Male pattern baldness started at around the age of 21. 11 years later and I have to keep my remaining hair length at 2-3mm so it doesn't look stupid. I'm not Patrick Stewart yet but give it a few more years and I'll be baldly going where no man...
Does it really bother me? Not in the slightest but if I'd the choice I'd have put off the recession for ten years.
Now with the Winestripe theme, TabBrowser Preferences extension and a few other little hacks, I have it looking pretty much the same as 1.5.
I do like the little close button on focused tabs.
The suggested search words on the search box are nice.
The way FF remembers which sites were open when you need the restart FF is neat. It would be better if it remembered the text inside textboxes though - this is the second time I've typed this.
I just need to work out how to remove that drop down menu on the right side of the tabs and how to remove the left and right arrows. I suppose that'll be a userChrome.css or about:config hack too.
The spell check is neat too. I guess I won't be using the preview button on Slashdot any more:p
There's more than 9 reasons to keep using FF2. Thanks go out to the developers.
I'm going to go one step further and pirate all these. Take that Sony!
Sorry Slashdot swarm...
I mean I'm going to infringe Sony's copyrights! Take that Sony!...but I wouldn't have bought them anyway because I spend my money on flowers and plants. So I'm probably not hurting Sony at all. Um... Take that Sony!
I'm not allowed to use FF here at work so I can't remember the exact words but you should right click the arrow next time and choose "always allow flash from this site".
Myspace has become a common tool used by employers
Are you serious? You can't be. Who in their right mind would use My Space for job references?
If I found out that a potential employer was searching My Space for my details it would be the quickest interview ever. I wouldn't work for anyone who was that unprofessional.
Fuck, why not just give me a job based on my Slashdot karma. My karma is excellent by the way. I'll work for $15 an hour.
I have no graduate degrees but am experienced in engineering. I know the law of the jungle so well that some people think I'm Tarzan. I too have wondered what if would be like to sit on the other side of the table and what is may be like to have plenty of money.
Cars are designed to work for 10 years or 100,000 miles. They were designed like this 15 years ago and, as far as I know, the process is still the same. Making cars that last forever is not good business practice for car makers.
Yes, I worked in the auto industry for 8 years. Yes, I was on the project team for the BMW K5.
Number of residents in my town: 120,000 Number of shops in my area: 20 Number of houses in my area: 4,000 Number of new graffiti tags sprayed last night in my area: 3 Number of shop windows smashed over the weekend in my area: 2 Number of rubbish bags stolen from the front of my house in the last month: 6 Number of dog-shits on my drive in the past month: 5
Number of CCTV cameras pointed at public places in my area: 0
Yeah, the UK is just covered with CCTV cameras. I can't step outside my front door without being captured. Go to www.look-through-my-front-window.co.uk and you'll see me waving.
A personal nitpick (likely CSS related): you can't use bold or italics inside of a blockquote
Sure you can. Well, bold you can.
Using Firefox here if you care.
Please sort the Javascript out fully before implementing this. I like browsing the web on my old, old, old PC. Not all of us feel the need to upgrade our machines into gaming rigs. It plays DVDs, Xvid, MP3s, etc etc - it should be able to handle a bit of nicely coded JS.
Credit card companies, credit reference agencies and debt collection agencies deserve everything they get. They all live off people's missery. Would the world be a better place without them? Oh yes.
Due to redundancy, taking a new job close to family on lower wages and getting my partner pregnant, I fell into debt. For three years I learnt to play the game. Soon I will play the game again.
Note that I have no idea how to play the game in the USA nor would I want to.
1. Register with a debt charity. There are plenty. Listen to their advice but do not act on all of it.
2. Arrange low payment plans. Tell them you are registered will a debt charity. Tell creditors that you need £20 a week to spend on alcohol. £20? Oh yes. I don't drink but the game says you can claim this as a reasonable living expense. Cigarettes, no. Booze, yes. Amazing. Yearly holidays to visit family are also reasonable. They will stop the interest payments at this stage.
3. Move house if you are renting. It's easily done and will buy you another 12 months.
4. Save the money you would normally use to pay creditors monthly. Don't give them a penny.
5. Change your phone number. It's easlily done. Tell the phone company you are being harrased nightly by creditors. Everything should be done in writing.
6. Stand in front of a magistrate. It's scarey but it will buy you more time before the baliffs come knocking.
7. Demand to see the credit agreements you signed. Some creditor are so sloppy that they cannot find their own records. It will buy you a few more months anyway.
8. Finally, a few days before the baliffs come a knocking, phone your creditors. Offer them a settlement figure of 50%. You have the money because you've not been paying them for 24 months (see point 4). They ALL accept 60% but 50% is a good starting figure. Tell them you've just sold your car and if they don't take the money you'll spend it on a new car.
9. After you are debt free apply for a credit card. All greedy credit card companies will give you one. Use it the pay for the weekly shopping and no more. Pay it all off. Now you've just saved a month's worth of shopping bills.
10. Get your credit limit increased. Take out personal loans. Lather, rince and repeat and save yourself 40% on all your big purchases.
It takes brass bollocks at times but it's all part of the game.
Employ me or not. I can survive just fine without your job.
This story, and other stories mentioning recyled waste being shipped abroad, has been in all the major UK newspapers this week. The parent poster is telling no lies.
I have been following this as I live in the area where these bins are being used. This news story is from the same area:
Bin spy bug vigilante
AN ex-cop has removed spy bugs on wheelie bins and sent them back to the council.
Former chief inspector Martin Meeks said he and his neighbours were incensed at the microchips, which measure the waste thrown away.
The 62-year-old, of Winterbourne Monkton, Wilts, said: "If I had gone into someone's house as a police officer and planted a bug without approval, there would have been hell to pay."
Kennet District Council said it was illegal to tamper with the chips.
Go to Gaol, do not pass Go, do not tamper with the chips.
I've never understood why this doesn't happen either.
5 years ago my ISP ran a Usenet feed; the retention was 10 days, complete articles were at around 95% and they carried 99% of the groups. It was usable. One day, 5 years ago, they decided to cut the retention to 7 days and to drop the top 50 popular binary groups. These days they miss just over 1000 binary groups. Why?
All that happened was we moved all our download traffic to eMule, then BitTorrent or we bought proper Usenet feeds.
I even filled out a customer questionaire saying I would be willing to pay for a decent ISP usenet feed. They could have kept all the traffic inside their own network and saved a packet but they didn't. Where's the logic in that?
I'd tell you the spec of my machine but you'd all laugh at me. Its tenth birthday will be here soon...
I have none of these memory issues. I do block flash but I notice it loads then hides the object. Java is fine if the applet is not bloated. Properly written AJAX webpages are fine. Poorly written AJAX webpages (yes, you eBay) suffer.
My homepage is 8 tabs. Slow to display but fine after that. AND I run other programs alongside it like StrongDC, Newsbin Pro... on another screen via a second GFX card, I might add.
What the hell are you people doing with your systems that Firefox brings your system to a crawl?
It's always speed. There aren't any other factors.
After every crash ask yourself one question "If the driver was going slower could he have stopped in time?"
"The other driver just pulled out on me! I couldn't stop!" - You could have stopped if you were going slower.
"I didn't see the deer until it was too late!" - You could have stopped if you were going slower.
"The tyre burst! I lost control! There was nothing I could do!" - You could have stopped if you were going slower.
"I fell asleep at the wheel! The multiple pileup was the other drivers fault!" - You're a twat. And if the other cars were going slower they could have stopped.
No accidents are caused by stationary cars travelling at zero mph... apart from stopping on level crossings, airport runways etc. And even then, if the plane or train was going slower could it have stopped in time?
Speed limits. Just because it says 60mph on the sign doesn't mean it's safe to do 60mph. If you cannot stop in time then YOU'RE GOING TO FAST.
I always remember a careers evening I went to with my father 16 years ago. The careers adviser stood at the front of a large hall and asked all the parents "How many of you are still doing the same job that you did when you left school?". Out of 200 parents only a small handful of them raised their hands.
I left school at 16, took an engineering apprenticeship and slaved away at that for another 8 years. When redundancy called at the age of 25 I decided a change was needed. Many people told me that my 4-year apprenticeship would be wasted if I left the industry; I ignored them.
I too have always been interested in computer and suchlike. I had some HTML knowledge under my belt. I also had some knowledge of the core MS Office applications. An office life for me this time!
Once in a low-skilled role I learnt some Javascript to complement my HTML. I spoke to people and they said "learn how to store and retrieve data from databases and you're laughing" so I did. My manager learned of my new skills and asked me to build a few simple business applications. "What about VBA?" he said. "No" I said. He then sent me on some courses to learn that.
These days I write small browser based applications that help the business no end, crappy Excel spreadsheets, crappy Access databases - someone's got to do it. If I had the motivation to learn more then I could progress more.
I am 32 and I have another 38 years left of my working life.
Slashdot Mirror
I wish I had less testosterone.
Male pattern baldness started at around the age of 21. 11 years later and I have to keep my remaining hair length at 2-3mm so it doesn't look stupid. I'm not Patrick Stewart yet but give it a few more years and I'll be baldly going where no man...
Does it really bother me? Not in the slightest but if I'd the choice I'd have put off the recession for ten years.
Thank you very much.
:p
Now with the Winestripe theme, TabBrowser Preferences extension and a few other little hacks, I have it looking pretty much the same as 1.5.
I do like the little close button on focused tabs.
The suggested search words on the search box are nice.
The way FF remembers which sites were open when you need the restart FF is neat. It would be better if it remembered the text inside textboxes though - this is the second time I've typed this.
I just need to work out how to remove that drop down menu on the right side of the tabs and how to remove the left and right arrows. I suppose that'll be a userChrome.css or about:config hack too.
The spell check is neat too. I guess I won't be using the preview button on Slashdot any more
There's more than 9 reasons to keep using FF2. Thanks go out to the developers.
Yeah, you are right. I wonder how I hid the go button..?
Anyone know why this line in my userChrome.css no longer works in FF2?
menu[label="Go"] {
display: none !important;
}
Cheers.
I'm going to go one step further and pirate all these. Take that Sony!
...but I wouldn't have bought them anyway because I spend my money on flowers and plants. So I'm probably not hurting Sony at all. Um... Take that Sony!
Sorry Slashdot swarm...
I mean I'm going to infringe Sony's copyrights! Take that Sony!
I'm not allowed to use FF here at work so I can't remember the exact words but you should right click the arrow next time and choose "always allow flash from this site".
Are you serious? You can't be. Who in their right mind would use My Space for job references?
If I found out that a potential employer was searching My Space for my details it would be the quickest interview ever. I wouldn't work for anyone who was that unprofessional.
Fuck, why not just give me a job based on my Slashdot karma. My karma is excellent by the way. I'll work for $15 an hour.
The Coastguard!
I have no graduate degrees but am experienced in engineering. I know the law of the jungle so well that some people think I'm Tarzan. I too have wondered what if would be like to sit on the other side of the table and what is may be like to have plenty of money.
Can you lend me $1000 until payday?
Cars are designed to work for 10 years or 100,000 miles. They were designed like this 15 years ago and, as far as I know, the process is still the same. Making cars that last forever is not good business practice for car makers.
Yes, I worked in the auto industry for 8 years. Yes, I was on the project team for the BMW K5.
An interesting saying and one I've never heard before.
But thornless roses have been available for over 100 years.
Number of residents in my town: 120,000
Number of shops in my area: 20
Number of houses in my area: 4,000
Number of new graffiti tags sprayed last night in my area: 3
Number of shop windows smashed over the weekend in my area: 2
Number of rubbish bags stolen from the front of my house in the last month: 6
Number of dog-shits on my drive in the past month: 5
Number of CCTV cameras pointed at public places in my area: 0
Yeah, the UK is just covered with CCTV cameras. I can't step outside my front door without being captured. Go to www.look-through-my-front-window.co.uk and you'll see me waving.
Sure you can. Well, bold you can.
Using Firefox here if you care.
Please sort the Javascript out fully before implementing this. I like browsing the web on my old, old, old PC. Not all of us feel the need to upgrade our machines into gaming rigs. It plays DVDs, Xvid, MP3s, etc etc - it should be able to handle a bit of nicely coded JS.
Credit card companies, credit reference agencies and debt collection agencies deserve everything they get. They all live off people's missery. Would the world be a better place without them? Oh yes.
Due to redundancy, taking a new job close to family on lower wages and getting my partner pregnant, I fell into debt. For three years I learnt to play the game. Soon I will play the game again.
Note that I have no idea how to play the game in the USA nor would I want to.
1. Register with a debt charity. There are plenty. Listen to their advice but do not act on all of it.
2. Arrange low payment plans. Tell them you are registered will a debt charity. Tell creditors that you need £20 a week to spend on alcohol. £20? Oh yes. I don't drink but the game says you can claim this as a reasonable living expense. Cigarettes, no. Booze, yes. Amazing. Yearly holidays to visit family are also reasonable. They will stop the interest payments at this stage.
3. Move house if you are renting. It's easily done and will buy you another 12 months.
4. Save the money you would normally use to pay creditors monthly. Don't give them a penny.
5. Change your phone number. It's easlily done. Tell the phone company you are being harrased nightly by creditors. Everything should be done in writing.
6. Stand in front of a magistrate. It's scarey but it will buy you more time before the baliffs come knocking.
7. Demand to see the credit agreements you signed. Some creditor are so sloppy that they cannot find their own records. It will buy you a few more months anyway.
8. Finally, a few days before the baliffs come a knocking, phone your creditors. Offer them a settlement figure of 50%. You have the money because you've not been paying them for 24 months (see point 4). They ALL accept 60% but 50% is a good starting figure. Tell them you've just sold your car and if they don't take the money you'll spend it on a new car.
9. After you are debt free apply for a credit card. All greedy credit card companies will give you one. Use it the pay for the weekly shopping and no more. Pay it all off. Now you've just saved a month's worth of shopping bills.
10. Get your credit limit increased. Take out personal loans. Lather, rince and repeat and save yourself 40% on all your big purchases.
It takes brass bollocks at times but it's all part of the game.
Employ me or not. I can survive just fine without your job.
And I nominate that person to be you! All those in favour raise their hands.
Anyway, Abraham Biderman sounds like a bogus name for someone running major financial institutions. Ivor Bidalot would have been more believable.
I tried to find you an online source but failed.
This story, and other stories mentioning recyled waste being shipped abroad, has been in all the major UK newspapers this week. The parent poster is telling no lies.
I have been following this as I live in the area where these bins are being used. This news story is from the same area:
Go to Gaol, do not pass Go, do not tamper with the chips.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006400511,00 .html
I know it's The Sun but it has been in other local papers too.
I've never understood why this doesn't happen either.
5 years ago my ISP ran a Usenet feed; the retention was 10 days, complete articles were at around 95% and they carried 99% of the groups. It was usable. One day, 5 years ago, they decided to cut the retention to 7 days and to drop the top 50 popular binary groups. These days they miss just over 1000 binary groups. Why?
All that happened was we moved all our download traffic to eMule, then BitTorrent or we bought proper Usenet feeds.
I even filled out a customer questionaire saying I would be willing to pay for a decent ISP usenet feed. They could have kept all the traffic inside their own network and saved a packet but they didn't. Where's the logic in that?
I'd tell you the spec of my machine but you'd all laugh at me. Its tenth birthday will be here soon...
I have none of these memory issues. I do block flash but I notice it loads then hides the object. Java is fine if the applet is not bloated. Properly written AJAX webpages are fine. Poorly written AJAX webpages (yes, you eBay) suffer.
My homepage is 8 tabs. Slow to display but fine after that. AND I run other programs alongside it like StrongDC, Newsbin Pro... on another screen via a second GFX card, I might add.
What the hell are you people doing with your systems that Firefox brings your system to a crawl?
Get a charger that plugs into the cigarette lighter and stick that screwdriver back...
It's always speed. There aren't any other factors.
After every crash ask yourself one question "If the driver was going slower could he have stopped in time?"
"The other driver just pulled out on me! I couldn't stop!" - You could have stopped if you were going slower.
"I didn't see the deer until it was too late!" - You could have stopped if you were going slower.
"The tyre burst! I lost control! There was nothing I could do!" - You could have stopped if you were going slower.
"I fell asleep at the wheel! The multiple pileup was the other drivers fault!" - You're a twat. And if the other cars were going slower they could have stopped.
No accidents are caused by stationary cars travelling at zero mph... apart from stopping on level crossings, airport runways etc. And even then, if the plane or train was going slower could it have stopped in time?
Speed limits. Just because it says 60mph on the sign doesn't mean it's safe to do 60mph. If you cannot stop in time then YOU'RE GOING TO FAST.
Witty American? Where? Here?
Who can't spell litre and confuses the words 'rite' and 'right'?
Yes it does.
http://i1.tinypic.com/1zqzt5j.jpg
Oh c'mon, was that really called for?
People like you are part of the problem. I hope you enjoyed your 10 second giggle.
I always remember a careers evening I went to with my father 16 years ago. The careers adviser stood at the front of a large hall and asked all the parents "How many of you are still doing the same job that you did when you left school?". Out of 200 parents only a small handful of them raised their hands.
I left school at 16, took an engineering apprenticeship and slaved away at that for another 8 years. When redundancy called at the age of 25 I decided a change was needed. Many people told me that my 4-year apprenticeship would be wasted if I left the industry; I ignored them.
I too have always been interested in computer and suchlike. I had some HTML knowledge under my belt. I also had some knowledge of the core MS Office applications. An office life for me this time!
Once in a low-skilled role I learnt some Javascript to complement my HTML. I spoke to people and they said "learn how to store and retrieve data from databases and you're laughing" so I did. My manager learned of my new skills and asked me to build a few simple business applications. "What about VBA?" he said. "No" I said. He then sent me on some courses to learn that.
These days I write small browser based applications that help the business no end, crappy Excel spreadsheets, crappy Access databases - someone's got to do it. If I had the motivation to learn more then I could progress more.
I am 32 and I have another 38 years left of my working life.