I'm currently using my old Logitech cordless trackball and the Avermedia Digital TV Cards remote. I just wich the trackball's range was a little better but I don't need any surface.
I thought team building was only for middle management and unqualified HR chicks! But, yes you are totally correct from a motivational and long term profitability perspective
Too bad most management incentive packages are based on short term performance mertics.
For a colleagues farewell I once had all 6 external auditors blowing balloons to fill his office to the roof. We then over-decorated the entire floor. Sure we was embarrassed (marginally) but the entire staff had a great time and the target was flattered we went to the effort.
Unfortunately I had to work all weekend to meet board schedules!
Repeat after me, harmless office pranks build teams! - They also build relationships
Okay, help me here. Why is this modded flamebait? I thought the only way to be modded flamebait here was to make a disparaging remark about FOSS or it's community.
At worst it should be redundant because it states the obvoius.
Where could you start, passing laws (or using existing ones) which do not support the monopoly or fostering corporate welfare
Declaring that that these products post a threat to national security due to lax security and undue load on government and public networks
Deeming that the supplier has berached US and international laws and is therefore may not validly apply for government contracts
Declaring that no government agency may pay continued licence fees to a company which has acted illegally
Declaring that in tha national interest the government must have access to it's own data by releasing to said government all proprietry file formats and API's necessary for conversion and interoperability
Pooling the saved licence fees and funding academic institutions to develop solutions for existing products for which there is no viable alternative MS Project, Access and perhaps Visio
Of course this could only be initiated in the US where they have the most robust legislation in place to support such arguments, any other nation which tried it would potentially face US trade restrictions.
You won't really know the difference if you do it properly. Most of the back catalogue CD's you buy are AAD (recorded in analogue, mixed in analogue, mastered to digital). Generally if the source has a low bit rate and sampling rate the output will be shitty without a generation loss.
I have a laptop and Extigy in the stereo rack for recording old vinyl (about 1000 out of catalogue) as I play them. Clean 'em first, record off the NAD preamp, not the Kenwood - pass the wav through some noise reduction / aural excitement and the result can be better than most of the first generation of CD's we paid TOO MUCH for (who has the original Who's live at Leeds CD). The duty cycle of the stylus is critical here - remember them, they don't work well in the car.
Probably too much effort for someone who downloads and sees music as a disposable item, but if you are paying for the tracks it's another story
What frightens me is the eagerness to back it up with force.
Agreed, if they can't get thier act together and prosecute here (OZ) the extradition proceedings are gonna be interesting to say the least. Personally I feel he should be prosecuted but suspect the issue is civil here, rather than criminal.
Too bad they can't ship him off to Guantanamo and have the trial proceed under a proper legal system
Linux driver support does/should drive some of us to choose one product over another if specs are basically similar. This can only help accelerate linux as an economic force and encourage vendors to provide driver support. The problem is they will most likely be binaries with associated problems with kernal upgrades.
I haven't tried on my Debian box but plugged my Canon PowerShot camera into my Laptop running Mandrake 9, fired up the included camera app, and presto. A while ago now but no problems there.
You are correct, in a way. Of course it is about capitalism because that is what has driven American foreign policy for the better part of the last 50 years.
Corporate lobbying to gain increased access to foreign markets has been one of the most important drivers in Americas actions. People implicitly feel this, as was evidenced by the (perhaps misguided) reaction on many quarters that the Iraq invasion was driven by oil supplies.
Capitalism only gets out of line when it starts to dilute national sovereignty and the decision process of an elected government.
The whole FTA is going to be really interesting to watch as we come to an election and I suspect there is going to be enough mileage in it for all political parties to get in and have a say, government almost shuts down prior to an election. The farm sector is already pissed-off with the lack of reciprocation by the US and feeling disinfranchised with the Liberal Coalition.
It is interesting to read the draft chapter, there is a helll of a lot about "phonographs" ala the RIAA and the extension of copyright. There is almost nothing about Movies, perhaps due to the vocal actions of many of our local talent and the minor parties about the impact on local production, investment, cultural identity et al. Persomally I hope Brittney never makes it into the public domain, imagine that as lift muzak!
I can't see anything about free software, the right to reverse engineer is still there for interoperability and security etc and the democrats (and I suspect Labor) would rally against any anti-competative Microsoft crap that may be discovered.
Bugger it, I'm moving to New Zealand if little Johnny gets his Deputy badge.
Outsourcing is a great idea. From the sites I have seen it at, they would continue charging for the lost servers...and the replacement until the contract comes up for renewal.
I read this a few hours ago on ABC's site (abc.net.au), and I nearly laughed my nuts off.
This is customs right, the organisation responsible for stopping all those nasty things like guns, drugs, WMD's, cheap CD's and region 1 DVD's getting in and harming the general population. And they lost two servers.
Reminds me of an old project with up to 100 of us on it before go live. They left the project manager and a few others there to wrap up after go-live and the support period. By the time IT came to collect 100 of the newest PC's in the company, they were shells. No CPU, RAM, HDD, Vid etc.
Anyway, aparrently I had better get back to sheep shagging. I suppose I should move to Montana, they say the sheep there don't fight back.
The last few domestic (non-US) flights I have taken have been a hugs hassle getting through security. People taking off shoes and belts, etc to get through the metal detectors - having to get to the airport early etc.
They are even stopping cigarette lighter now so I doubt this is gonna be a really popular technology in AUS.
Before 9/11 I found it impossible to take my automatically inflatable life jacket on board one domestic carrier because of a 33gm CO2 bottle, even though there is one under every damn seat. Every yacht race I flew to or back from, well I just had to try and buy spare (not always possible). This carrier was a major yacht race sponsor.
I had taken the same life jacket through Heathrow, HK, Singapore, Athens...Sometimes still armed.
With the current worldwide paranoia, this is gonna be interesting.
And I have just taken the battery out of my laptop as I never use it on client sites and it's too bloody heavy.
I understand what you mean about love, not in a natural way at all.
A few weeks ago I was building some SAP middleware stuff at a hosting site (full MS) and showed our OS/DB guy firebird 0.6 - he won't touch anything else and this stuff is only supported on IE 5 and up.
Then I showed the hosting company MD the difference in connecting to our external web mail on MS Exchange. I had been whining about its crap access speed for months. Two (2) seconds to load rather than 120++, nobody really believes it unless they see it. No hidden MS traffic going on there.
Then add some cool extensions like; quicknote, slashzilla, JavaScript Console, Live HTTP Headers, google bar, MacroEditor. Daylight really is second, by several years. Skin it to look like KDE, whatever.
Then try typing "about:config" in the address bar. Well, I'm starting to rant:)
About running in memory (quicklaunch), I'm quite happy to wait 2-3 seconds for it to load - it's worth the wait many times over.
Sort of agree, even if it looks like Win2k Plus pack with a retarded theme (sorry that's WinXP) - Sun putting it's acceptance/effort isn't going to hurt at all.
Now I'm trying to decide if the fragmentation in the linux desptop space will hinder the cause, or bolster it by showing that there ARE ALTERNATIVES - which are NOT incompatible.
The fact that IE goes straight to MS Search when a site can't be found (usuallt my dodgy typing) is only a small reason to change browsers.
I started using Netscape 7 a while ago for tabbed browsing and to see how it was going generally, especially compatability with the SAP stuff I do
Then I discovered firebird 0.6 (mozilla) and the earth moved.
Our firm's slow exchange based web mail takes 2 secs not 120, no dodgy MS data exchanges in the background
Plug-ins google bar, slashzilla feed bar, quicknote, download status bar, RSS reader, macro editor and they are just the ones I have installed in the last week
Type "about:config" in the status bar and see the world open up.
My main gripe is that I am still trying to crash it, God I feel nostalgic for IE
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I'm currently using my old Logitech cordless trackball and the Avermedia Digital TV Cards remote. I just wich the trackball's range was a little better but I don't need any surface.
The sig reminds me of something...You aren't a client of mine are you?
I thought team building was only for middle management and unqualified HR chicks! But, yes you are totally correct from a motivational and long term profitability perspective
Too bad most management incentive packages are based on short term performance mertics.
I vote yes.
For a colleagues farewell I once had all 6 external auditors blowing balloons to fill his office to the roof. We then over-decorated the entire floor. Sure we was embarrassed (marginally) but the entire staff had a great time and the target was flattered we went to the effort.
Unfortunately I had to work all weekend to meet board schedules!
Repeat after me, harmless office pranks build teams! - They also build relationships
Okay, help me here. Why is this modded flamebait? I thought the only way to be modded flamebait here was to make a disparaging remark about FOSS or it's community.
At worst it should be redundant because it states the obvoius.
Where could you start, passing laws (or using existing ones) which do not support the monopoly or fostering corporate welfare
Declaring that that these products post a threat to national security due to lax security and undue load on government and public networks
Deeming that the supplier has berached US and international laws and is therefore may not validly apply for government contracts
Declaring that no government agency may pay continued licence fees to a company which has acted illegally
Declaring that in tha national interest the government must have access to it's own data by releasing to said government all proprietry file formats and API's necessary for conversion and interoperability
Pooling the saved licence fees and funding academic institutions to develop solutions for existing products for which there is no viable alternative MS Project, Access and perhaps Visio
Of course this could only be initiated in the US where they have the most robust legislation in place to support such arguments, any other nation which tried it would potentially face US trade restrictions.
You won't really know the difference if you do it properly. Most of the back catalogue CD's you buy are AAD (recorded in analogue, mixed in analogue, mastered to digital). Generally if the source has a low bit rate and sampling rate the output will be shitty without a generation loss.
I have a laptop and Extigy in the stereo rack for recording old vinyl (about 1000 out of catalogue) as I play them. Clean 'em first, record off the NAD preamp, not the Kenwood - pass the wav through some noise reduction / aural excitement and the result can be better than most of the first generation of CD's we paid TOO MUCH for (who has the original Who's live at Leeds CD). The duty cycle of the stylus is critical here - remember them, they don't work well in the car.
Probably too much effort for someone who downloads and sees music as a disposable item, but if you are paying for the tracks it's another story
What frightens me is the eagerness to back it up with force.
Agreed, if they can't get thier act together and prosecute here (OZ) the extradition proceedings are gonna be interesting to say the least. Personally I feel he should be prosecuted but suspect the issue is civil here, rather than criminal.
Too bad they can't ship him off to Guantanamo and have the trial proceed under a proper legal system
Linux driver support does/should drive some of us to choose one product over another if specs are basically similar. This can only help accelerate linux as an economic force and encourage vendors to provide driver support. The problem is they will most likely be binaries with associated problems with kernal upgrades.
I haven't tried on my Debian box but plugged my Canon PowerShot camera into my Laptop running Mandrake 9, fired up the included camera app, and presto. A while ago now but no problems there.
You are correct, in a way. Of course it is about capitalism because that is what has driven American foreign policy for the better part of the last 50 years.
Corporate lobbying to gain increased access to foreign markets has been one of the most important drivers in Americas actions. People implicitly feel this, as was evidenced by the (perhaps misguided) reaction on many quarters that the Iraq invasion was driven by oil supplies.
Capitalism only gets out of line when it starts to dilute national sovereignty and the decision process of an elected government.
The whole FTA is going to be really interesting to watch as we come to an election and I suspect there is going to be enough mileage in it for all political parties to get in and have a say, government almost shuts down prior to an election. The farm sector is already pissed-off with the lack of reciprocation by the US and feeling disinfranchised with the Liberal Coalition.
It is interesting to read the draft chapter, there is a helll of a lot about "phonographs" ala the RIAA and the extension of copyright. There is almost nothing about Movies, perhaps due to the vocal actions of many of our local talent and the minor parties about the impact on local production, investment, cultural identity et al. Persomally I hope Brittney never makes it into the public domain, imagine that as lift muzak!
I can't see anything about free software, the right to reverse engineer is still there for interoperability and security etc and the democrats (and I suspect Labor) would rally against any anti-competative Microsoft crap that may be discovered.
Bugger it, I'm moving to New Zealand if little Johnny gets his Deputy badge.
Outsourcing is a great idea. From the sites I have seen it at, they would continue charging for the lost servers...and the replacement until the contract comes up for renewal.
I read this a few hours ago on ABC's site (abc.net.au), and I nearly laughed my nuts off.
This is customs right, the organisation responsible for stopping all those nasty things like guns, drugs, WMD's, cheap CD's and region 1 DVD's getting in and harming the general population. And they lost two servers.
Reminds me of an old project with up to 100 of us on it before go live. They left the project manager and a few others there to wrap up after go-live and the support period. By the time IT came to collect 100 of the newest PC's in the company, they were shells. No CPU, RAM, HDD, Vid etc.
Anyway, aparrently I had better get back to sheep shagging. I suppose I should move to Montana, they say the sheep there don't fight back.
The last few domestic (non-US) flights I have taken have been a hugs hassle getting through security. People taking off shoes and belts, etc to get through the metal detectors - having to get to the airport early etc.
They are even stopping cigarette lighter now so I doubt this is gonna be a really popular technology in AUS.
Before 9/11 I found it impossible to take my automatically inflatable life jacket on board one domestic carrier because of a 33gm CO2 bottle, even though there is one under every damn seat. Every yacht race I flew to or back from, well I just had to try and buy spare (not always possible). This carrier was a major yacht race sponsor.
I had taken the same life jacket through Heathrow, HK, Singapore, Athens...Sometimes still armed.
With the current worldwide paranoia, this is gonna be interesting.
And I have just taken the battery out of my laptop as I never use it on client sites and it's too bloody heavy.
I understand what you mean about love, not in a natural way at all.
:)
A few weeks ago I was building some SAP middleware stuff at a hosting site (full MS) and showed our OS/DB guy firebird 0.6 - he won't touch anything else and this stuff is only supported on IE 5 and up.
Then I showed the hosting company MD the difference in connecting to our external web mail on MS Exchange. I had been whining about its crap access speed for months. Two (2) seconds to load rather than 120++, nobody really believes it unless they see it. No hidden MS traffic going on there.
Then add some cool extensions like; quicknote, slashzilla, JavaScript Console, Live HTTP Headers, google bar, MacroEditor. Daylight really is second, by several years. Skin it to look like KDE, whatever.
Then try typing "about:config" in the address bar. Well, I'm starting to rant
About running in memory (quicklaunch), I'm quite happy to wait 2-3 seconds for it to load - it's worth the wait many times over.
Hope your'e ok. Aparrently it's a good cure for that amphetamine burning.
Now how do I get a bigger penis?
Vigilantism? In the US people are much more prone to use guns than almost everywhere else.
I'm off to buy more NewsCorp shares
Don't blame RedHat. Haven't you read it yet, IBM is behind everything.
Or as a ./ reader the first conclusion is thet MS gave SCO licence money to start this
Sorry about mentioning SCO - off topic, but I couldn't help it ;-)
Sort of agree, even if it looks like Win2k Plus pack with a retarded theme (sorry that's WinXP) - Sun putting it's acceptance/effort isn't going to hurt at all.
Now I'm trying to decide if the fragmentation in the linux desptop space will hinder the cause, or bolster it by showing that there ARE ALTERNATIVES - which are NOT incompatible.
A new paradigm for lots of people.
You seem to have picked a lot of the reasons I tend to use KDE or console, without really being able to express them or recognise them myself :-)
I'm guessing they threw all thier best resources at and wrote a skin. But then I didn't pick it and I use firebird
The fact that IE goes straight to MS Search when a site can't be found (usuallt my dodgy typing) is only a small reason to change browsers.
I started using Netscape 7 a while ago for tabbed browsing and to see how it was going generally, especially compatability with the SAP stuff I do
Then I discovered firebird 0.6 (mozilla) and the earth moved.
Our firm's slow exchange based web mail takes 2 secs not 120, no dodgy MS data exchanges in the background
Plug-ins google bar, slashzilla feed bar, quicknote, download status bar, RSS reader, macro editor and they are just the ones I have installed in the last week
Type "about:config" in the status bar and see the world open up.
My main gripe is that I am still trying to crash it, God I feel nostalgic for IE
I agree, playing with shins on my KDE / MDK 9 laptop started to look real pretty then I lost interest and all my other boxes are vanilla $.
But it can't but help gain acceptance in the Corporate space.
Now if I could easily do that to my CDE/HP-UX box I would feel pretty special.
Even if they train Cindy to understand *certain* words, the results may shock and surprise a high % of ./'ers
So I'm guessing that this is a blonde Cindy. Not the enhanced brunette model to be released sometime Q2 2004.