Can you put wife 1.0 and girlfriend 7.0 on different partitions and dual boot? Go to one or the other depening on your mood?
After partitioning properly, you'd have to install Wife first, and then Girlfiriend (in their respective partitions). Else if you reverse the process, Wife will overwrite the boot partition and (Girlfriend'd bootie loader)you'll never get to see Girlfriend without a boot disk.
Girlfriend is the more complex and stable of the programs. You can get right down to things and run whatever you want, any way you want. Simple commands like %tweak glands are possible with a huge number of satisfying options. Check the man page. She's not very big on resources, but yet the more you give her the happier she is and the more she'll put out^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdo for you.
Wife is a big colorful, yet moody kind of program. She has a very dumbed down interface, and doesn't do anything very well. There is a command line pack available that tries to emulate girlfirend commands but yet C:\tweak glands more often than not crashes the system. Which isn't really so bad becasue on a crash, you can reboot and get right into Girlfriend and do whatever you like.
>>But how important will famine, disease, and war be when 90% of the population has been wiped out by a massive asteroid and the effects after the collision? I'd say this is far more important.
The remaining 10% will surely not have it easy. Famine and disease will be an issue after the surface of the earth is devistated. Any you know, as sure as anything that they will find something to fight about. So the war is on. Sorry, but it's truth.
>>Someone at their office should stand up and say, "It's dead, Jim"
I can't figure out why they carry on this charade. It's been 7 whole years. Perhaps they should kill DNF, and announce a new game using whatever tech it is they're building on these days. Make the game good, earn some respect in the community (which they are lacking), and earn a couple of bucks to keep the company going. In parallel to this, they should rethink the next Duke game, using new technology, and set some realistic goals for it.
Myself, I wouldn't want to do business with family. Nothing but trouble methinks.
However, if I was running a business with family or friends, I'd manage them the same way I do at my real job. I'd lay out clear expectations and goals, and explain such before the person started working.
And if they didn't perform, I'd handle it the same way as well. I'd communicate the issues with the person, and I'd start documenting things. Records don't lie. And if it got bad enough that I had to fire him/her, I'd have enough justification from a business point of view to do it.
If the bad feeling reverberated into the family, and I caught shit for it, I'd just remind (or expain to) the person giving me a hard time that so and so has a history of not doing the job. I tried a bunch of times to talk to him and it didn't work out in the end. "basicly he wasn't doing his job and he was costing me money".
If the family can't understand this, then there's bigger problems, but at least I'd know that I was trying to do the right thing for everybody.
>>What happens if your girlfriend, God forbid, breaks up with you? Can you handle seeing her at work, knowing she's not your girlfriend anymore? The reverse is also true, she could resent you. Have a reasonable employment agreement for this.
Here's one. Say you break up with her, and then decide that you don't want to see her at work evey day. So you fire her. Which is I think is at least a natural thing to think about.
Now, would she be able to sue for discrimiation? Her case would most likely be that the firing wasn't job performance related. Not sure, but it's just a thought.
Anyway, this is a really good thread, and there's a lot of good knowledge in here. I've been thinking about starting a business of some sort, and have seen a couple of my initial questions answered already. This is why I love the net, it's great when a community of folks can get together on a topic and bring knowledge and ideas to the table. Nice job/.-ers.:)
It was a Pentium 75 with 16 mg RAM and 8mg of Video Ram.
I think the Matrox Millenium was right in the zone for DNF graphics.
Jeez, I remember back in the day that all the game mags, and the online community were talking about the race between DNF and Unreal (Quake had been released at this point). Which game had what feature, who's level editor would be better, yadda, yadda, yadda.
Looking back, it seems that all the fuss (while great, I really liked the hype and the speculation), was for nothing. Unreal came out late, minus a couple of features, and was worth the wait. DNF as we all know is currently minus every feature.
From the article: But Microsoft -- and Intel -- remain trapped in the megahertz race because Microsoft's basic Windows OS design is unable to take full advantage of even today's limited two-way thread concurrency.
So it's like the author is suggesting that Windows is obsolete, or almost there.
OK, but what is it that's going to keep windows from dying anytime soon? It seems to that MSFT will be able to keep Windows alive simply because it's entrenced in so many business environments. (And by the likes of dirty tricks like the SCO fiasco).
Sure, there's a small momentum growing in certain companies towards LINUX. But in my firm at least, nobody is seriuosly talking about the desktop.
>>Nothing helps take the pain of remembering that you destroyed your brain through drug-abuse than a little more self-medication.
On a serious note: Sadly, this is a big reason why many substance abusers don't have the willpower to get up and quit. They're too busy feeling sorry for how they've hurt themselves and others.
>>Do developers out there voice the need to store binaries?
Yup.
My project is versioning all our documentation. So that means Word and Excel files. Right now, we're doing it in Visual Source Safe (which I hate), but at the project start there was no alternative.
Also, on the development side, there are binary files: images, report definition files, vendor libraries... lots of stuff.
>>I mean, how many tons of stuff does a person eat and then shit out in their lifetime. Probably a lot more then 1.8 tons.
Yeah. But in the old days, before modern plumbing, you'd take a dump in a hole and a few years later you'd find a healthy and happy baby tree growing there. These days, it's all piped out to the nearest body of water. I'm no marine biologist, but I can't imagine that this is doing much good for our waters.
But back to what I wanted to say. Poop if fertilizer. Sure your body craps out those unused nutrients, but nature has a way of reusing them.
Sounds about right. From everything I've read MS ususally does a build once a day.
It takes 12 hours these days because of all the module/unit testing incorporated into the build.
I also remember reading that once the build is done, they roll it out to devloper desktops. Making the guys work with the OS they're working on sounds like a good way to help with QC.... If you're responsible for a buggy build, your peers are going to them and make your life miserable.
Milestone builds, which happen less frequently, apparently get rolled out to corporate desktops.
Maybe 4053 is a milestone build. Or maybe it's just an old leak.
If I were making the movie, I'd have Kong run past Radio Row on his way uptown. Except that he'd stop for a moment, shed a tear, and then continue up to 34th street.
I dunno, I think that'd be a nice subtle little tribute.
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Can you put wife 1.0 and girlfriend 7.0 on different partitions and dual boot? Go to one or the other depening on your mood?
After partitioning properly, you'd have to install Wife first, and then Girlfiriend (in their respective partitions). Else if you reverse the process, Wife will overwrite the boot partition and (Girlfriend'd bootie loader)you'll never get to see Girlfriend without a boot disk.
Girlfriend is the more complex and stable of the programs. You can get right down to things and run whatever you want, any way you want. Simple commands like %tweak glands are possible with a huge number of satisfying options. Check the man page. She's not very big on resources, but yet the more you give her the happier she is and the more she'll put out^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hdo for you.
Wife is a big colorful, yet moody kind of program. She has a very dumbed down interface, and doesn't do anything very well. There is a command line pack available that tries to emulate girlfirend commands but yet C:\tweak glands more often than not crashes the system. Which isn't really so bad becasue on a crash, you can reboot and get right into Girlfriend and do whatever you like.
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Buzzwords baby. That's the ticket.
What's more ikely to get funded in the corporate environment, a distributed networked(yawn) application or a J2EE(!!$$!!) application?
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>>But how important will famine, disease, and war be when 90% of the population has been wiped out by a massive asteroid and the effects after the collision? I'd say this is far more important.
The remaining 10% will surely not have it easy. Famine and disease will be an issue after the surface of the earth is devistated. Any you know, as sure as anything that they will find something to fight about. So the war is on. Sorry, but it's truth.
wbs.
>>Someone at their office should stand up and say, "It's dead, Jim"
I can't figure out why they carry on this charade. It's been 7 whole years. Perhaps they should kill DNF, and announce a new game using whatever tech it is they're building on these days. Make the game good, earn some respect in the community (which they are lacking), and earn a couple of bucks to keep the company going. In parallel to this, they should rethink the next Duke game, using new technology, and set some realistic goals for it.
just my 2 cents.
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Myself, I wouldn't want to do business with family. Nothing but trouble methinks.
However, if I was running a business with family or friends, I'd manage them the same way I do at my real job. I'd lay out clear expectations and goals, and explain such before the person started working.
And if they didn't perform, I'd handle it the same way as well. I'd communicate the issues with the person, and I'd start documenting things. Records don't lie. And if it got bad enough that I had to fire him/her, I'd have enough justification from a business point of view to do it.
If the bad feeling reverberated into the family, and I caught shit for it, I'd just remind (or expain to) the person giving me a hard time that so and so has a history of not doing the job. I tried a bunch of times to talk to him and it didn't work out in the end. "basicly he wasn't doing his job and he was costing me money".
If the family can't understand this, then there's bigger problems, but at least I'd know that I was trying to do the right thing for everybody.
wbs.
>>What happens if your girlfriend, God forbid, breaks up with you? Can you handle seeing her at work, knowing she's not your girlfriend anymore? The reverse is also true, she could resent you. Have a reasonable employment agreement for this.
/.-ers. :)
Here's one. Say you break up with her, and then decide that you don't want to see her at work evey day. So you fire her. Which is I think is at least a natural thing to think about.
Now, would she be able to sue for discrimiation? Her case would most likely be that the firing wasn't job performance related. Not sure, but it's just a thought.
Anyway, this is a really good thread, and there's a lot of good knowledge in here. I've been thinking about starting a business of some sort, and have seen a couple of my initial questions answered already. This is why I love the net, it's great when a community of folks can get together on a topic and bring knowledge and ideas to the table. Nice job
wbs.
It was a Pentium 75 with 16 mg RAM and 8mg of Video Ram.
I think the Matrox Millenium was right in the zone for DNF graphics.
Jeez, I remember back in the day that all the game mags, and the online community were talking about the race between DNF and Unreal (Quake had been released at this point). Which game had what feature, who's level editor would be better, yadda, yadda, yadda.
Looking back, it seems that all the fuss (while great, I really liked the hype and the speculation), was for nothing. Unreal came out late, minus a couple of features, and was worth the wait. DNF as we all know is currently minus every feature.
But it'll be out "when it's done dammit."
wbs.
Just out of curiosity, is Mars far away from us that the constelations look different?
I know that it's a relatively small distance, from a galactic perspective, but is it still enough to make some difference?
Anyone?
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Gangrene
Leukemia
Montezuma's Revenge
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From the article:
But Microsoft -- and Intel -- remain trapped in the megahertz race because Microsoft's basic Windows OS design is unable to take full advantage of even today's limited two-way thread concurrency.
So it's like the author is suggesting that Windows is obsolete, or almost there.
OK, but what is it that's going to keep windows from dying anytime soon? It seems to that MSFT will be able to keep Windows alive simply because it's entrenced in so many business environments. (And by the likes of dirty tricks like the SCO fiasco).
Sure, there's a small momentum growing in certain companies towards LINUX. But in my firm at least, nobody is seriuosly talking about the desktop.
wbs.
>>And at night people are generally inside, watching TV? Given the relative expense between a space ad and tv ad...
Knowing this, the advertisers will probably go for a younger demographic. Aim at people who's lifestyles include them being outside at night.
wbs.
>>Nothing helps take the pain of remembering that you destroyed your brain through drug-abuse than a little more self-medication.
On a serious note: Sadly, this is a big reason why many substance abusers don't have the willpower to get up and quit. They're too busy feeling sorry for how they've hurt themselves and others.
It's easier to quit tomorrow than to quit today.
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I wonder how this would look if applied to the /. friends/foes database.
It'd be interesting to see how the community is aligned.
wbs.
All your Army Base are belong to us.
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Nothing like a couple of strategically placed mirrors to keep things interesting and fresh.
So THAT's what they look like from the side when they bounce......
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Or if you use that UNIX Services for Windows package that Microsoft has been handing out lately, you can:
/dev/fs/C/winnt
rm -fr
Ah, UNIX and Windows integration. Gotta love it.
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>>Do developers out there voice the need to store binaries?
Yup.
My project is versioning all our documentation. So that means Word and Excel files. Right now, we're doing it in Visual Source Safe (which I hate), but at the project start there was no alternative.
Also, on the development side, there are binary files: images, report definition files, vendor libraries... lots of stuff.
wbs.
>>I think we should consider whether legal liability will.
Fear is what motivates me.
If my wire system has a flaw which will allow someone to compromise it and send meoney out of the bank illegally I'll be out of a job.
Definitely motivation to find all possible bugs.
wbs.
>>I mean, how many tons of stuff does a person eat and then shit out in their lifetime. Probably a lot more then 1.8 tons.
Yeah. But in the old days, before modern plumbing, you'd take a dump in a hole and a few years later you'd find a healthy and happy baby tree growing there. These days, it's all piped out to the nearest body of water. I'm no marine biologist, but I can't imagine that this is doing much good for our waters.
But back to what I wanted to say. Poop if fertilizer. Sure your body craps out those unused nutrients, but nature has a way of reusing them.
wbs.
Sounds about right. From everything I've read MS ususally does a build once a day.
It takes 12 hours these days because of all the module/unit testing incorporated into the build.
I also remember reading that once the build is done, they roll it out to devloper desktops. Making the guys work with the OS they're working on sounds like a good way to help with QC.... If you're responsible for a buggy build, your peers are going to them and make your life miserable.
Milestone builds, which happen less frequently, apparently get rolled out to corporate desktops.
Maybe 4053 is a milestone build. Or maybe it's just an old leak.
wbs.
>>small screen TV (32")
I remember a time, not long ago that 32'' was considered big screen.....
Now you need a room with an empty wall the size of Texas for a big screen TV. What's next, wrap around TV for 2 or more walls?
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OK. Thanks. I didn't know that.
If I were making the movie, I'd have Kong run past Radio Row on his way uptown. Except that he'd stop for a moment, shed a tear, and then continue up to 34th street.
I dunno, I think that'd be a nice subtle little tribute.
wbs.
All of the contestants have already memorized the parent's URL's on sight, and will contribute to the Slashdotting by typing them in manually.
wbs.
If the WTC were still around, I wonder if Kong would climb them again instead of the Empire State.
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Both Schematic and Beardydog are right. Alchemists were definitely geeks in their time.
:) You're friends now.
For what it's worth, both of your posts made me laugh.
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