HP's all-in-one (Fax/Scanner/Printer) models are pretty decent and very convenient to use. I have one. the trouble I have with them is almost always related to the software. HP has struggled with its software support products since they started making scanners, etc. At work we need scanning to record paper receipts, but we have to turn the poor printer on and off between individual scans, because the TWAIN/USB interface is so bad. I've had countless troubles with my printer at home. It's ironic that the company that was all gung-ho to go into software in the era of Carly still cannot make a decent driver today, after how many years?
I first took notice of her for her work on the webbased miniseries The Guild. She's quite a likeable character, though the series itself kinda ran its course after the first few webisodes. Later seasons actually feature Wil Wheaton, which is probably why they're still working together on this new collaboration.
unless you're a private contractor, you're not going to make a lot of money off the government. the oversight is too steep.
government is expensive, not because it pays out huge secret bonuses to individuals, but because it pays out average wages to hordes of pencil-pushing regulators who watch each other and make sure no one is breaking the rules, which are in a constant state of flux.
Exactly. This reveals what HP really wants... Their employees to work on products that they can sell, but that doesn't actually cost them anything to develop. It's just more evidence of a sad long tragic downward spiral of a company that once had one of the most respected research and development departments, now a vacant shell, desperately acquiring companies with even the slightest semblance of buzzworthy technology, only to have no idea what to do with them once they get them. Meanwhile the quality engineering and tech-based managers that knew their stuff are being replaced with cheaper alternatives and MBAs that have studied processes but have no idea what to do with them. RIP HP.
I disagree. Mr Savage's actions are no different than a group of kids in the playground deciding to equate some unpopular kid's name with something clearly distasteful. Santorum's political opinions may be offensive, but they're out there as part of a public discussion. Relabeling Santorum's name to mean something vile is childish and does nothing to help open communication between rival factions on the playground. You wouldn't put up with this sort of behavior in Elementary school, yet somehow because it's gotten the attention of Stephen Colbert and Google, it's okay? If you don't like Santorum (I personally don't) then talk to his issues, don' t resort to immature nonsense like deliberately attempting to skew search engine results.
Shouldn't China regard its own citizens as human beings? Who cares what you think the USA thinks about China? Is it the USA's job to regulate the environment in China? I'd think that China would be interested in China's environment. Likewise I would expect China to regard its citizens as human beings. If China creates cheaper products by killing its own, is that really a cost-effective way to conduct longterm business?
Dennis, You'll always be in our memory, even if we did forget to malloc it... or check array boundaries... or any of the other memory-based things C makes us do manually.;)
Transporting people to other planets is not a cost efficient method of population control, and never will be. That (pretended) problem should be solved on earth, not in space.
There ought to be a serious business for E-Book Editors out there... providing a certain level of editing quality--perhaps with a graded pay/service model that enables authors to pay for editing services but not break the bank.
I have to admit I'm torn by this story. Sure software patents are the bane of all that's fine and decent in the world, but Zynga is the bane of all that's fine and decent in gaming. So a part of me wants to see the two parties sue each other into oblivion... but then, I tend to like Blizzard's games... Sigh... why does the world have to be so darn complicated?
I think Perl is a fantastic language--in fact it's my favorite language of all time. Heck, I just released a new tool at my work last week using Perl and CGI to help organize about 4 years worth of file changes from an active CVS archive into relevant categories.
Perl's not a language for the faint-hearted, however. It is not a language you sit down and instantly you have a webpage going--which is what most people want to do these days when it comes to casual programming. For that, PHP and Ruby seem to be a lot more accessible.
I've been using Perl for over ten years now, and I find that I'm still learning something new about how to use the language in fascinating ways--pretty much every day. Nothing compares to Perl's community. You can talk with experts daily if you like, on sites like http://www.perlmonks.org/ and the documentation is all accessible at http://perldoc.perl.org/ or with every install of perl by just typing perldoc... I love how easy it is to move data about. It really was the first language to fully incorporate hashing as a basic operator and though variable sigils confuse a lot of people used to simpler programming languages, such notation allows for some amazingly flexible operations without the need to create lengthy method calls for every basic operation on your data structures. In Perl every symbol has specific/distinct meaning and interoperates with all others, and those combinations make for some very powerful programs with few lines of code--like how you can load full hashes by acessing them with the array operator as hash slices... and who can compare to Perl's enhanced regular expressions, especially the latest from v. 5.12...
Anyhow there are languages for the pedantic, there are languages for your project managers and your CS grads, and for your code-generators--or for outsourcing to India, and then there's languages that really get your inner geek going... and Perl definitely reigns supreme for my inner geek.:)
My experience has been that many with tattoos have a persecution complex. Sure they got the tattoo, and they put it on some publicly viewable part of their bodies. But even a partial eye-roll at some naked-lady tattoo that's all warped by dramatic weight gain, and apparently the rest of society is "always judging me". Buwahaha. Imo, Tattoos are for people who want to believe that their neighbors are discriminating against them unfairly. Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
Having worked in the Game industry, we get these sorts of people who have the latest greatest idea for a game and all they need is a programmer (or so they claim). Of course they have no idea how much actual work is involved in the creation of whatever they want to do, and most of the time the project they suggest is based upon a game they fell in love with when they were just teenagers and think that if only a programmer were to whip up this modernized, albeit plagiarized, version, that they're going to make millions and everyone will see the game idea guy as the genius he knows he is. Of course, the old and established game industry has plenty of success plagiarizing games, so why would it open its doors to people off the streets to do the same?
I believe one of the reasons why students cheat on the Humanities is because we don't value the humanities and we force students to take course that they simply aren't interested in. Sure, I suppose there are those who could use these services to go through their whole education and use this as a crutch--I bet there are those that get in over their heads, but I don't see this as the trend, because eventually you have to be able to hold an intelligent conversation with people. What I believe these services do is allow students the opportunity to get through work they simply will never have any interest in--or they BELIEVE they won't be interested in. When was the last time a person with an English Degree really had value in society? And since when is essay writing all that valuable in say the techie world? Heck, this guy that's writing all these papers, probably is the most entrepreneurial English major around.
Sure professors can do more to breathe life into their subjects. Sure they can test harder and stop giving the same tests to students and using the same identical curriculum year after year (which is where most cheating in college occurs, btw... just ask the foreign grad students who have whole batteries of "study aids" that they pass around in secret). Sure they could even find new ways to teach the humanities, or they could even get rid of the requirements for those who don't value the arts of taking them... but ultimately I think mostly we just need to take a step back and start acknowledging that these classes are worth doing a good job at--even if they won't be the primary source of income for students.
Hey, this can't be all bad... With video feedback, perhaps movie professionals could automate audience reactions to various scenes, and systematically improve their movie products. Also murders within theaters could go down... and when the couples in the corner start making out, maybe the theater employees would grab some popcorn and get a good show. See? It's not all bad... being watched all the time. Ahem.
I've got a buddy from Bluecoat. They regularly search for these sites, and he says their company regularly reports malware sites to Google. He said there was a time when their software blocked Google because it wouldn't clean up its act. Things have changed.
I wonder if they ripped _Age_of_Wonders'_ Adjacent Hex rule... Every unit immediately adjacent the hex where the attack could occur were also pulled into that hex for combat. This added a new level of strategy, in that you moved your stacks in groups of three. Modified to include extra range (two hexes adjacent, for example), could be a cool mod to that rule.
this is a pretty standard Microsoft tactic. they add a billion features based upon a dozen standards and only implement about 30% of the standard. they claim they have the features, but they're implemented crappily--at least until people start screaming about it, and then they'll maybe implement 50% of it.
this can be as simple as importing HTML into a Word document, and having it just decide not to support CSS in certain formats. Their browser supports it, but word only partly does.
I think this happens because they have a lot of money, so they throw a lot of money at the initial implementation, but then leave the rest of it up to the thousands of code-monkeys to fix/polish and improve their standards, and they don't have a clue. Further why fully implement a standard that only a small fraction of users will use to a level of expertise that requires detailed support?
So we're stuck with "good enough".
My dad (has PhD in a scientific field from Cornell) told me that when submitting a thesis to a review board of professors, it really doesn't matter how "Tough" a professor is as long as that professor in your committee has a rival. Take advantage of their ego with an equally assertive ego. You purposefully choose the rival professor to join your committee as well. Then they'll spend all the review board discussions and presentations contradicting and arguing one with another, and in the end they'll both be so incensed, that they cancel each other out, and it doesn't matter what you presented... I guess the TFA is only pointing out that this occurs at the publishing level as well.
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HP's all-in-one (Fax/Scanner/Printer) models are pretty decent and very convenient to use. I have one. the trouble I have with them is almost always related to the software. HP has struggled with its software support products since they started making scanners, etc. At work we need scanning to record paper receipts, but we have to turn the poor printer on and off between individual scans, because the TWAIN/USB interface is so bad. I've had countless troubles with my printer at home. It's ironic that the company that was all gung-ho to go into software in the era of Carly still cannot make a decent driver today, after how many years?
I first took notice of her for her work on the webbased miniseries The Guild. She's quite a likeable character, though the series itself kinda ran its course after the first few webisodes. Later seasons actually feature Wil Wheaton, which is probably why they're still working together on this new collaboration.
unless you're a private contractor, you're not going to make a lot of money off the government. the oversight is too steep. government is expensive, not because it pays out huge secret bonuses to individuals, but because it pays out average wages to hordes of pencil-pushing regulators who watch each other and make sure no one is breaking the rules, which are in a constant state of flux.
Exactly. This reveals what HP really wants... Their employees to work on products that they can sell, but that doesn't actually cost them anything to develop. It's just more evidence of a sad long tragic downward spiral of a company that once had one of the most respected research and development departments, now a vacant shell, desperately acquiring companies with even the slightest semblance of buzzworthy technology, only to have no idea what to do with them once they get them. Meanwhile the quality engineering and tech-based managers that knew their stuff are being replaced with cheaper alternatives and MBAs that have studied processes but have no idea what to do with them. RIP HP.
Let me guess... you're divorced.
I disagree. Mr Savage's actions are no different than a group of kids in the playground deciding to equate some unpopular kid's name with something clearly distasteful. Santorum's political opinions may be offensive, but they're out there as part of a public discussion. Relabeling Santorum's name to mean something vile is childish and does nothing to help open communication between rival factions on the playground. You wouldn't put up with this sort of behavior in Elementary school, yet somehow because it's gotten the attention of Stephen Colbert and Google, it's okay? If you don't like Santorum (I personally don't) then talk to his issues, don' t resort to immature nonsense like deliberately attempting to skew search engine results.
It's more an example of Internet Bullying.
I'm mormon and I don't feel weird. (I have however been accused of being an optimist; and, in a place like this, that can seem weird. :)
Shouldn't China regard its own citizens as human beings? Who cares what you think the USA thinks about China? Is it the USA's job to regulate the environment in China? I'd think that China would be interested in China's environment. Likewise I would expect China to regard its citizens as human beings. If China creates cheaper products by killing its own, is that really a cost-effective way to conduct longterm business?
The world sees only the pricetag and the product.
Dennis, You'll always be in our memory, even if we did forget to malloc it... or check array boundaries... or any of the other memory-based things C makes us do manually. ;)
Transporting people to other planets is not a cost efficient method of population control, and never will be. That (pretended) problem should be solved on earth, not in space.
Same here. Cheer's CmdrTaco! Here's to a normal life...
There ought to be a serious business for E-Book Editors out there... providing a certain level of editing quality--perhaps with a graded pay/service model that enables authors to pay for editing services but not break the bank.
I have to admit I'm torn by this story. Sure software patents are the bane of all that's fine and decent in the world, but Zynga is the bane of all that's fine and decent in gaming. So a part of me wants to see the two parties sue each other into oblivion... but then, I tend to like Blizzard's games... Sigh... why does the world have to be so darn complicated?
I think Perl is a fantastic language--in fact it's my favorite language of all time. Heck, I just released a new tool at my work last week using Perl and CGI to help organize about 4 years worth of file changes from an active CVS archive into relevant categories.
Perl's not a language for the faint-hearted, however. It is not a language you sit down and instantly you have a webpage going--which is what most people want to do these days when it comes to casual programming. For that, PHP and Ruby seem to be a lot more accessible.
I've been using Perl for over ten years now, and I find that I'm still learning something new about how to use the language in fascinating ways--pretty much every day. Nothing compares to Perl's community. You can talk with experts daily if you like, on sites like http://www.perlmonks.org/ and the documentation is all accessible at http://perldoc.perl.org/ or with every install of perl by just typing perldoc... I love how easy it is to move data about. It really was the first language to fully incorporate hashing as a basic operator and though variable sigils confuse a lot of people used to simpler programming languages, such notation allows for some amazingly flexible operations without the need to create lengthy method calls for every basic operation on your data structures. In Perl every symbol has specific/distinct meaning and interoperates with all others, and those combinations make for some very powerful programs with few lines of code--like how you can load full hashes by acessing them with the array operator as hash slices... and who can compare to Perl's enhanced regular expressions, especially the latest from v. 5.12...
Anyhow there are languages for the pedantic, there are languages for your project managers and your CS grads, and for your code-generators--or for outsourcing to India, and then there's languages that really get your inner geek going... and Perl definitely reigns supreme for my inner geek. :)
In fact, Some people call it magic.
Just in time for the Holidays!! Ah. Brings back memories!
My experience has been that many with tattoos have a persecution complex. Sure they got the tattoo, and they put it on some publicly viewable part of their bodies. But even a partial eye-roll at some naked-lady tattoo that's all warped by dramatic weight gain, and apparently the rest of society is "always judging me". Buwahaha. Imo, Tattoos are for people who want to believe that their neighbors are discriminating against them unfairly. Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
Having worked in the Game industry, we get these sorts of people who have the latest greatest idea for a game and all they need is a programmer (or so they claim). Of course they have no idea how much actual work is involved in the creation of whatever they want to do, and most of the time the project they suggest is based upon a game they fell in love with when they were just teenagers and think that if only a programmer were to whip up this modernized, albeit plagiarized, version, that they're going to make millions and everyone will see the game idea guy as the genius he knows he is. Of course, the old and established game industry has plenty of success plagiarizing games, so why would it open its doors to people off the streets to do the same?
I believe one of the reasons why students cheat on the Humanities is because we don't value the humanities and we force students to take course that they simply aren't interested in. Sure, I suppose there are those who could use these services to go through their whole education and use this as a crutch--I bet there are those that get in over their heads, but I don't see this as the trend, because eventually you have to be able to hold an intelligent conversation with people. What I believe these services do is allow students the opportunity to get through work they simply will never have any interest in--or they BELIEVE they won't be interested in. When was the last time a person with an English Degree really had value in society? And since when is essay writing all that valuable in say the techie world? Heck, this guy that's writing all these papers, probably is the most entrepreneurial English major around.
Sure professors can do more to breathe life into their subjects. Sure they can test harder and stop giving the same tests to students and using the same identical curriculum year after year (which is where most cheating in college occurs, btw... just ask the foreign grad students who have whole batteries of "study aids" that they pass around in secret). Sure they could even find new ways to teach the humanities, or they could even get rid of the requirements for those who don't value the arts of taking them... but ultimately I think mostly we just need to take a step back and start acknowledging that these classes are worth doing a good job at--even if they won't be the primary source of income for students.
The good thing about having a computer right in your wall is that when the thing overheats, your wall burns down... taking out your whole house.
Hey, this can't be all bad... With video feedback, perhaps movie professionals could automate audience reactions to various scenes, and systematically improve their movie products. Also murders within theaters could go down... and when the couples in the corner start making out, maybe the theater employees would grab some popcorn and get a good show. See? It's not all bad... being watched all the time. Ahem.
I've got a buddy from Bluecoat. They regularly search for these sites, and he says their company regularly reports malware sites to Google. He said there was a time when their software blocked Google because it wouldn't clean up its act. Things have changed.
I wonder if they ripped _Age_of_Wonders'_ Adjacent Hex rule... Every unit immediately adjacent the hex where the attack could occur were also pulled into that hex for combat. This added a new level of strategy, in that you moved your stacks in groups of three. Modified to include extra range (two hexes adjacent, for example), could be a cool mod to that rule.
this is a pretty standard Microsoft tactic. they add a billion features based upon a dozen standards and only implement about 30% of the standard. they claim they have the features, but they're implemented crappily--at least until people start screaming about it, and then they'll maybe implement 50% of it. this can be as simple as importing HTML into a Word document, and having it just decide not to support CSS in certain formats. Their browser supports it, but word only partly does. I think this happens because they have a lot of money, so they throw a lot of money at the initial implementation, but then leave the rest of it up to the thousands of code-monkeys to fix/polish and improve their standards, and they don't have a clue. Further why fully implement a standard that only a small fraction of users will use to a level of expertise that requires detailed support? So we're stuck with "good enough".
My dad (has PhD in a scientific field from Cornell) told me that when submitting a thesis to a review board of professors, it really doesn't matter how "Tough" a professor is as long as that professor in your committee has a rival. Take advantage of their ego with an equally assertive ego. You purposefully choose the rival professor to join your committee as well. Then they'll spend all the review board discussions and presentations contradicting and arguing one with another, and in the end they'll both be so incensed, that they cancel each other out, and it doesn't matter what you presented... I guess the TFA is only pointing out that this occurs at the publishing level as well.