Chairs are by far the most important consideration for me. At my last job, we had Herman-Miller Aeron chairs, and I would most likely take one like job over another if one had an Aeron chair. The chairs breathe, are comfortable and highly adjustable. You could sit and code 16 hours a day on one, if you had to. It's the only chair I've used that let my butt outlast my eyeballs.
Another thing that I've found to help is a good LCD display. Although most people don't realize it, all CRT screens flicker, even at high refresh rates, and that fatigues your eyeballs. (I'm currently at work (on break) sitting at a 17" monitor running at 60Hz refresh because I need the screenspace of higher resolution. My eyes hurt after only a few hours, but I'm required to sit here 8 hours.
Oh, and free beer (beer Fridays works well) is sometimes a good idea.:)
So you're talking "Mostly Harmless", the last book in the 5-book trilogy?
But so many people hated the book! Adams claimed he only wrote it to kill off everyone so he wouldn't have to write the book again.
I think it was still a good book.
Please tell me you're not referring to "Salmon of Doubt"! I think Douglas Adams would cry to know that that abomination of a half-written, un-rewritten book filled out with essays and ramblings could have been released.
I believe Adams would have taken at least a few hundred more baths and sandwiches before he'd have even considered... well, rewriting it a few more times, if the stories I've read about his writing style are true.
I fail to see how a piece of 1/4" plywood would hold up a 77Lb monitor. Perhaps a sheet of 3/4" or 1" plywood would be a better idea.
To maintain harmony, I will assume that was a typo, and insert this as a correction and not an attack.
They don't kick you off slashdot for being nice anymore, do they?
The problem with this, and I know because I work e-commerce, is that when we send Order Confirmation e-mails to your address, we get these bouncebacks quite often. It's a good idea (from our perspective) to offer other software with these confirmations, and these offers are tagged as 'spam'. But we don't resend to other e-mail addresses, so you're not going to get important order details. The only way to get these from us in this case is to call us, and we can re-send it then.
It doesn't make sense for us to dig through 1,500 bounceback e-mails to find the 'send to here instead' in the pile of 'I've received your e-mail', 'I'm on vacation 'til 2010', 'thanks for your e-mail, please look at my website at blah', etc.
I'm sure that most of the time, if your friends get your little bounceback, they just say 'screw him, he doesn't need my e-mail then.'
Sure, there are a lot of well-known SciFi authors that you can list that help you personally. But I think most here will agree that 'most inspriational writing' credits go to the authors of Linux and BSD man pages. Some of the stuff they say in there is really out there.
Although I certainly won't have first post (having broken the unwritten "don't read the article first" rule), I would like to state that this seems like a good idea to me. I hope they put communications systems in it that will work for another 30 years, as a gift to the future $people_like_me that weren't alive while Pioneer 10 completed its stated mission, yet enjoyed reading about the communications with the spacecraft.
I don't understand the line "Though NASA fought the concept, Congress wrote the money into the space agency's 2003 budget" however. Can someone explain this?
Looking for Logan High School's website, and finding the teacher, you can find a description of the robotics class.
Clickity-click here
Raise your hand if you wish you had this class in high school.
You can also access the teacher's main page HERE
I agree completely.
Look, loser, when you're 19 you'll finally hook up with Julie. It'll be great for a while, but then she will go insane. You will hurt, you will cry, you will learn to hate. DO NOT MISS THIS EXPERIENCE, that's where you learn the most important things in your life.
Things may get better.
I think NCR also patented that. Maintaining, using and reselling pornography on the internet? If they haven't, I probably should. I wonder how a "Prior Fucking Art" lawsuit would stand up against my "Fucking Art".
If you've never heard of the Bandai Pippin, click here to waste some time. I think anyone that's heard of this console would agree that it should be on that list.
I'm glad you brought those up. The Apple/Bandai Pippin was a great console, but apparently no one coded for it.
I love this article, because I find failed consoles so intriguing. Not the actual hardware, not the games. Just the names.
My servers are named Bandai, Pippin, Jaguar, NeoGeo and Saturn.
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Chairs are by far the most important consideration for me. At my last job, we had Herman-Miller Aeron chairs, and I would most likely take one like job over another if one had an Aeron chair. The chairs breathe, are comfortable and highly adjustable. You could sit and code 16 hours a day on one, if you had to. It's the only chair I've used that let my butt outlast my eyeballs. :)
Another thing that I've found to help is a good LCD display. Although most people don't realize it, all CRT screens flicker, even at high refresh rates, and that fatigues your eyeballs. (I'm currently at work (on break) sitting at a 17" monitor running at 60Hz refresh because I need the screenspace of higher resolution. My eyes hurt after only a few hours, but I'm required to sit here 8 hours.
Oh, and free beer (beer Fridays works well) is sometimes a good idea.
So you're talking "Mostly Harmless", the last book in the 5-book trilogy?
But so many people hated the book! Adams claimed he only wrote it to kill off everyone so he wouldn't have to write the book again.
I think it was still a good book.
Please tell me you're not referring to "Salmon of Doubt"! I think Douglas Adams would cry to know that that abomination of a half-written, un-rewritten book filled out with essays and ramblings could have been released.
I believe Adams would have taken at least a few hundred more baths and sandwiches before he'd have even considered... well, rewriting it a few more times, if the stories I've read about his writing style are true.
I fail to see how a piece of 1/4" plywood would hold up a 77Lb monitor. Perhaps a sheet of 3/4" or 1" plywood would be a better idea.
To maintain harmony, I will assume that was a typo, and insert this as a correction and not an attack.
They don't kick you off slashdot for being nice anymore, do they?
The problem with this, and I know because I work e-commerce, is that when we send Order Confirmation e-mails to your address, we get these bouncebacks quite often. It's a good idea (from our perspective) to offer other software with these confirmations, and these offers are tagged as 'spam'. But we don't resend to other e-mail addresses, so you're not going to get important order details. The only way to get these from us in this case is to call us, and we can re-send it then.
It doesn't make sense for us to dig through 1,500 bounceback e-mails to find the 'send to here instead' in the pile of 'I've received your e-mail', 'I'm on vacation 'til 2010', 'thanks for your e-mail, please look at my website at blah', etc.
I'm sure that most of the time, if your friends get your little bounceback, they just say 'screw him, he doesn't need my e-mail then.'
Sure, there are a lot of well-known SciFi authors that you can list that help you personally. But I think most here will agree that 'most inspriational writing' credits go to the authors of Linux and BSD man pages. Some of the stuff they say in there is really out there.
All SPAM is e-mail? Ok, I suppose I can believe that, but how do they make it pink?
Although I certainly won't have first post (having broken the unwritten "don't read the article first" rule), I would like to state that this seems like a good idea to me. I hope they put communications systems in it that will work for another 30 years, as a gift to the future $people_like_me that weren't alive while Pioneer 10 completed its stated mission, yet enjoyed reading about the communications with the spacecraft.
I don't understand the line "Though NASA fought the concept, Congress wrote the money into the space agency's 2003 budget" however. Can someone explain this?
I think an editor would know "wouldn't have" instead of "wouldn't of". But maybe I'm simply old-fashioned in that way.
Looking for Logan High School's website, and finding the teacher, you can find a description of the robotics class. Clickity-click here Raise your hand if you wish you had this class in high school. You can also access the teacher's main page HERE
I agree completely.
Look, loser, when you're 19 you'll finally hook up with Julie. It'll be great for a while, but then she will go insane. You will hurt, you will cry, you will learn to hate. DO NOT MISS THIS EXPERIENCE, that's where you learn the most important things in your life.
Things may get better.
I think NCR also patented that. Maintaining, using and reselling pornography on the internet? If they haven't, I probably should. I wonder how a "Prior Fucking Art" lawsuit would stand up against my "Fucking Art".
If you've never heard of the Bandai Pippin, click here to waste some time. I think anyone that's heard of this console would agree that it should be on that list.
I'm glad you brought those up. The Apple/Bandai Pippin was a great console, but apparently no one coded for it. I love this article, because I find failed consoles so intriguing. Not the actual hardware, not the games. Just the names. My servers are named Bandai, Pippin, Jaguar, NeoGeo and Saturn.