Some employers want you out as soon as you indicate you're leaving, so you might think you're leaving in two weeks, but you're actually leaving right now, as soon as they take your badge and escort you out.
We have a budding activist for a son (he's 12). We all stand at our desks at our house, but our son, of course, has to sit all day long at school. We're encouraging him to start campaigning for standing desks at his public school, for all children. Yeah, yeah, I know; it'd be a change, and change is difficult, but it seems that the benefits to our society would far outweigh the fixed costs and the socio-educational-cultural adjustments that would have to be made. My own lay estimate is that we'd eliminate most of the childhood type-2 diabetes and improve the classroom educational environment.
First post from a person who has actually lived in Taiwan, though I can't remember wearing any hats that read my mind. Wait, come to think of it, there _was_ one time....
Thank you. For years, I've been making up these phrases for my passwords, too. "I often wonder how hard it would be to crack them" becomes
"Iowhhiwb2ct." My passwords seem to my naive mind to be secure and easily remembered. Much as I consider a couple of my passwords to be mantras for how to live my life, I try not ever to say them out loud.:-)
Yup, I speak fluent Mandarin. Without more context, it's hard to say, but if your colleagues say it a lot, it's probably "nei-ge" (nei=that; ge=[measure word]), as in "Nei-ge CPU won't fit in nei-ge (or na-ge) motherboard." "Nei" is actually itself a kind of contraction of "na" (that) and "yi" (one).
"Who... decided that sentences on the Internet shall no longer be formatted with two spaces after a period?!"
The Modern Languages Association (MLA) changed its recommendation recently (in the 6th edition, I think, of the Guide to Writers of Research Papers). Before that, it had recommended two spaces, a style item I've used for decades.
I used to hate that browsers all seemed to render sentences with only one space after a period ("full stop" in many parts of the world), but now it seems that they were ahead of the curve, at least in terms of US style. The New York Public Library Writer's Guide to Style and Usage also says to use one space. I don't know what Chicago, or the APA, or other style manuals say.
You've got it right. Live small, or at least recognize how much "living large" costs, and be ready to pay for it (psst: you aren't really paying yet).
Us? We don't make much. We're happy with the sustainability of how we live.
Family-type: Nuclear, wife, child, husband (no, we're not a power plant)
Car: none
Clothes-dryer: none
Dishwasher: none
Computers: 4 (on 24/7)
Central heat/a.c.: none (rooms in use are climate-controlled)
Hot water: demand, propane-fired
Excess packaging: unwrapped/declined at market-place
TV: none
Mon, this is luxury. We walk to the deli (10 mins), the supermarket (2 mins), the truck-farm market (2 mins). We bus to work (20 mins) and walk the kid to school (15 mins).
Spouse and I (we're both 'mericans) work together, staggered shifts, 30 hours/week, low stress, 38 weeks a year (10 weeks off in summers, 4 in winters); 100% health-care (great care! $US3 deductible), for appx $10/month each. Low pay, but pffft, who gives a RA about making more money to spend more?
Oh, yeah; eat-your-heart-out weather, too: it was 26C today (79F) today.
You can live like this, too, MOL, if you are an educated American willing to chuck the rat-race to live in other parts of the world. There's work for you (this is NOT an ad) out there in the world, if you're smart and flexible. If you want a 3br split in the 'burbs and an SUV, though, you're already dead.
Windows XP costs next to nothing here in Taiwan, if you're not picky about having a "license." As in the U.S., most people have only ever seen or used computers running M$ OSs and apps. Mac commands a measly single-digit market-sliver and Linux is for the hardy. Over the last six-to-eight years, just about everything O'Reilly ever published has been translated into Chinese, so most of the language-barrier problems have been overcome, but user habits and corporate/academic investments in training and software are slow to change. The desks of graduate students at my university are littered with books on ASP, not C.
As long as M$ tolerates rampant piracy and/or aggressively licenses its software (deep, deep educational discounts for example), Linux will have a hard time breaking into widespread desktop use here, unless it (ugh) looks, feels, and acts (double-ugh) just like Windows, and is just as cheap (!).
Me? Oh, I'm just waitin' for the day, but I ain't holding my breath. Users here--like ordinary users just about anywhere--want to plug it in and use it. The only real difference, I think, is that users here want to plug it in and have it work in Chinese.
Ah, but embedded though; that's another story. Taiwan out-gadgets the U.S. The market is small here, but we have this big neighbor just across the Strait....
Windows XP costs next to nothing here in Taiwan, if you're not picky about having a "license." As in the U.S., most people have only ever seen or used computers running M$ OSs and apps. Mac commands a measly single-digit market-sliver and Linux is for the hardy. Over the last six-to-eight years, just about everything O'Reilly ever published has been translated into Chinese, so most of the language-barrier problems have been overcome, but user habits and corporate/academic investments in training and software are slow to change. The desks of graduate students at my university are littered with books on ASP, not C.
As long as M$ tolerates rampant piracy and/or aggressively licenses its software (deep, deep educational discounts for example), Linux will have a hard time breaking into widespread desktop use here, unless it (ugh) looks, feels, and acts (double-ugh) just like Windows, and is just as cheap (!) and reliable.
Me? Oh, I'm just waitin' for the day, but I ain't holding my breath. Users here--like ordinary users just about anywhere--want to plug it in and use it. The only real difference, I think, is that users here want to plug it in and have it work in Chinese.
Ah, but _embedded_ though; that's another story. Taiwan out-gadgets the U.S. The market is small here, but we have this big neighbor just across the Strait....
Until I saw this story, I didn't even know that there _were_ Tour de France Riders from Space. In any case, I think it's a good thing they're being mapped.
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I hope he signs up to go. Then again, Mars prolly doesn't want him either.
Some employers want you out as soon as you indicate you're leaving, so you might think you're leaving in two weeks, but you're actually leaving right now, as soon as they take your badge and escort you out.
We have a budding activist for a son (he's 12). We all stand at our desks at our house, but our son, of course, has to sit all day long at school. We're encouraging him to start campaigning for standing desks at his public school, for all children. Yeah, yeah, I know; it'd be a change, and change is difficult, but it seems that the benefits to our society would far outweigh the fixed costs and the socio-educational-cultural adjustments that would have to be made. My own lay estimate is that we'd eliminate most of the childhood type-2 diabetes and improve the classroom educational environment.
First post from a person who has actually lived in Taiwan, though I can't remember wearing any hats that read my mind. Wait, come to think of it, there _was_ one time....
Thank you. For years, I've been making up these phrases for my passwords, too. "I often wonder how hard it would be to crack them" becomes "Iowhhiwb2ct." My passwords seem to my naive mind to be secure and easily remembered. Much as I consider a couple of my passwords to be mantras for how to live my life, I try not ever to say them out loud. :-)
Yup, I speak fluent Mandarin. Without more context, it's hard to say, but if your colleagues say it a lot, it's probably "nei-ge" (nei=that; ge=[measure word]), as in "Nei-ge CPU won't fit in nei-ge (or na-ge) motherboard." "Nei" is actually itself a kind of contraction of "na" (that) and "yi" (one).
"Who ... decided that sentences on the Internet shall no longer be formatted with two spaces after a period?!"
The Modern Languages Association (MLA) changed its recommendation recently (in the 6th edition, I think, of the Guide to Writers of Research Papers). Before that, it had recommended two spaces, a style item I've used for decades.
I used to hate that browsers all seemed to render sentences with only one space after a period ("full stop" in many parts of the world), but now it seems that they were ahead of the curve, at least in terms of US style. The New York Public Library Writer's Guide to Style and Usage also says to use one space. I don't know what Chicago, or the APA, or other style manuals say.
"...a loudmouth frat boy type living off his father's name." Hey, tell him he could be President of the U.S.
Perhaps it's time for a TDTESS remake. Camaro Impala Nicto.
I for one welcome our TV overlords.
You gotta try BSOD. It's the greatest Win app ever. No need to download or buy it, either; it comes bundled free with every version of Windows.
"...that horror known as Pico"?
Whut's wrong with Pico? I love it.
It was all laid out in Bradbury's "The Veldt," 56 years ago. Forget those weird people, though (the Hadleys and that McClean guy).
You've got it right. Live small, or at least recognize how much "living large" costs, and be ready to pay for it (psst: you aren't really paying yet).
Us? We don't make much. We're happy with the sustainability of how we live.
Family-type: Nuclear, wife, child, husband (no, we're not a power plant)
Car: none
Clothes-dryer: none
Dishwasher: none
Computers: 4 (on 24/7)
Central heat/a.c.: none (rooms in use are climate-controlled)
Hot water: demand, propane-fired
Excess packaging: unwrapped/declined at market-place
TV: none
Mon, this is luxury. We walk to the deli (10 mins), the supermarket (2 mins), the truck-farm market (2 mins). We bus to work (20 mins) and walk the kid to school (15 mins).
Spouse and I (we're both 'mericans) work together, staggered shifts, 30 hours/week, low stress, 38 weeks a year (10 weeks off in summers, 4 in winters); 100% health-care (great care! $US3 deductible), for appx $10/month each. Low pay, but pffft, who gives a RA about making more money to spend more?
Oh, yeah; eat-your-heart-out weather, too: it was 26C today (79F) today.
You can live like this, too, MOL, if you are an educated American willing to chuck the rat-race to live in other parts of the world. There's work for you (this is NOT an ad) out there in the world, if you're smart and flexible. If you want a 3br split in the 'burbs and an SUV, though, you're already dead.
Windows XP costs next to nothing here in Taiwan, if you're not picky about having a "license." As in the U.S., most people have only ever seen or used computers running M$ OSs and apps. Mac commands a measly single-digit market-sliver and Linux is for the hardy. Over the last six-to-eight years, just about everything O'Reilly ever published has been translated into Chinese, so most of the language-barrier problems have been overcome, but user habits and corporate/academic investments in training and software are slow to change. The desks of graduate students at my university are littered with books on ASP, not C.
As long as M$ tolerates rampant piracy and/or aggressively licenses its software (deep, deep educational discounts for example), Linux will have a hard time breaking into widespread desktop use here, unless it (ugh) looks, feels, and acts (double-ugh) just like Windows, and is just as cheap (!).
Me? Oh, I'm just waitin' for the day, but I ain't holding my breath. Users here--like ordinary users just about anywhere--want to plug it in and use it. The only real difference, I think, is that users here want to plug it in and have it work in Chinese.
Ah, but embedded though; that's another story. Taiwan out-gadgets the U.S. The market is small here, but we have this big neighbor just across the Strait....
Windows XP costs next to nothing here in Taiwan, if you're not picky about having a "license." As in the U.S., most people have only ever seen or used computers running M$ OSs and apps. Mac commands a measly single-digit market-sliver and Linux is for the hardy. Over the last six-to-eight years, just about everything O'Reilly ever published has been translated into Chinese, so most of the language-barrier problems have been overcome, but user habits and corporate/academic investments in training and software are slow to change. The desks of graduate students at my university are littered with books on ASP, not C.
As long as M$ tolerates rampant piracy and/or aggressively licenses its software (deep, deep educational discounts for example), Linux will have a hard time breaking into widespread desktop use here, unless it (ugh) looks, feels, and acts (double-ugh) just like Windows, and is just as cheap (!) and reliable.
Me? Oh, I'm just waitin' for the day, but I ain't holding my breath. Users here--like ordinary users just about anywhere--want to plug it in and use it. The only real difference, I think, is that users here want to plug it in and have it work in Chinese.
Ah, but _embedded_ though; that's another story. Taiwan out-gadgets the U.S. The market is small here, but we have this big neighbor just across the Strait....
Until I saw this story, I didn't even know that there _were_ Tour de France Riders from Space. In any case, I think it's a good thing they're being mapped.