This may be similar where you live, in Canada if a company requires that you keep your skill-set up-to-date then they are required to provide funding.
But the easy way out for some companies is to state that it is not a job-requirement.
3 points I want to make.
a) get out of there. it sounds like a poison place to work if they pull that kind of shit on you. b) When you do go for your training, make sure you do ALL studying, preparing on WORK time, do not bring it home with you. c) To answer your question; No it is not part of the IT climate. Like I said; get out of there.
I found out how to make the whole page look the way I want.
For the love of all that is holy, can we PLEASE get the abilty to EDIT our posts?! (To avoid abuse, limit the # of times and edit can occur and/or the amount of time after a post has been made).
You sir have read my mind. ST, ST:TNG, DS9 were all good considering there was nothing to compare them too. I have since been able to expand my viewing options and find my childhood favorites lacking.
Something like; All wine tastes like Champaign untill you've had Champaign.
"The evidence is compelling that body-on-frame light trucks cannot safely coexist with passenger cars under existing conditions. That problem is critical because so many light trucks are used nowadays as car substitutes."
This might have something to do with the way that the government allows trucks to be classified.
A truck is a utility/cargo vehicle, not a passenger vehicle. Trucks are required by law to have a 5 mile/h bumper, cars 10~15mile/hour. Fuel effiency/emmisions standards are not as stringent on cargo/utility vehicles. Mini-vans are also classified as utility/cargo vehicles.
The only reason that there is an appearance of improved saftey is the higher kinetic energy + higher sitting position that these monsters have over a standard family-sedan.
Make an add-on for Amarok. IMHO it is second to none when it come to managing your music collection. Imagine adding an optional Buy-Here tab with x+1 companies to buy your music from.
I have never bought music online, I never will. I would disable any tab that I saw like that in Amarok.
But my point is; Itunes is/was a good jukebox style player. iTunes has it's issues, alas it's not available natively for Linux.
Amarok excells as a music center, AND runs natively in Linux.
Everybody remembers the scene in Office Space where the whole room is covered in Post-It notes.
I did this.
I got in SOO much shit. My manager (the person who's office I did), kept bringing it up after 3 quarterly reviews and mentioned again for that last 2 Yearly reviews.
Then the fucker had the nerve to say that "We want to support an atmosphere of fun and play."
I agree 100%. This has been the only reason that I stay with Gnome. Yes, I can write a script to mount my usb devices, but this is a case where it "Just Works!" (tm) and I am thankfull for that.
I mostly use KDElibs, and evolution is my only 'Gnome app'. Honestly I wish I could get the auto-mounting perfection of Gnome in Xfce.
Another killer-feature of Gnome is the ability to scroll the contents of a background window without stealing focus. Great for coding, copy & paste, etc.
I hope you don't mind but I was hoping I could pick your brain a little.
I have been trying to run a 3-screen - 2-video card setup for some time now. I have had luck using 2 PCI cards but no luck running APG + PCI.
Regardless of which BIOS display option I choose (AGP first display vs PCI first display), whenever I boot with AGP & PCI video cards, I only get black output on my screens.
I am running Nvidia cards only.
If you could help, or if anybody else in this forum could provide me with a little insight as to what I am doing wrong, I would be very gratefull.
I just had a brain-fart. Why can't the auto-industry follow/mirror what happened to trains? Early trains started out as wood/coal burning toxic (and inefficient) monsters. They now mostly run diesel/electric. result: a) more powerfull b) better fuel economy c) less mechanical parts = fewer breakdowns = more reliable
Why not build a car that has 4 electric motors (one at each wheel), powered by a small diesel generator?
Hell you could even make a bank of batteries optional for extra fuel economy.
Most of us are old-farts when it comes to computing, so I won't bore you with a "I remember when..."
Alas I can't really tell the story without saying it.
Back in the dos days, it actually meant something when you told a person the you were 'into computers'.
Peers were few and far between, but we were the cornerstone of BBS networks, and damn were we ever geeky. (From hacking io.sys & msdos.sys, to building your own Lego-World to play RPGs in to scale.)
It was a special time. Nowadays everybody is 'into-computers' because they can send an email or click a mouse.
I first heard about Linux several years ago and always wanted to give it a try just because it sounded 'geeky-enough' and well different. I finally got my chance to give 'er a go with RedHat v5.2! it was up, down working and crashing but atleast I was able to run it. The complete lack of games (I was much more a gamer then) quickly let Linux lose its appeal.
Back to Windows I crawled. Thanks to the internet I have since tried MANY different distros, and I am 100% MS-free for the last 2 years. I do miss the games, but I try to occupy myself with building something new.
Ubuntu has kept me sane, the current games are very nice with even more on the way.
Now, if anybody asks I tell them that I am 'into Linux' and I get that strange wierdo look that I remember from school.
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Mod parent up....
There is obviously an idiot-angry teenager with mod-points to burn just wanting to be a pain in the ass.
I have heard many good things about Enders Game. It is actually on my short-stack of books to read. Then/. killed any respect that i might have ever had for this guy, and well now his book looks like it might goto the bottom of the pile.
We all yell at ATI & Nvidia to "open-up" their drivers. As in release it under the GPL. ATI & Nvidia don't want to because they say that the competition will learn all the cool tricks.
I know nothing about programming. Can't the competition just download a driver, decompile it and see all the tricks inside? It's not like they can hide the 1's and 0's.
How would releaseing the drivers as GPL make the drivers better?
The FUD from ZDNet is thick. Could this video card issue "prove" that the first company to open up the code will win?
I actually own a 1984 Honda NightHawk 650. I need "trunk-space" and the image of riding a motorcycle to a customers office is not what my company wants protrayed. (We get a paid a car-allowance, to ensure we maintain a certain level of business ettiquite.)
My first car was a 1993 Honda Civic CX (Hatchback). Driving it modestly netted me ~60mpg. I paid $12,000 (Canadian). Today to find a car that get that kind of mileage will cost me $25k-$30k.
WTF is going on? Are economy cars the "next-big-price-gouge"? Why are not all Standard cars getting 40+mpg? We have more platics in our cars then we did 12 years ago. We have smarter computers that manage fuel consumption better.
If my company didn't require a car for my job, I would cycle to work everyday.
I am going to see this movie tonight for one reason:
To vote with my $$ so that Hollywood suits can see that non-Trek SciFi can be suce$$full. My real motivation for this is Babylon5: The Memory of Shadows.
I am hoping that if Serenity can earn real money then perhaps TMoS will rise again.
I have tried watching Firefly, I don't like the whole cowboys in space angle. The entire technology needed to travel interstellar distances, should be 'good-enough' to produce laser-pistols, not 6-shooters!
Hauling cattle from one planet to another? Nah, I just can't suspend my disbelief.
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It's been done before.
A buddy had a Tandy PC that was equipped with DOS v3.3 in the BIOS (designated c:\)
It didn't work very well in practice, but in theory, damn it was cool.
(Among many software problems that he had due to c:\ being read-only, the whole system was slow as hell.)
That guys sounds like the voice of the Flash animation character in the Switch Linux video..
"...I have more friends now....."
Another vote for MOO2.
Isn't it telling that most of the itmes on the list are strategy-based games?
(I am surprised nobody mentioned Go yet.)
This may be similar where you live, in Canada if a company requires that you keep your skill-set up-to-date then they are required to provide funding.
But the easy way out for some companies is to state that it is not a job-requirement.
3 points I want to make.
a) get out of there. it sounds like a poison place to work if they pull that kind of shit on you.
b) When you do go for your training, make sure you do ALL studying, preparing on WORK time, do not bring it home with you.
c) To answer your question; No it is not part of the IT climate. Like I said; get out of there.
EDIT:
I found out how to make the whole page look the way I want.
For the love of all that is holy, can we PLEASE get the abilty to EDIT our posts?!
(To avoid abuse, limit the # of times and edit can occur and/or the amount of time after a post has been made).
I like the new design VERY much. One warning though; it is dangerously close to looking like an RSS feed. (for good or bad you decide.)
Is there an option to show 'ALL' stories the new way? (One line description/link)
You sir have read my mind. ST, ST:TNG, DS9 were all good considering there was nothing to compare them too. I have since been able to expand my viewing options and find my childhood favorites lacking.
Something like; All wine tastes like Champaign untill you've had Champaign.
This might have something to do with the way that the government allows trucks to be classified.
A truck is a utility/cargo vehicle, not a passenger vehicle.
Trucks are required by law to have a 5 mile/h bumper, cars 10~15mile/hour.
Fuel effiency/emmisions standards are not as stringent on cargo/utility vehicles.
Mini-vans are also classified as utility/cargo vehicles.
The only reason that there is an appearance of improved saftey is the higher kinetic energy + higher sitting position that these monsters have over a standard family-sedan.
10) New Star Soccer 3
. html
/Windows NT/2000/XP
r lds/1.htm
System Requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP
http://www.newstargames.com/
9) DROD: Journey to Rooted Hold
System Requirements: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP, Linux, Mac OS X
http://www.caravelgames.com/Articles/Games_2/JtRH
8) Professor Fizzwizzle
System Requirements: Windows or Linux, Mac OS X
http://grubbygames.com/
7) Darwinia
Windows 98/XP/2000, Linux, Mac
http://www.darwinia.co.uk/
6) Democracy
Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP
http://www.democracygame.com/
5) Mexican Motor Mafia
Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
http://www.scienceoftomorrow.com/mmm_main.htm
4) Tribal Trouble
MacOS X / Linux
http://tribaltrouble.com/
3) Zombie Smashers X2
DirectX 8+
http://www.totallyscrewed.net/newsite/home.htm
2) Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space
Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
http://www.shrapnelgames.com/digital_eel/weird_wo
1) Oasis
Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
http://www.oasisgame.com/
Make an add-on for Amarok.
IMHO it is second to none when it come to managing your music collection. Imagine adding an optional Buy-Here tab with x+1 companies to buy your music from.
I have never bought music online, I never will. I would disable any tab that I saw like that in Amarok.
But my point is; Itunes is/was a good jukebox style player. iTunes has it's issues, alas it's not available natively for Linux.
Amarok excells as a music center, AND runs natively in Linux.
Everybody remembers the scene in Office Space where the whole room is covered in Post-It notes.
I did this.
I got in SOO much shit. My manager (the person who's office I did), kept bringing it up after 3 quarterly reviews and mentioned again for that last 2 Yearly reviews.
Then the fucker had the nerve to say that "We want to support an atmosphere of fun and play."
I agree 100%.
This has been the only reason that I stay with Gnome. Yes, I can write a script to mount my usb devices, but this is a case where it "Just Works!" (tm) and I am thankfull for that.
I mostly use KDElibs, and evolution is my only 'Gnome app'. Honestly I wish I could get the auto-mounting perfection of Gnome in Xfce.
Another killer-feature of Gnome is the ability to scroll the contents of a background window without stealing focus. Great for coding, copy & paste, etc.
I hope you don't mind but I was hoping I could pick your brain a little.
I have been trying to run a 3-screen - 2-video card setup for some time now. I have had luck using 2 PCI cards but no luck running APG + PCI.
Regardless of which BIOS display option I choose (AGP first display vs PCI first display), whenever I boot with AGP & PCI video cards, I only get black output on my screens.
I am running Nvidia cards only.
If you could help, or if anybody else in this forum could provide me with a little insight as to what I am doing wrong, I would be very gratefull.
Reply here or email me.
o2kewl[at]gmail[dot]com
The platen glass is only designed to withstand 3 lbs of pressure.
I just had a brain-fart. Why can't the auto-industry follow/mirror what happened to trains?
Early trains started out as wood/coal burning toxic (and inefficient) monsters.
They now mostly run diesel/electric.
result:
a) more powerfull
b) better fuel economy
c) less mechanical parts = fewer breakdowns = more reliable
Why not build a car that has 4 electric motors (one at each wheel), powered by a small diesel generator?
Hell you could even make a bank of batteries optional for extra fuel economy.
Most of us are old-farts when it comes to computing, so I won't bore you with a "I remember when..."
Alas I can't really tell the story without saying it.
Back in the dos days, it actually meant something when you told a person the you were 'into computers'.
Peers were few and far between, but we were the cornerstone of BBS networks, and damn were we ever geeky. (From hacking io.sys & msdos.sys, to building your own Lego-World to play RPGs in to scale.)
It was a special time. Nowadays everybody is 'into-computers' because they can send an email or click a mouse.
I first heard about Linux several years ago and always wanted to give it a try just because it sounded 'geeky-enough' and well different. I finally got my chance to give 'er a go with RedHat v5.2! it was up, down working and crashing but atleast I was able to run it. The complete lack of games (I was much more a gamer then) quickly let Linux lose its appeal.
Back to Windows I crawled. Thanks to the internet I have since tried MANY different distros, and I am 100% MS-free for the last 2 years. I do miss the games, but I try to occupy myself with building something new.
Ubuntu has kept me sane, the current games are very nice with even more on the way.
Now, if anybody asks I tell them that I am 'into Linux' and I get that strange wierdo look that I remember from school.
Mod parent up....
There is obviously an idiot-angry teenager with mod-points to burn just wanting to be a pain in the ass.
Will apt-get dist-upgrade update me to breezy or do I need to adjust my repos?
OR is a fresh install needed because of the gcc4.0 update?
what command can I type to see exactly what 'version' I am using right now?
Troll?
How why was this modded as troll?
Is somebody having a case of the Mondays?
*Hint THAT WAS FUNNY!
I have heard many good things about Enders Game. It is actually on my short-stack of books to read. Then /. killed any respect that i might have ever had for this guy, and well now his book looks like it might goto the bottom of the pile.
...poof....
"...With praise for Full House, Friends...."
All respect..
gone
We all yell at ATI & Nvidia to "open-up" their drivers. As in release it under the GPL.
ATI & Nvidia don't want to because they say that the competition will learn all the cool tricks.
I know nothing about programming. Can't the competition just download a driver, decompile it and see all the tricks inside? It's not like they can hide the 1's and 0's.
How would releaseing the drivers as GPL make the drivers better?
The FUD from ZDNet is thick. Could this video card issue "prove" that the first company to open up the code will win?
---Clueless in Canada
I actually own a 1984 Honda NightHawk 650. I need "trunk-space" and the image of riding a motorcycle to a customers office is not what my company wants protrayed. (We get a paid a car-allowance, to ensure we maintain a certain level of business ettiquite.)
My first car was a 1993 Honda Civic CX (Hatchback). Driving it modestly netted me ~60mpg.
I paid $12,000 (Canadian).
Today to find a car that get that kind of mileage will cost me $25k-$30k.
WTF is going on? Are economy cars the "next-big-price-gouge"?
Why are not all Standard cars getting 40+mpg?
We have more platics in our cars then we did 12 years ago. We have smarter computers that manage fuel consumption better.
If my company didn't require a car for my job, I would cycle to work everyday.
To recline is devine.
I love my recumbent!
I am going to see this movie tonight for one reason:
To vote with my $$ so that Hollywood suits can see that non-Trek SciFi can be suce$$full. My real motivation for this is Babylon5: The Memory of Shadows.
I am hoping that if Serenity can earn real money then perhaps TMoS will rise again.
I have tried watching Firefly, I don't like the whole cowboys in space angle. The entire technology needed to travel interstellar distances, should be 'good-enough' to produce laser-pistols, not 6-shooters!
Hauling cattle from one planet to another? Nah, I just can't suspend my disbelief.
My personal favorite quote comes from Farscape.
John Crichton: "Bill Gates can't guarantee Windows. How are you going to guarantee my safety?"