rung in the company.
Now that there is no low level pool of workers in the company to promote, businesses are having a hell of a time finding people to hire for higher level positions. I was just looking at http://www.avaya.com/gcm/master-usa/en-us/corporat e/careers/careers.htm, a local branch. Every single one of their job ads required 5 to 8 years of experience in the specific job field. Almost every time I talk to someone about how hard it is to find good IT help, I tell them to grab someone from their internship program. Usually their response is "Oh, right, we should implement one of those."
And if all human beings are equally deserving of those opportunities, then you should be against outsourcing. Because those opportunities are no longer available in the host country.
Because some of us have to show up for work on time. Have too many problems with your car and you're fired. Oh, and I'd like to not frighten women away from me by the car I'm driving.
Americans "need" a new car for each adult.
Only adult in the house. 2000 Corrola, purchased used.
We "need" cell phones,
Pay as you go. 1000 minutes will last me the whole year.
high speed internet,
I'm in IT. Backups and restores need the high speed. Not only do I draw an extra paycheck a month for my IT work, but I also use this for VoIP. Great for cutting down on the phone bills.
premium cable,
My *one* vice. HD cable. I use the lowest package available to get this.
nice big houses out in the suburbs.
Condo. Bought on foreclosure.
Lets not forget that we "deserve" to treat ourselves to $5 cups of coffee every morning, and eating out fairly often (heck I don't have time to pack a lunch!).
I use instant. And I work a 12.5 hour shift, 13.5 if you include the commute. I don't have a wife to pack a lunch, clean, wash dishes or do clothes for me. This, combined with my special diet, means I don't have time to "Pack a lunch"
Frankly. You've been spoiled. I'm getting by on my income, but my paycheck has gone down 31% since I've started working here. And it's been pure hourly.
The good news is that if I can get a regular job making 45k a year, life will be roses and song.
And to everyone else who feels like one-upping me. Shut up, I don't care. I will not live off of white rice or bicycle 24 miles to work dressed in clothes I've made myself by weaving straw.
The what system?
Yes, you'll be a hero to Ralph to the end of time.
The term you're looking for is "Snappier".
And if AMD is crushed out of existance becuase Intel abuses their Monopoly position, leading to 2000$ processors, hey, that's Capitalism, right?
Sometimes, it's not just about you.
Eh? That sounds like every medical procedure since the dawn of time. Everything used today had to be tested on human subjects at one point.
Even if you skip the human testing and just bring it out to market, your first thousand customers will end up being the unoffical human testers.
The apple can be in the box.
also means
The apple can be out of the box.
You've essentially said nothing useful about the location of the apple, just that the apple fits in the box.
That's not a point, that's just flapping your gums to hear the sound of your own voice. You've said absolutely nothing of use or of note. You've taken no stand. You've dispensed exactly zero useful advice.
I'll assume at this point you work at a high paying job.
Wow, you're really going out on a limb there.
You realize you've also just stated "Pursusing money at the expense of other things might end up being very productive" ?
Are you kidding me?
Do you know how much money 25 thousand pounds is in US dollars? That's 46k *That's* your minimum?
Since I've only made over that once in my lifetime, am I allowed to be unhappy now?
Are you kidding me? How about "Can't find an enjoyable job?"
Seriously, do great jobs just rain out of the sky for you or what? I'm currently training my off-shore replacement and expect to be unemployed by the end of the year.
And life is very, very, hard to enjoy when you're not making good money. Almost everything enjoyable costs money. And you just can't let yourself enjoy the moment if you're worried about "How much am I paying for this?"
It's been about 9 months since I've sent my last Mail in Rebate. Still waiting for that lamp assembly Benq!
Oh, and they disconnected their Rebate phone line.
Won't the 4 core chip use the AM2 socket?
I was going to wait until the AM2 sockets came out, but my PC had problems last November and I had to replace the MB and CPU. I've been having a great time with my 3800+ ever since.
Some people will balk at the price difference between the Pentium D and the 3800+, I design my system to be cool. A high effiency power supply and the 3800+ means less heat generated.
The UI is not "irrelevant", it's one of the most irritating things about using a Mac.
I wouldn't. Civilians have no business wandering around a war zone. And you're supposed to clean up the minefield after you're done with it.
That was my first post on this topic, but my history with Perl is...
It took me several days to get a very basic perl script to work. The error messages for a non-functioning script are horrible.
I ended up trying to get help from the #perl channel on IRC. I was dressed down for presenting them with a script that didn't have those switches turned on, that I had no idea existed. Went and fixed it up just the way they wanted it, and was told my issue was with the module I was using at the time. No way to have known it acted like that without experience.
Writing out a few lines of code shouldn't be an exercise in frustration; at least with C you get a decent debugger. I'm learning Ruby and it's been wonderful so far.
So far I like it. Which is not to say I'm problem free.
And I've only been using it for a couple of days, and a couple hours into it my router stopped working, so this. I've never used any other Linux flavor as a desktop machine. I keep a Linux box on the side and I use it for experimentation.
I'm almost done getting things to where I want them to be, the biggest issue was:
It doesn't check to see if you're using a dual-core processor. Top said I had a load of 11, just from regular use. You have to install the SMP kernel manually; it's very easy to do though. Just select from their package manager, install, reboot.
Their package manager is pretty good; their support forum is great. I get 2 months of unlimited email support. And I bought the Premium edition, which comes with Crossover Office. In case there's a Windows program that I just can't live without.
MP3 ripping and playing worked "Out of the box". Although there was no box since I chose the online download. I could have saved 20$ by ordering it through Amazon, but I was ready to switch over ASAP.
It came with some software for moving your Windows settings over, but I really didn't have a lot to move over. My Firefox settings moved over really well, my background picture didn't.
GAIM wasn't offered on their "Supported Software" package manager. But it's very easy to add other Debian sources and use those.
I know what you mean about the free distros. And Xandros has been great with the stuff...within its reach. At any rate, it's nice to be able to email them because you can be sure they'll help you. Instead of joining an IRC channel, or tossing out a question on a message board in the hopes that some kind soul will help you out.
Woah, that's messed up. Looks like there's a bug in the code that reversed the BLOCKQUOTE.
So let's get this straight. You are pirating windows, but you have the money to go out and buy Xandros?
If Perl is such a good language, shouldn't that be the default behaivor? Instead of having to add it in there for every script you write?