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Lego Addictions
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I was just wondering, with a LEGO story (ya know, one of those with the big red LEGO icon), is it possible to post something off topic? If so. have I just done it?
That stupid curved screen; those uncomfortable seats with your head cocked back scanning all that stuff you can't see because you're too damned close to the screen. Who needs that! I have NEVER had an immersive experience in an IMAX theater; I am always totally aware of the screen and the people around me. I am always wondering when the damned thing will end.
Which leaves me with the conclusion that no one here will admit: IMAX sucks, and 2 hours of SWE2:AOTC will suck just that much more.
Show that people who work long hours often spend an enormous amount of their work 'day' fixing errors. Overall it has been found that workaholics are rarely very productive. Their demonstrable output is rarely greater than other experienced workers working regular hours. These studies tie in well with the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory and nuclear industry (DoE) studies that describe long hours as a self fulfilling prophecy. Simply put, the more hours you work beyond 9-10 hours / day, the more errors you make and the more hours you MUST work to fix them.
One thing that is often hard to convince employers is that they must develop a work environment that provides workers with a solid 8 hours of undisturbed or rarely-disturbed work. You have only so many 'fresh' hours in a worker every day, you should not squander them. Having workers dealing with customers, working in open 'cubicled' environments that lack quite and privacy, WASTES valuable developer time. It never ceases to amaze me how many companies will try to save $100K on build-out and as a result jeopardize their $1M annual development budget.
Excuse my cynicism, but consider this:
If you want a high Google ranking you,
1) Start a web site called google-watch and publicize how bad Google is.
2) Get the media (Salon,/., etc) to write web articles about your "crusade" with lots of links to your sites.
3) Get lots of hits from those links, and lots of Google searches from people who want to see for themselves.
4) Get a real high Google rank.
Yes, I see now! There is a conspiracy here.
My guess is that they saw that Spielberg movie, thought it was a great idea but couldn't afford the Psychic Hotline @$2.95 a minute. So they bought MSSQL and a digital camera. . .
Darwin is the underlying OS (sans GUI and iApps) of OS X. OS X and OS X Server are both SMP-aware/capable-Mach-mk-under-BSD based OSs (really the same OS, the server version has more chrome). NetBSD is not supplying the SMP for OS X and Darwin, it's there already. There are no major performance problems with the server portion of OS X (although there are some lingering GUI performance issues and, of course, some Mac architectural issues).
The story has been misfiled under "mo-money-mo-money-yo dept." It should be filed under "our-greed-knows-no-bounds Dept."
Dude, you're going to hell. . .
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Damn, they got a localized version of Windows last week (ok, 2003, but it was announced last week, see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2164186.stm) , and now they get television. Bhutan is going to hell in a hurry.
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I was just wondering, with a LEGO story (ya know, one of those with the big red LEGO icon), is it possible to post something off topic? If so. have I just done it?
You should remember that Twain attributed the quote to Benjamin Disraeli.
will bill this as "Cryptography with balls."
That stupid curved screen; those uncomfortable seats with your head cocked back scanning all that stuff you can't see because you're too damned close to the screen. Who needs that! I have NEVER had an immersive experience in an IMAX theater; I am always totally aware of the screen and the people around me. I am always wondering when the damned thing will end. Which leaves me with the conclusion that no one here will admit: IMAX sucks, and 2 hours of SWE2:AOTC will suck just that much more.
Show that people who work long hours often spend an enormous amount of their work 'day' fixing errors. Overall it has been found that workaholics are rarely very productive. Their demonstrable output is rarely greater than other experienced workers working regular hours. These studies tie in well with the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory and nuclear industry (DoE) studies that describe long hours as a self fulfilling prophecy. Simply put, the more hours you work beyond 9-10 hours / day, the more errors you make and the more hours you MUST work to fix them. One thing that is often hard to convince employers is that they must develop a work environment that provides workers with a solid 8 hours of undisturbed or rarely-disturbed work. You have only so many 'fresh' hours in a worker every day, you should not squander them. Having workers dealing with customers, working in open 'cubicled' environments that lack quite and privacy, WASTES valuable developer time. It never ceases to amaze me how many companies will try to save $100K on build-out and as a result jeopardize their $1M annual development budget.
Excuse my cynicism, but consider this: If you want a high Google ranking you, 1) Start a web site called google-watch and publicize how bad Google is. 2) Get the media (Salon, /., etc) to write web articles about your "crusade" with lots of links to your sites.
3) Get lots of hits from those links, and lots of Google searches from people who want to see for themselves.
4) Get a real high Google rank.
Yes, I see now! There is a conspiracy here.
My guess is that they saw that Spielberg movie, thought it was a great idea but couldn't afford the Psychic Hotline @$2.95 a minute. So they bought MSSQL and a digital camera. . .
I can always find the coolest technology by just watching who they sue!
Darwin is the underlying OS (sans GUI and iApps) of OS X. OS X and OS X Server are both SMP-aware/capable-Mach-mk-under-BSD based OSs (really the same OS, the server version has more chrome). NetBSD is not supplying the SMP for OS X and Darwin, it's there already. There are no major performance problems with the server portion of OS X (although there are some lingering GUI performance issues and, of course, some Mac architectural issues).
The story has been misfiled under "mo-money-mo-money-yo dept." It should be filed under "our-greed-knows-no-bounds Dept."
Damn, they got a localized version of Windows last week (ok, 2003, but it was announced last week, see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2164186.stm) , and now they get television. Bhutan is going to hell in a hurry.