If you insist on making such an illiterate and incomprehensible post, I would strongly suggest that you avoid using the tt tag to make it stand out. It is at best otiose and at worst obnoxious.
I do not even let the company pay for my cell phone.
Well said. I have always adopted the same policy; I have known too many people with company phones who have been berated for not picking up when they're on the john.
It means, of course, that you have to set some ground-rules defining when you may or may not be called, since you create a bad smell if you refuse to give your boss your phone number...
Except that then you have to carry two laptops around, if you ever need to do any personal stuff over the same hours as your work stuff. Not my idea of fun.
Of course, some self-righteous twit is going to chime in here and say that you shouldn't be doing this, but my contention is that you are (I presume) permitted breaks, and what you do in that time is your concern.
...are fine for text if you don't want to use pen and paper (or can't remember how). You don't even need a machine to read punch-cards - you can do it by eyeball pretty easily though it might take a little while...
...my wife routinely steals mine (and a fresh blade), in order to do her legs.
Same here. And my wife usually doesn't see fit to mention it until after I've scraped half my face off with a blunt blade. Her legs don't feel that bristly to me, but they sure do take the edge off a razor pretty damn fast...
I used to be a blacksmith, and I still have my forge and tools. My favourite treatment is to heat the whole HDD assembly up to a nice orange/red colour (which is more than sufficient to demagnetise any media), then give it a few wallops with my 300 pound power hammer. The drive comes out about 1 millimetre thick, and I challenge even the most serious boffin to get any data off it after that.
If all you're looking for is laughs, then sure, the radio series is a well-conceived and witty means to that end.
The books, however, give the whole plot a depth that is lacking in the original series, and although Adams' wit and humour are more understated, they are nonetheless present.
As a generalisation (i.e. I'm not just talking about DNA's work here) I find it a bit saddening to see the outright laziness in the common tendency to dismiss the written word. Potted versions of novels rarely come up to scratch. Most of the richness of expression is either lost or thrown away.
You can refer to the Internet as the "cloud" if you want to, as in "cloud computing". But I reserve the right to slap you silly for doing it.
Well I don't much care what anyone calls it. I have not (yet) seen any implementation of "cloud computing" that is really worth looking at. Google Docs can be a sort of handy way for a group of people to work on a document, but that is pretty much it.
Dog help you if you try to use it to create a document for presentation to anyone else.
I can see why Google and Microsoft want to steer us in the direction of their web-based apps, but I can't see much in it for us. Workstation-based apps are here to stay.
If Microsoft was high on the list, I'd be surprised, or even Apple. IBM? Novell? Not so much.
In a way, I can sort of see Microsoft at least tentatively embracing Linux if that was the way the wind was blowing. However, I would be truly gobsmacked if Apple did, given their corporate culture which is even less inclusive than Microsoft's. Not that I am knocking Macs: I am using a MacBook right now, since it's a convenient way of having a species of Unix under the bonnet.
But ultimately, who cares who is paid to develop Linux? Everybody stands to gain, and it is no secret that outfits like IBM and Cray are using Linux code for their products. A few thousand corporate dollars is chump change to these large corporations given that they don't need to design a whole new OS from the ground up. Some great code might come from guys working in their mothers' basements, but there is lots of truly excellent code being produced by seasoned professionals under the aegis of big business.
If their work is put into the public domain (as it is), who can object to that?
From a business perspective, Paypal works pretty well.
It also does so from my (perhaps myopic) customer's perspective. I have used PayPal since before it got absorbed by FleaBay, and have (so far) had no problems with it. I feed my transactions through it from a Visa debit card, so there is a solid limit to how much they can possibly snatch if anything went wrong. Works for me.
I haven't been able to find it yet, but I believe this was mentioned on Slashdot at least a couple of years ago. Unless it was someone else running the same sort of site...
It's not "censorship" when you are free to go and start your own wiki if you disagree with the policies of Wikipedia.
Actually, I believe I have to disagree. Sure, you can argue along lines of "absoluteness" according to the pervasiveness of your chosen government's power.
But ultimately, if an individual (or group of individuals) suppresses a statement made by another individual, that qualifies as censorship by most definitions, regardless of whether the opus is "The Tin-Pot Journal of Macrame" or any of the output from Reuter's. Here's one example that comes conveniently to Google: "The suppression or proscription of speech or writing that is deemed obscene, indecent, or unduly controversial" (The Free Online Law Dictionary). One only has to disagree with the statement to make it controversial.
I'm a huge fan of Wikipedia, but this type of capricious use of influence leaves an unsavoury flavour in the mouth. I am pleased to be able to say, however, that I have rarely encountered it.
I don't think so. Apple has, in their infinite wisdom, discontinued their largest capacity iPod, the 160GB iPod Classic. I guess it wasn't skinny enough to match the wraithlike dimensions of Apple's CEO, but I wanted something that would take all of my music collection with room for it to grow. I was only just in time when I scored my iPod.
Well, there is always the option of buying CDs that don't have crap tracks on them. After all, if you can't get a preview before you buy, then don't.
I'm going to keep buying CDs for as long as I can for two reasons: (1) because my stereo makes the deficiencies in compression of tracks stand out like dogs' nuts, and (2) because I don't want to buy something that Apple/Sony/Whoever can revoke my "licence" to use whenever it suits them.
Plus having the GPU as an on-board component is a sure-fire recipe for disaster. Been there before, and never again, at least for desktop-type machines.
If you want something a bit more compact, you could always use something like the palm-sized Logitech diNovo Mini keyboard. I use one with an old Mac laptop I've relegated to handling internet media, and on the whole I'm pretty happy with it.
But my main reservation about this gadget is that it won't replace my (much-hated) LG HDD recorder for live-to-air stuff. I might need to spend some time looking at MythTV for this, but there seems to be a lot to learn here. Last time I looked at it, I only had a partially-supported analogue TV card, which didn't make the job any easier, and I ended up just throwing the card in the bin.
Indeed. Your parent poster is obviously ignorant of the fact that many users are for one reason or another constrained to the use of mobile connections with sucky bandwidth limits, or (worse) stuck with crappy dialup connections.
I have a basic mobile service myself, for use when I am away from home, and my limit would easily be breached if I were to allow free rein to all of the unsolicited dreck most sites choose to deliver.
Remember, this is the vision according to Rupert Murdoch. He's an old man, he doesn't own all the media, and he has a 20th-century vision of those that are left. So even if he did somehow have any sway over the others, the old "bums-on-seats" model of advertising just won't hold water any more.
If he doesn't realise now that the "pay-per-seat" model for news content won't attract customers, he'll realise it later. If he misses his boat, there'll be tears before bedtime.
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the whole planet having a diameter of just 19 cubits...
Aren't you kicking a bit below the belt to expect a fundamentalist to cope with non-euclidean geometry?
If you insist on making such an illiterate and incomprehensible post, I would strongly suggest that you avoid using the tt tag to make it stand out. It is at best otiose and at worst obnoxious.
I do not even let the company pay for my cell phone.
Well said. I have always adopted the same policy; I have known too many people with company phones who have been berated for not picking up when they're on the john.
It means, of course, that you have to set some ground-rules defining when you may or may not be called, since you create a bad smell if you refuse to give your boss your phone number...
Except that then you have to carry two laptops around, if you ever need to do any personal stuff over the same hours as your work stuff. Not my idea of fun.
Of course, some self-righteous twit is going to chime in here and say that you shouldn't be doing this, but my contention is that you are (I presume) permitted breaks, and what you do in that time is your concern.
...are fine for text if you don't want to use pen and paper (or can't remember how). You don't even need a machine to read punch-cards - you can do it by eyeball pretty easily though it might take a little while...
Kinda glad that they missed my street, so I don't have to worry about this.
Same here. The magic van drove past the end of my (dead-end) street, and didn't trouble to go down it. Suits me just fine, so I'm not complaining.
...my wife routinely steals mine (and a fresh blade), in order to do her legs.
Same here. And my wife usually doesn't see fit to mention it until after I've scraped half my face off with a blunt blade. Her legs don't feel that bristly to me, but they sure do take the edge off a razor pretty damn fast...
I used to be a blacksmith, and I still have my forge and tools. My favourite treatment is to heat the whole HDD assembly up to a nice orange/red colour (which is more than sufficient to demagnetise any media), then give it a few wallops with my 300 pound power hammer. The drive comes out about 1 millimetre thick, and I challenge even the most serious boffin to get any data off it after that.
If all you're looking for is laughs, then sure, the radio series is a well-conceived and witty means to that end.
The books, however, give the whole plot a depth that is lacking in the original series, and although Adams' wit and humour are more understated, they are nonetheless present.
As a generalisation (i.e. I'm not just talking about DNA's work here) I find it a bit saddening to see the outright laziness in the common tendency to dismiss the written word. Potted versions of novels rarely come up to scratch. Most of the richness of expression is either lost or thrown away.
I guess you don't know about Apple's contributions to webkit then huh?
Yes I do. I also know about CUPS, but the topic was the Linux kernel.
You can refer to the Internet as the "cloud" if you want to, as in "cloud computing". But I reserve the right to slap you silly for doing it.
Well I don't much care what anyone calls it. I have not (yet) seen any implementation of "cloud computing" that is really worth looking at. Google Docs can be a sort of handy way for a group of people to work on a document, but that is pretty much it.
Dog help you if you try to use it to create a document for presentation to anyone else.
I can see why Google and Microsoft want to steer us in the direction of their web-based apps, but I can't see much in it for us. Workstation-based apps are here to stay.
If Microsoft was high on the list, I'd be surprised, or even Apple. IBM? Novell? Not so much.
In a way, I can sort of see Microsoft at least tentatively embracing Linux if that was the way the wind was blowing. However, I would be truly gobsmacked if Apple did, given their corporate culture which is even less inclusive than Microsoft's. Not that I am knocking Macs: I am using a MacBook right now, since it's a convenient way of having a species of Unix under the bonnet.
But ultimately, who cares who is paid to develop Linux? Everybody stands to gain, and it is no secret that outfits like IBM and Cray are using Linux code for their products. A few thousand corporate dollars is chump change to these large corporations given that they don't need to design a whole new OS from the ground up. Some great code might come from guys working in their mothers' basements, but there is lots of truly excellent code being produced by seasoned professionals under the aegis of big business.
If their work is put into the public domain (as it is), who can object to that?
From a business perspective, Paypal works pretty well.
It also does so from my (perhaps myopic) customer's perspective. I have used PayPal since before it got absorbed by FleaBay, and have (so far) had no problems with it. I feed my transactions through it from a Visa debit card, so there is a solid limit to how much they can possibly snatch if anything went wrong. Works for me.
If it weren't so politically incorrect, this might almost be a legitimate purpose for dwarf-throwing. :-)
I haven't been able to find it yet, but I believe this was mentioned on Slashdot at least a couple of years ago. Unless it was someone else running the same sort of site...
How can Twitter users be a representative sample of the public as a whole?
Easily, provided that you are prepared to accept the basic premise that the public as a whole has the attention span of a flea.
Oh wait...
It's not "censorship" when you are free to go and start your own wiki if you disagree with the policies of Wikipedia.
Actually, I believe I have to disagree. Sure, you can argue along lines of "absoluteness" according to the pervasiveness of your chosen government's power.
But ultimately, if an individual (or group of individuals) suppresses a statement made by another individual, that qualifies as censorship by most definitions, regardless of whether the opus is "The Tin-Pot Journal of Macrame" or any of the output from Reuter's. Here's one example that comes conveniently to Google: "The suppression or proscription of speech or writing that is deemed obscene, indecent, or unduly controversial" (The Free Online Law Dictionary). One only has to disagree with the statement to make it controversial.
I'm a huge fan of Wikipedia, but this type of capricious use of influence leaves an unsavoury flavour in the mouth. I am pleased to be able to say, however, that I have rarely encountered it.
I guess if we gaze into our navels long enough, the probability is fairly high that we might find something interesting in there... ;-)
fucken loser w/ out of date ipod...
I don't think so. Apple has, in their infinite wisdom, discontinued their largest capacity iPod, the 160GB iPod Classic. I guess it wasn't skinny enough to match the wraithlike dimensions of Apple's CEO, but I wanted something that would take all of my music collection with room for it to grow. I was only just in time when I scored my iPod.
Well, there is always the option of buying CDs that don't have crap tracks on them. After all, if you can't get a preview before you buy, then don't.
I'm going to keep buying CDs for as long as I can for two reasons: (1) because my stereo makes the deficiencies in compression of tracks stand out like dogs' nuts, and (2) because I don't want to buy something that Apple/Sony/Whoever can revoke my "licence" to use whenever it suits them.
Plus having the GPU as an on-board component is a sure-fire recipe for disaster. Been there before, and never again, at least for desktop-type machines.
The keyboard looks horrifying, too.
If you want something a bit more compact, you could always use something like the palm-sized Logitech diNovo Mini keyboard. I use one with an old Mac laptop I've relegated to handling internet media, and on the whole I'm pretty happy with it.
But my main reservation about this gadget is that it won't replace my (much-hated) LG HDD recorder for live-to-air stuff. I might need to spend some time looking at MythTV for this, but there seems to be a lot to learn here. Last time I looked at it, I only had a partially-supported analogue TV card, which didn't make the job any easier, and I ended up just throwing the card in the bin.
Indeed. Your parent poster is obviously ignorant of the fact that many users are for one reason or another constrained to the use of mobile connections with sucky bandwidth limits, or (worse) stuck with crappy dialup connections.
I have a basic mobile service myself, for use when I am away from home, and my limit would easily be breached if I were to allow free rein to all of the unsolicited dreck most sites choose to deliver.
...yes even buy something.
Then you are part of the problem.
Remember, this is the vision according to Rupert Murdoch. He's an old man, he doesn't own all the media, and he has a 20th-century vision of those that are left. So even if he did somehow have any sway over the others, the old "bums-on-seats" model of advertising just won't hold water any more.
If he doesn't realise now that the "pay-per-seat" model for news content won't attract customers, he'll realise it later. If he misses his boat, there'll be tears before bedtime.
Brought to you by the Mixed-Metaphors-Department. No charge.