I've worked on several "standards" documents and I've found that they are mostly ignored because there are too many items. After you compile your list of items you want to control whittle the list down to the top ten that you expect people to know and follow and that you are willing to enforce in code walk-throughs. (You do code walk-throughs don't you?) Another suggestion is to let the developers vote on some of the items, they are usually more willing to follow conventions if they have some input and feel that there is a consensus.
While I agree with most of the complaints posted, I found I had a much better movie going experience overall when I attended independent or foreign films. The audience behavior was much, much better than when attending Hollywood films. Guess we're all "voting" with our dollar, as it should be.
CRTs are the way to go when you're editing images. LCDs can't reproduce the same range of colors that CRTs can. LCDs lean towards the blue end of the spectrum and have difficulty with wamer colors.
I've had success when I cheerfully informed them that I have my own software development projects in progress and that the software did not overlap with their business. Most potential employers did not have a problem with this and let me cross out the offending line in the employee contract, or, in some cases, make an adendum to the contract. Like the person said, it's in the attitude. (P.S. keep a copy)
I learned alot more when I switched over to digital because I wasn't worried about how much each click of the shutter was costing me and I got relatively instantaneous feed back. I was using Nikon's upper end Coolpix cameras which had manual over-ride for all of the controls. I recently switched over to a Canon EOS 10D digital SLR camera because I felt I couldn't control the focus well enough with the Coolpix cameras. See some pics
Haven't had a chance to use these ideas yet but someone else might find them useful.
Legos: Get a 4ft dia circle of nice cloth and sew a loop of soft rope into the edge that can act like a draw-string bag. After you're done
playing with the Legos, pull on the rope and toss the bag into the closet.
Another neat idea I saw was someone who had built a fake wall about 2ft infront of the real wall. The fake wall had nice woden moldings
that hid various doors that could pop open to get access to tons of storage. With all of the junk hidden the room actually felt
bigger even though it was 2ft shorter.
Woodworking: Although woodworking is another way to accumulate more stuff, I've found that custom built shelving and cabinets can
hold things more efficiently than any store bought storage solutions. It also gets you away from the computer for a while.
I'm using XP's backup sofware to backup my entire system to a removeable hard drive. My only problem is that to get a complete backup the utility wants to create a bootable floppy and with only one bay I can have the extra hard drive in it OR the floppy drive, but not both.
Suggestions?
OK, everyone knows AOL is not the best ISP, but how about someone offering up a list of ISP's that allow you to connect with a local phone call from about anywhere in the US (sorry non-US people), and allow you to have multiple email ID's. Oh yes, and supports high speed modems. I'm sure they're out there. Suggestions guys ?
I have read about unreliable CD-Rs before and since I use CD-Rs to back up some of my files I got to wondering how I would detect when one of my older CD-Rs had failed and which file(s) may have been corrupted. I ended up writing a Java program to build a CRC (cyclic redundancy check) index of the files just prior to burning the CD and I can re-run the program on the CD and it will tell me which (if any) files are now different.
It seems to me that something along these lines should be standard fare when it comes to backing up to CD-Rs. As others have already suggested: MAKE SEVERAL COPIES.
Does anyone know where to buy gold CD-Rs? Kodak has stopped making them.
If the government has determined that M$ is an illegal monopoly, how come that can't declare that all future software purchases made by the government be non-M$ ?
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I've worked on several "standards" documents and I've found that they are mostly ignored because there are too many items. After you compile your list of items you want to control whittle the list down to the top ten that you expect people to know and follow and that you are willing to enforce in code walk-throughs. (You do code walk-throughs don't you?) Another suggestion is to let the developers vote on some of the items, they are usually more willing to follow conventions if they have some input and feel that there is a consensus.
While I agree with most of the complaints posted, I found I had a much better movie going experience overall when I attended independent or foreign films. The audience behavior was much, much better than when attending Hollywood films. Guess we're all "voting" with our dollar, as it should be.
Is anyone else having a problem with Firefox not displaying columns correctly? See my example from Slashdot. I'm on Windows XP SP1.
Kodak no longer sells the "Gold" CD-R's that are supposed to last for a very long time. However, Mitsui (Colorado Springs, CO) is still selling them.
CRTs are the way to go when you're editing images. LCDs can't reproduce the same range of colors that CRTs can. LCDs lean towards the blue end of the spectrum and have difficulty with wamer colors.
I've had success when I cheerfully informed them that I have my own software development projects in progress and that the software did not overlap with their business. Most potential employers did not have a problem with this and let me cross out the offending line in the employee contract, or, in some cases, make an adendum to the contract. Like the person said, it's in the attitude. (P.S. keep a copy)
1.6180339887% of all statistics are made up.
I'd like to here suggestions on this too. Also, how do you "kill" an RFID?
I learned alot more when I switched over to digital because I wasn't worried about how much each click of the shutter was costing me and I got relatively instantaneous feed back. I was using Nikon's upper end Coolpix cameras which had manual over-ride for all of the controls. I recently switched over to a Canon EOS 10D digital SLR camera because I felt I couldn't control the focus well enough with the Coolpix cameras.
See some pics
Isn't that the basic issue with privacy, that there has been a long history of abuse and who would you really trust with your private information.
A bookshelf in the coffee room at work has been designated for a "free book exchange". Leave one / take one. Works great.
Large size heavy weight zip-loc bags !!!
Legos: Get a 4ft dia circle of nice cloth and sew a loop of soft rope into the edge that can act like a draw-string bag. After you're done playing with the Legos, pull on the rope and toss the bag into the closet.
Another neat idea I saw was someone who had built a fake wall about 2ft infront of the real wall. The fake wall had nice woden moldings that hid various doors that could pop open to get access to tons of storage. With all of the junk hidden the room actually felt bigger even though it was 2ft shorter.
Woodworking: Although woodworking is another way to accumulate more stuff, I've found that custom built shelving and cabinets can hold things more efficiently than any store bought storage solutions. It also gets you away from the computer for a while.
I'm using XP's backup sofware to backup my entire system to a removeable hard drive. My only problem is that to get a complete backup the utility wants to create a bootable floppy and with only one bay I can have the extra hard drive in it OR the floppy drive, but not both.
Suggestions?
I agree to your stated issues with plasma screens, however, LCD screens don't reproduce the warmer colors as well as plasma.
Sorry, but what does IANAL stand for?
It's not about ethics, it's about getting caught.
78.4% of all statistics are made up.
I here you are also supposed to pay royalties when you sing the "Happy Birthday" song in public. Strange world.
Can I run a C# on a Unix platform?
So, I've got lots of CD-Rs with photos archived on them, how do I tell which ones have been corrupted by data loss?
OK, everyone knows AOL is not the best ISP, but how about someone offering up a list of ISP's that allow you to connect with a local phone call from about anywhere in the US (sorry non-US people), and allow you to have multiple email ID's. Oh yes, and supports high speed modems. I'm sure they're out there. Suggestions guys ?
It seems to me that something along these lines should be standard fare when it comes to backing up to CD-Rs. As others have already suggested: MAKE SEVERAL COPIES.
Does anyone know where to buy gold CD-Rs? Kodak has stopped making them.
See todays dilbert for an insiteful look at shipping jobs off-shore.
If the government has determined that M$ is an illegal monopoly, how come that can't declare that all future software purchases made by the government be non-M$ ?