It depends on your situation. You are always a fool for giving up a good job. Of course If you aren't happy then it is wiser to leave.
Of course In this market I would of at least had several interviews lined up before I left. I would make it clear that I am not happy and am looking else where. Leaving with out planning is Generally not a good Idea. I would also try not to leave on a bad note(pick up things to make the tranistion easier)
If anyone can't understand that Ignore them.
Yes I have done this.
It's not easy, it can be ugly. But sometimes Logic doesn't apply
Most Planes have local power sockets for passengers.
Get a power adaptor for your laptop for the plane. If your careful you can strip out a small section of the power cord for each conductor. Wrap in tape. plug in the adaptor, and bring the two striped sections together near your molotov wick. Spark'em baby.
You are right , No software patents doesn' want software patents and you don't understand either.
It's confusing so I will screw some of this up.
A law was propsed. It got shot down in parliment, The EC picked it up, and tried to ram it through anyway, it got shot down and sent back to the begining of the process to be rewritten. the EC ignored that and is trying to shove it through again.
Somebody wants this law so badly they will bend and break any EU rule they can to get this software patent legistaltion through.
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The only reason IBM is turning around is because they are giving up control of the software. MSFT never had a good product to begin with. Why would anyone continue it. Netscape 4 might of sucked, but Netscape 3 was good. A Base in other words was needed.
I haven't seen a floater ad yet. Even sites that you are supposed to get them. The only thing I can think of is that I use adblock to block whole domains/directories.
Then you would love the POS software we use. It's all Dos based. Remember DosShell, no mouse is nessacary.
You have specific fields to fill out in order.
Customer name Item, quanity, price is done with item,based on a matrix that relates to Customer.
press F2 to bill, select method of payment and your done. Hands never leave the keyboard and I have only found two not really nessacary key strokes overall.
You are correct. A simple cable from line out to line in will work, as long as you have software that can sort out the two different streams, and a computer that can decode and encode at the same time.(or two computers)
This trick though uses Winamp's output plugins Instead of audio you set it to convert to wav. No encoding so it's faster. Then you can Encode to mp3's later.
Good notes. Backups are important for everything you spend money on.
If you have 1800 AAC's and say 300 CD's you haven't listened to those CD's aren't worth anything more than AAc's (minus resale value as the AC one post up points out)
DRM is useless. It's why I haven't actually bought any songs from iTunes(or anyone else) The DC's I like I keep, the rest go back into circulation. I havne't bought a new CD though since 2001. Haven't found anything interesting enough to buy.
RIAA has to fix it's shitty artists first, then worry about protecting those artists.
Unfortunately Digital restrictions managment is here to stay. Apple has the best DRM ifyou have to have DRM. Everybody is equal, unlike some WMA's where each artist can demand seperate rights.
Now Apple will have to open up Fairplay. I figure by the time the 500 millionth song is downloaded Apple will have Fairplay licensed to others. In players or stores I know not which.
I promise not to look for prior art or question the validity of any mouse click you want patented.
I wont be bothered to see if anyone else is even trying to do something similar, and will push to patent using keyboards to input data, using a pen on the screen to push objects, and even patent running software on something called a processor.
>>Private business cannot, and without huge incentives, will not develop the kind of destinations that you and I are describing.
Private businesses are the one who founded the USA. it was refugees using private merchant vessels that created Plymouth. Jamesville, though had the honour of the kings blessing.
The expansion west. Sure the goverment sold land cheap as an incentive. but that's about all the goverment did. WE have the tech to build a resort in space. Sure the first ones might only hold a cuople of dozen guests and a handful of employees. But you have to start somewhere.
I personally think that the hyper-drive ship will get there and save the day next year or so because this year they were stupid and stopped to help some one. won't make that mistake again.
I would say no. The Prometheous still doesn't have good weapon systems( the recent episode where they ran out of weapons attacking One alakesh bomber?) And the sheilds have gotten weaker. During the end of last season those sheilds held againist 30 warships, yet one alakesh and a handful of fighters did enough damage to prevent long trips?
NO The story will go something alone the lines. SG-1 finds an Ancient world with a couple of puddle jumpers, on that world they will find out about wraiths, and Atlantis, and a couple of ZPM modules. A replacement mission for Atlantis is created, and they bring with them a ZPM or two(so shields are back) as well as new cast members, since the Atlantis crew is dying off quickly, without replishment.
I sad I run windows not XP. I don't consider XP useful enough to actually run software on. This is because in the 5 times I have used it, It had to be completely reinstalled each time.
If you believe the myth that Mac's are more expensive than the cheap shit PC then you are an idiot. Take a high end PC, and match it feature for feature/ card for card to a Mac. You will have to custom build it to achieve this. Price either ties or favors Mac's this way. You can't compare an Intel S3 shared-memory video card built into the motherboard to a nvidia or Radeon 3D card.
Match spec for spec including, weight/ battery-life(no extra batteries) size/ and other specs of a Powerbook, to anything in PC world. Only Sony Vaio's come close. And they are nearly the same price.
There is a reason why I bought a Powerbook instead of a Dell, or Sony laptop. Best price to performace features, witht he added bonus I don't have to deal with Windows if I don't want to.
I was going to mod you as a troll, but then I had a better Idea.
A) OS X took me all of 1 hour to fully understand, including the command line.
b) I can download mandrake or Suse for the costs of bandwidth and a couple of blank cd's.
c) Linux has never crashed and took out the system on me.(I have had programs crash, but recovery is easier than windows )
d) OS X has crashed only once during a login. (my font files got trashed)
e) I reboot windows machines every couple of days, losing work. Very frequently we are filling out orders for customers with cash in their hands when they crash and we have to start over.
If I could get rid of windows completely, it would be great. All I am waiting for is some games. That or a PowerPC chip that can emulate a P4.
Can I get Red Hat ES today and Oracle and be garanteed that in 5 years time, my Oracle that I bought will still run, unchanged (same binary), still supported etc.?
You do have a point then again are you still running the same apps from 5 years ago, and has just the OS been updated, or has those apps been updated as well?
My work is running netware 3.1? using win 95 clients to connect. Nothing was ever upgraded. If you upgrade every 5 years or so, the OS will be included. You don't update your database, and not the OS underneath it. The only reason backwards compatibility is need for MS is not because of businesses but because of home users.
Sure you would need binaray compatibility between win 95 and win 98, but by the time win me-too came around you would drop win 95 support. 5 years right there. Now Try running firefox, or another app made to day the claims win 98 support on win 95. It needs libraries.
Now win 95 is 10 years old but MSFT hasn't released 'consumer' os since XP(i don't count mce, since that is only XP with new software)
I can understand most of that. when I bought my powerbook I took my second computer which and a bad motherboard, and about 4 video cards, three network cards, 2 sound cards,a monitor, etc to a computer shop who I traded all the good parts for a discount on an Apple USB keyboard, and the recycling fees for the bad hardware.
I gave out all my extra hardware, keeping only an 80gb drive, which went into an external firewire enclosure. Now my Dell tower only gets booted once every couple of days for games. Half the time the monitor for the dell is plugged into the Powerbook.
Why don't you want to own two computers? I have for years, mainly windows or linux machines(I just bought my first Mac).
The number one reason why I like two computers, is when one fails, I have a way to get online to lookup information. I guess I have just had Windows destroy to many network drivers on me.
They don't run all the time, and Yes I still do run Windows. I just got tired of fixing it every week.
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It depends on your situation. You are always a fool for giving up a good job. Of course If you aren't happy then it is wiser to leave.
Of course In this market I would of at least had several interviews lined up before I left. I would make it clear that I am not happy and am looking else where. Leaving with out planning is Generally not a good Idea. I would also try not to leave on a bad note(pick up things to make the tranistion easier)
If anyone can't understand that Ignore them.
Yes I have done this.
It's not easy, it can be ugly. But sometimes Logic doesn't apply
Who needs a lighter?
Most Planes have local power sockets for passengers.
Get a power adaptor for your laptop for the plane. If your careful you can strip out a small section of the power cord for each conductor. Wrap in tape. plug in the adaptor, and bring the two striped sections together near your molotov wick. Spark'em baby.
You don' need fire, you need creative thought.
In the words of my Generation MacGyver it.
You are right , No software patents doesn' want software patents and you don't understand either.
It's confusing so I will screw some of this up.
A law was propsed. It got shot down in parliment, The EC picked it up, and tried to ram it through anyway, it got shot down and sent back to the begining of the process to be rewritten. the EC ignored that and is trying to shove it through again.
Somebody wants this law so badly they will bend and break any EU rule they can to get this software patent legistaltion through.
Planet Starbuck? It's better than the
System Microsoft. Where the Sun BSOD's once a year.
Live due depend on it.
The shuttle goes up and explodes because the software controlling the rocket propellent mixture BSOD'd seconds after lift off. Not going to happen.
Also The shuttle's have been getting upgrades, Digital displays, etc. But the testing on that stuff is literally out of this world.
Excuse me for a moment.
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The only reason IBM is turning around is because they are giving up control of the software. MSFT never had a good product to begin with. Why would anyone continue it. Netscape 4 might of sucked, but Netscape 3 was good. A Base in other words was needed.
I haven't seen a floater ad yet. Even sites that you are supposed to get them. The only thing I can think of is that I use adblock to block whole domains/directories.
m pany.domain.com
Since most companies use either
domain.com/ads
Domain.com/RealMedia/ads
ad.co
I go far enough back up the list to block all the ads, but make sure other content is visible.
You press and hold the T key during boot.
No you can't do it with x86 bios.
No you can't do it with the cheap hardware.
Target disk mode as i understand it loads up the kernel and just enough hardware/software to operate the drives, as an external drive enclosure.
The only reason Apple can giveyou cool features like that is because they have a tight control of their systems.
>>ActiveX on the other hand prompts you before it is run.
Not as default you have to set it to do that.
So they aren't all that different except the Core of OS X will still be safe while Windows just became a spam zombie.
Both will destroy whatever personal data they can get ahold of.
>>Oh wait - there are no fossil fuels on mars. $h|t.
Are you sure? how do you know it just hasn't been aging well.
65 million years ago the earth was a lot warmer. There is nothing to say that Mars wasn't warmer as well.
Then you would love the POS software we use. It's all Dos based. Remember DosShell, no mouse is nessacary.
You have specific fields to fill out in order.
Customer name
Item, quanity, price is done with item,based on a matrix that relates to Customer.
press F2 to bill, select method of payment and your done. Hands never leave the keyboard and I have only found two not really nessacary key strokes overall.
Sometimes the best interface is the simplist one.
The big problem is that Intel can't get off of x86.
x86 is a poor(relatively) design. New avenues need to be opened up.
There were once two wars in computers.
Cisc / Risc and Microsoft / everybody else
cisc & MSFT won those early battles. And on one had we should thank them for mass producing compuers to the general Population.
On the other hand sometimes I wish the past decade didn't happen and the better technologies came out on top, instead of the cheap ones.
>>viewing some "incompatible" sites
Why?
Instead why not force developers to properly write complaint HTML.
Slashdot isn't complaint. Hence hte probelms. Hit ctrl + and then ctrl - and things are restored.
You are correct. A simple cable from line out to line in will work, as long as you have software that can sort out the two different streams, and a computer that can decode and encode at the same time.(or two computers)
This trick though uses Winamp's output plugins Instead of audio you set it to convert to wav. No encoding so it's faster. Then you can Encode to mp3's later.
Good notes. Backups are important for everything you spend money on.
If you have 1800 AAC's and say 300 CD's you haven't listened to those CD's aren't worth anything more than AAc's (minus resale value as the AC one post up points out)
DRM is useless. It's why I haven't actually bought any songs from iTunes(or anyone else) The DC's I like I keep, the rest go back into circulation. I havne't bought a new CD though since 2001. Haven't found anything interesting enough to buy.
RIAA has to fix it's shitty artists first, then worry about protecting those artists.
I agree.
Unfortunately Digital restrictions managment is here to stay. Apple has the best DRM ifyou have to have DRM. Everybody is equal, unlike some WMA's where each artist can demand seperate rights.
Now Apple will have to open up Fairplay. I figure by the time the 500 millionth song is downloaded Apple will have Fairplay licensed to others. In players or stores I know not which.
Let's really do the math.
2 years. $15 bucks a month $360
2 years 15 songs a month that you buy at $.99 ea $356
In year 3 you stop buying music,
Napster you have zero songs
iTunes you have 360 songs, that will play on your PC or Mac or, iPod.
Total long term value of Napster $0
Total long term value of iTunes $360
Note this assumes both sides always carry backwards compatiblity.
I promise not to look for prior art or question the validity of any mouse click you want patented.
I wont be bothered to see if anyone else is even trying to do something similar, and will push to patent using keyboards to input data, using a pen on the screen to push objects, and even patent running software on something called a processor.
>>Private business cannot, and without huge incentives, will not develop the kind of destinations that you and I are describing.
Private businesses are the one who founded the USA. it was refugees using private merchant vessels that created Plymouth. Jamesville, though had the honour of the kings blessing.
The expansion west. Sure the goverment sold land cheap as an incentive. but that's about all the goverment did. WE have the tech to build a resort in space. Sure the first ones might only hold a cuople of dozen guests and a handful of employees. But you have to start somewhere.
NO The story will go something alone the lines. SG-1 finds an Ancient world with a couple of puddle jumpers, on that world they will find out about wraiths, and Atlantis, and a couple of ZPM modules. A replacement mission for Atlantis is created, and they bring with them a ZPM or two(so shields are back) as well as new cast members, since the Atlantis crew is dying off quickly, without replishment.
I sad I run windows not XP. I don't consider XP useful enough to actually run software on. This is because in the 5 times I have used it, It had to be completely reinstalled each time.
If you believe the myth that Mac's are more expensive than the cheap shit PC then you are an idiot. Take a high end PC, and match it feature for feature/ card for card to a Mac. You will have to custom build it to achieve this. Price either ties or favors Mac's this way. You can't compare an Intel S3 shared-memory video card built into the motherboard to a nvidia or Radeon 3D card.
Match spec for spec including, weight/ battery-life(no extra batteries) size/ and other specs of a Powerbook, to anything in PC world. Only Sony Vaio's come close. And they are nearly the same price.
There is a reason why I bought a Powerbook instead of a Dell, or Sony laptop. Best price to performace features, witht he added bonus I don't have to deal with Windows if I don't want to.
I was going to mod you as a troll, but then I had a better Idea.
A) OS X took me all of 1 hour to fully understand, including the command line.
b) I can download mandrake or Suse for the costs of bandwidth and a couple of blank cd's.
c) Linux has never crashed and took out the system on me.(I have had programs crash, but recovery is easier than windows )
d) OS X has crashed only once during a login. (my font files got trashed)
e) I reboot windows machines every couple of days, losing work. Very frequently we are filling out orders for customers with cash in their hands when they crash and we have to start over.
If I could get rid of windows completely, it would be great. All I am waiting for is some games. That or a PowerPC chip that can emulate a P4.
My work is running netware 3.1? using win 95 clients to connect. Nothing was ever upgraded. If you upgrade every 5 years or so, the OS will be included. You don't update your database, and not the OS underneath it. The only reason backwards compatibility is need for MS is not because of businesses but because of home users.
Sure you would need binaray compatibility between win 95 and win 98, but by the time win me-too came around you would drop win 95 support. 5 years right there. Now Try running firefox, or another app made to day the claims win 98 support on win 95. It needs libraries.
Now win 95 is 10 years old but MSFT hasn't released 'consumer' os since XP(i don't count mce, since that is only XP with new software)
I can understand most of that. when I bought my powerbook I took my second computer which and a bad motherboard, and about 4 video cards, three network cards, 2 sound cards,a monitor, etc to a computer shop who I traded all the good parts for a discount on an Apple USB keyboard, and the recycling fees for the bad hardware.
I gave out all my extra hardware, keeping only an 80gb drive, which went into an external firewire enclosure. Now my Dell tower only gets booted once every couple of days for games. Half the time the monitor for the dell is plugged into the Powerbook.
Dumb question.
Why don't you want to own two computers? I have for years, mainly windows or linux machines(I just bought my first Mac).
The number one reason why I like two computers, is when one fails, I have a way to get online to lookup information. I guess I have just had Windows destroy to many network drivers on me.
They don't run all the time, and Yes I still do run Windows. I just got tired of fixing it every week.