I completely agree. In the matter of publicly registered domains, personal responsibility is more important that personal privacy. IMO, legitimate reasons for being able to contact the owner of a domain outweigh any reasons for a registrant to hide his identity.
I wonder if they will ever take the word "prythee" out of their translation dictionary.
Not only that, I wonder how "Till the cow comes home" ever got in their translation dictionary to begin with! Any guesses on what they meant by it? Anyone?
This kind of looks like a crude first step towards M.A.N.T.I.S. - an old sci-fi show where a paraplegic puts on an exoskeleton and gets to be a superhero.
... for someone to come out with a decent quality mouse that's optical, wireless, has 3 buttons, and NO wheels!
All of my mice at home are 3-button with no wheel because that works best with X. At the office I've had to put up with a wheel mouse, and although the scrolling comes in handy, it gets extremely annoying when I try to simply middle-click on something and it accidentally turns into two middle clicks or it scrolls past the link I was aiming for.
The average computer programmer in India costs $20 per hour in wages and benefits, compared to $65 per hour for an American with a comparable degree and experience
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That's still a lot more than I'm making. I used to be a software engineer with a decent salary. Now I'm working as a tech support agent + system administrator + programmer + secretary for a small company who only pays me $15/hour. They tried to outsource the support and administration functions to a company in Russia for just $250/month total for their entire support team. But when the server computers started having real problems, they found out just how poor the quality of that support team was. Now they're trying to find another third-world company to handle support and administration for the same cost or lower. </RANT>
Has anyone noticed that the English translation of certain selected passages appear to have a decided slant toward Jehovah's Witnesses? I had always though the Latin word "dominus" was a regular noun meaning "lord" or "master", not a proper name.
Why does it have to look like Outlook to begin with? Why not Eudora-like, or Netscape Mail-like, or NeXTMail-like, or -*gasp*- have its own completely original interface!
I think the name Evoluion is highly appropriate. We should be able to just take the best features from every existing mail program, apply a well-established set of user interface guidelines, and combine it all to come up with something really great. Then repeat the process with the new batch of programs for the next evolutionary step.
My thoughts exactly. It's very easy for someone to put up a web site, and having it available to the whole world is simply inherent in being part of the Web. But just because anyone anywhere in the world can view the company's site, doesn't mean the company intended to market to the whole world.
Tried that; it failed to load. This was right after upgrading XFree86 from 4.2.0 to 4.3.0, and I still had the fglrx driver configured. I don't have the log file from that any more, but the error was something like "incorrect XFree86 version". I had to switch to XFree86's ati driver to get my display running again.
And how do they expect anyone to do this if they won't release documentation for it?
I have a Radeon 9700 Pro, and ATI had perfectly useable drivers for it for XFree86 4.1.0 and 4.2.0 (still has them under FireGL X1). Why don't they simply recompile it for XFree86 4.3.0 now?
From what he says in the article, it seems most of his anti-spam focus is on the MUA side. What he does say about stopping spam at the source relies mainly on government legislation (e.g. "senders would have to insert an "ADV:" label") which would do nothing to actually stop spam. He doesn't seem to understand that to really make a dent in the problem is going to take a global concerted effort on the part of all MTA administrators -- ISP's, network providers, hub systems, and even all unix newbies who run mail servers whether they know what they're doing or not.
I can think of two mork albums to add to the list: Moody Blues' "Days of Future Passed" (where each track depicts a time of the day from dawn to dusk), and The Who's "Tommy" (a rock opera).
It would make more sense to have any taxes collected by the seller's state or country of origin, not the buyer's. Not only is it much easier for companies to keep track of that way, but you may also see companies moving their businesses to states with lower sales tax rates, which in turn may cause states to compete with each other to reduce their sales taxes!
Of course, that's why such a scenario will never happen.:-P
Let's see if I got this: your boss wants to have high quality support for software but doesn't want to pay a lot for it? Sounds a lot like my boss. Cheap bastard. He also wants written guarantees that the software won't ever fail, as if there is any general-purpose software that doesn't include a "No Warranty" clause.
in my case, at least. I was too introverted as a child, and by the age of 12 it was too late to do anything about it. What I've often thought about doing, though, is living my childhood over knowing what I know now. Then I'd have the foresight and the willpower to take better care of myself physically, be more sociable, be nicer to my siblings, maybe make some good investments, and I'd know exactly who I should be chasing after in high school.;-)
What a project like this really needs is a good set of controllers -- joysticks, knobs, levers, trackballs, buttons, etc. that can be set up just like the arcade. I've looked around for PC controllers, but found almost nothing that wasn't some kind of variation on the single pot joystick or Nintendo/PS standard controller.
Between the number of SPAMs my ISP blocks and the number that have gotten through to my mailbox, it seems like an increase of at least 50% per year would be more accurate.
I don't remember Alta Vista ever being my first choice. Before Google, I always used Yahoo to look up sites by category (directory browsing), and either Excite or Infoseek for keyword searches. If those engines didn't turn up what I was looking for, then I'd try Alta Vista, because they would return many more results than anyone else.
The problem was that in most cases, Alta Vista returned so many results that the vast majority were irrelevant. It was difficult to wade through them to get to what I was actually looking for.
Am I the only one on/. who hates most of Adult Swim cartoons? I find the 'jokes' to be too crass and puerile, the dialog is dull, and the animation is crude (like a paper doll cutout from the original 70's cartoons). I wouldn't be surprised if these cartoons were made by pre-teens.
There are exceptions of course; Home Movies and Baby Blues are okay. (Though the BB cartoon was obviously written for a different target audience that the comic strip.)
I don't care to watch the anime stuff, except for the Dragonball series (which I love). But at least I don't find the anime shows offensive.
A professional cartoon like Futurama would be a welcome addition to Cartoon Network's line-up.
If they showed anything from the real cartoon era, such as G.I. Joe, Transformers (orignal), Centurions, TMNT, Mask, Thundercats, Dino Riders, etc., then I would care.
Ah, but they did show Thundercats for a while, earlier this year I think. Also G.I. Joe. It didn't seem to last very long, though.
This feels like deja-vu. I came out of college in 1991 with a BS in CS, and was unemployed for a couple of years (not counting a few temp jobs) until I landed a job at a fast food restaurant. After a year of that I found a job doing PC tech support, and a few years later (1997) finally found an opportunity in software development.
Then last year my wonderful company went under and I'm back where I started -- unemployed and looking at minimum-wage jobs. I'm afraid the last ten years are going to repeat themselves.
Is it possible...just possible that you can get a wider skill set in 21 years experience than you can in 7?
Broader or deeper, depending on which skills you can build with the opportunities you're given.
Which brings up a question: how did you suddenly "change" your skill set to video games? Did you doctor your resume, or did you happen to catch an opportunity in the game industry before they shut out everyone who hadn't already published a game?
I'm finding it very difficult to either broaden or deepen my skill set while I'm unemployed...
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I completely agree. In the matter of publicly registered domains, personal responsibility is more important that personal privacy. IMO, legitimate reasons for being able to contact the owner of a domain outweigh any reasons for a registrant to hide his identity.
Not only that, I wonder how "Till the cow comes home" ever got in their translation dictionary to begin with! Any guesses on what they meant by it? Anyone?
This kind of looks like a crude first step towards M.A.N.T.I.S. - an old sci-fi show where a paraplegic puts on an exoskeleton and gets to be a superhero.
... for someone to come out with a decent quality mouse that's optical, wireless, has 3 buttons, and NO wheels!
All of my mice at home are 3-button with no wheel because that works best with X. At the office I've had to put up with a wheel mouse, and although the scrolling comes in handy, it gets extremely annoying when I try to simply middle-click on something and it accidentally turns into two middle clicks or it scrolls past the link I was aiming for.
<RANT>
That's still a lot more than I'm making. I used to be a software engineer with a decent salary. Now I'm working as a tech support agent + system administrator + programmer + secretary for a small company who only pays me $15/hour. They tried to outsource the support and administration functions to a company in Russia for just $250/month total for their entire support team. But when the server computers started having real problems, they found out just how poor the quality of that support team was. Now they're trying to find another third-world company to handle support and administration for the same cost or lower.
</RANT>
Has anyone noticed that the English translation of certain selected passages appear to have a decided slant toward Jehovah's Witnesses? I had always though the Latin word "dominus" was a regular noun meaning "lord" or "master", not a proper name.
Why does it have to look like Outlook to begin with? Why not Eudora-like, or Netscape Mail-like, or NeXTMail-like, or -*gasp*- have its own completely original interface!
I think the name Evoluion is highly appropriate. We should be able to just take the best features from every existing mail program, apply a well-established set of user interface guidelines, and combine it all to come up with something really great. Then repeat the process with the new batch of programs for the next evolutionary step.
My thoughts exactly. It's very easy for someone to put up a web site, and having it available to the whole world is simply inherent in being part of the Web. But just because anyone anywhere in the world can view the company's site, doesn't mean the company intended to market to the whole world.
Tried that; it failed to load. This was right after upgrading XFree86 from 4.2.0 to 4.3.0, and I still had the fglrx driver configured. I don't have the log file from that any more, but the error was something like "incorrect XFree86 version". I had to switch to XFree86's ati driver to get my display running again.
Fortunately, thanks to a previous poster, I found a Radeon 9700 driver for XFree86 4.3.0 (version 2.9.13) at http://www.schneider-digital.de/html/download_ati. html. It works -- I can finally play Chromium again!
And how do they expect anyone to do this if they won't release documentation for it?
I have a Radeon 9700 Pro, and ATI had perfectly useable drivers for it for XFree86 4.1.0 and 4.2.0 (still has them under FireGL X1). Why don't they simply recompile it for XFree86 4.3.0 now?
From what he says in the article, it seems most of his anti-spam focus is on the MUA side. What he does say about stopping spam at the source relies mainly on government legislation (e.g. "senders would have to insert an "ADV:" label") which would do nothing to actually stop spam. He doesn't seem to understand that to really make a dent in the problem is going to take a global concerted effort on the part of all MTA administrators -- ISP's, network providers, hub systems, and even all unix newbies who run mail servers whether they know what they're doing or not.
I can think of two mork albums to add to the list: Moody Blues' "Days of Future Passed" (where each track depicts a time of the day from dawn to dusk), and The Who's "Tommy" (a rock opera).
Really? That would eliminate C/C++, lisp, Java, FORTRAN, perl, awk, sh, TeX, Scheme, Prolog, Python, .... What's left? BASIC?? Hah!
It would make more sense to have any taxes collected by the seller's state or country of origin, not the buyer's. Not only is it much easier for companies to keep track of that way, but you may also see companies moving their businesses to states with lower sales tax rates, which in turn may cause states to compete with each other to reduce their sales taxes!
:-P
Of course, that's why such a scenario will never happen.
Let's see if I got this: your boss wants to have high quality support for software but doesn't want to pay a lot for it? Sounds a lot like my boss. Cheap bastard. He also wants written guarantees that the software won't ever fail, as if there is any general-purpose software that doesn't include a "No Warranty" clause.
in my case, at least. I was too introverted as a child, and by the age of 12 it was too late to do anything about it. What I've often thought about doing, though, is living my childhood over knowing what I know now. Then I'd have the foresight and the willpower to take better care of myself physically, be more sociable, be nicer to my siblings, maybe make some good investments, and I'd know exactly who I should be chasing after in high school. ;-)
What a project like this really needs is a good set of controllers -- joysticks, knobs, levers, trackballs, buttons, etc. that can be set up just like the arcade. I've looked around for PC controllers, but found almost nothing that wasn't some kind of variation on the single pot joystick or Nintendo/PS standard controller.
Between the number of SPAMs my ISP blocks and the number that have gotten through to my mailbox, it seems like an increase of at least 50% per year would be more accurate.
I don't remember Alta Vista ever being my first choice. Before Google, I always used Yahoo to look up sites by category (directory browsing), and either Excite or Infoseek for keyword searches. If those engines didn't turn up what I was looking for, then I'd try Alta Vista, because they would return many more results than anyone else.
The problem was that in most cases, Alta Vista returned so many results that the vast majority were irrelevant. It was difficult to wade through them to get to what I was actually looking for.
Am I the only one on /. who hates most of Adult Swim cartoons? I find the 'jokes' to be too crass and puerile, the dialog is dull, and the animation is crude (like a paper doll cutout from the original 70's cartoons). I wouldn't be surprised if these cartoons were made by pre-teens.
There are exceptions of course; Home Movies and Baby Blues are okay. (Though the BB cartoon was obviously written for a different target audience that the comic strip.)
I don't care to watch the anime stuff, except for the Dragonball series (which I love). But at least I don't find the anime shows offensive.
A professional cartoon like Futurama would be a welcome addition to Cartoon Network's line-up.
Ah, but they did show Thundercats for a while, earlier this year I think. Also G.I. Joe. It didn't seem to last very long, though.
Yeah, but what if you're making $0.00?
This feels like deja-vu. I came out of college in 1991 with a BS in CS, and was unemployed for a couple of years (not counting a few temp jobs) until I landed a job at a fast food restaurant. After a year of that I found a job doing PC tech support, and a few years later (1997) finally found an opportunity in software development.
Then last year my wonderful company went under and I'm back where I started -- unemployed and looking at minimum-wage jobs. I'm afraid the last ten years are going to repeat themselves.
Broader or deeper, depending on which skills you can build with the opportunities you're given.
Which brings up a question: how did you suddenly "change" your skill set to video games? Did you doctor your resume, or did you happen to catch an opportunity in the game industry before they shut out everyone who hadn't already published a game?
I'm finding it very difficult to either broaden or deepen my skill set while I'm unemployed...