I can't imagine that everybody at your company is three paychecks behind. There are people with mortgages who would've bolted at the first missed paycheck.
What I'm noticing in my small company, is that I send out lots of documents for which it's not necessary for clients to edit these. Thus these all become PDF.
For data exchange, plain CSV is often used. That format predates MS Excel by at least two centuries:-)
It's true that the world runs MS Office, however that's the corporate world. Small companies rarely have the need to export their internal documents to the outside world. So, OO.o is fine in that case.
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Most AI, even if highly intelligent, will never behave anything like a human, simply because its something vastly different and build for very different tasks.
Just some two years ago, I encountered Mumps while building a connector that pumped medical information from a GP his system into a message server. And yes, the GP his system was entirely written in Mumps.
Aaaaah, fond memories....
That crazy stuff doesn't look like anything you've ever seen before.
It's always kind of creeped me out that Flash even gives applets access to the microphone
Definitely creepy. One time I visited a page with a Flash-based advertisement from (apparently) a French company. When my mouse cursor inadvertently moved over the Flash applet, some kind of contact was made with the company. This French guy was screaming into his microphone "'ello?? 'ELLOO??". And he obviously saw through my cam because he continued: "Bonjour, sire! Whas arr yous eatingue?" just when I was shoving a sandwhich in my pie-hole.
If you are Spanish and use English to speak to Dutch guys in Amsterdam you are fine. But if you are American and expect them to speak in English, not so fine.
Then go work for an American company in The Netherlands. My experience during my time with Oracle is that I met a lot of Australians, New Zealanders and Americans who didn't speak Dutch but mostly understood it.
No problems for them, except the occasional nitpick (who would've found something to nitpick about anyway).
There are very few people left who actually know how to layout and paint a sign by hand like an old pro.
Lots of Brazilians disagree:-) Last time I was in Brazil for my work, the whole city was full of hand-painted signs. It was actually very nice to see, and often done very professionally.
My mother has a computer that was "built for Vista" (which, by the way, MS has admitted was a "marketing overstatement", ie. LIE). It's slow. It crashes ALOT.
Just a suggestion: bring it back to the store. I'm just like you and tried to fix everything myself. Now I have my own business don't have the time for that, I either: 1) tell the seller to come pick it up for repairs 2) if they won't, retract payment from credit card company or 3) scrap it.
I'll admit this is all sounding a bit abrupt but I have come to hate the mucking with Windows.
Qt lost a lot of points in my book for just how much time was destroyed in porting our code to Qt4. Two years later, and we're still asking for bugfixes.
It's definitely not ideal. If you keep it in your laptop, it's going to be much warmer than room temperature (because the laptop is warm) and fully charged.
To summarize the above page, it's best to store a battery a bit less than half-charged, and not above room temperature. So to preserve your battery when you really need it, take it out.
Set up a Linux VPS server. Let the SSH daemon listen on port 443. From home, mail yourself a VNC client and Putty. Run the VNC viewer at work and using PuTTY, tunnel the traffic to the VPS server.
DO NOT - put in your resume your "superninja@hotmail.com" e-mail address
I second this. Instead, get an address like "jack.sparrow@pirates-ahoyyy.com". Because everyone -- yes including your recruiter -- knows pirates beat ninjas in seconds.
That's pretty funny. You don't understand that most of the hardware you just mentioned [...]
OK, I get it. Reading back, the tone of my message was condescending. But yes, I understand that the hardware is considerably cheaper to the manufacturer. That's why I mentioned 'after negotiating' because I've seen there's a lot of room for that when buying Sun or EMC equipment (and Oracle licenses for that matter).
Still my original point stands, and that is that the hardware still is not pocket change compared to the Oracle licensing. Sure, smaller than before. But not what the GP makes it out to be
It's been a while since I installed Oracle (since 9i) but the GUI wizard installer does not increase the maximum number of semaphores, shared memory stuff etc. While it's not so hard, it also isn't clicking next-next-finish.
Why wouldn't Oracle just throw in the hardware with the costs of the license?
That's pretty funny. Maybe the hardware you use at home is cheap. And maybe you even have a couple of throw-away Supermicros in a datacenter. But the Sun and/or EMC kit that, say, a publisher buys is not cheap. Just a couple of 16-way Sun servers with a decent SAN with backup possibility starts around 250K. After negotiating, that is. Now, you can say that this doesn't matter when your Oracle licenses run up to 2,500K but it still isn't pocket change like you're making it sound like.
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Currently Im 3 paychecks behind...ughh
I can't imagine that everybody at your company is three paychecks behind. There are people with mortgages who would've bolted at the first missed paycheck.
Think about that for a bit.
You do know that asking a subordinate for oral sex is against company policy, right?!
I advise to keep these sort of dealings strictly limited to the parking lot.
What I'm noticing in my small company, is that I send out lots of documents for which it's not necessary for clients to edit these. Thus these all become PDF.
For data exchange, plain CSV is often used. That format predates MS Excel by at least two centuries :-)
It's true that the world runs MS Office, however that's the corporate world. Small companies rarely have the need to export their internal documents to the outside world. So, OO.o is fine in that case.
And here's the Wikipedia entry on the Voight-Kampff machine.
On a related note, the great book is available as an audio book right here
Most AI, even if highly intelligent, will never behave anything like a human, simply because its something vastly different and build for very different tasks.
Yep. Like hunting down and destroying said human.
Just some two years ago, I encountered Mumps while building a connector that pumped medical information from a GP his system into a message server. And yes, the GP his system was entirely written in Mumps.
Aaaaah, fond memories....
That crazy stuff doesn't look like anything you've ever seen before.
It's always kind of creeped me out that Flash even gives applets access to the microphone
Definitely creepy. One time I visited a page with a Flash-based advertisement from (apparently) a French company. When my mouse cursor inadvertently moved over the Flash applet, some kind of contact was made with the company. This French guy was screaming into his microphone "'ello?? 'ELLOO??". And he obviously saw through my cam because he continued: "Bonjour, sire! Whas arr yous eatingue?" just when I was shoving a sandwhich in my pie-hole.
If you are Spanish and use English to speak to Dutch guys in Amsterdam you are fine. But if you are American and expect them to speak in English, not so fine.
Then go work for an American company in The Netherlands. My experience during my time with Oracle is that I met a lot of Australians, New Zealanders and Americans who didn't speak Dutch but mostly understood it.
No problems for them, except the occasional nitpick (who would've found something to nitpick about anyway).
I've come on in the morning and seen what I posted. I've seen what other people have posted.
I live in Europe, you insensitive clod!
I am not an MBA, but [...]
That's good. Otherwise, we'd have to kill you. *sinister silence*
There are very few people left who actually know how to layout and paint a sign by hand like an old pro.
Lots of Brazilians disagree :-) Last time I was in Brazil for my work, the whole city was full of hand-painted signs. It was actually very nice to see, and often done very professionally.
My mother has a computer that was "built for Vista" (which, by the way, MS has admitted was a "marketing overstatement", ie. LIE). It's slow. It crashes ALOT.
Just a suggestion: bring it back to the store. I'm just like you and tried to fix everything myself. Now I have my own business don't have the time for that, I either: 1) tell the seller to come pick it up for repairs 2) if they won't, retract payment from credit card company or 3) scrap it.
I'll admit this is all sounding a bit abrupt but I have come to hate the mucking with Windows.
Qt lost a lot of points in my book for just how much time was destroyed in porting our code to Qt4. Two years later, and we're still asking for bugfixes.
Just curious -- why did you port your code?
[...]the death penalty for spammers all over the world[...]
How old are you?
So you are saying that this may charge 90% in 10 minutes, but in my new quad core dual SLI 20" laptop it will be fully discharged in 10 minutes?
It means that, no, Vista will not be able to complete the booting procedure.
It's definitely not ideal. If you keep it in your laptop, it's going to be much warmer than room temperature (because the laptop is warm) and fully charged.
Basically that's really bad storage. See here:
Wikipedia on Li-ion battery life
To summarize the above page, it's best to store a battery a bit less than half-charged, and not above room temperature. So to preserve your battery when you really need it, take it out.
eeStor's superduperultracapacitor (...) will change the world.
Change? Charge, you mean. :D
when it comes to banging out a GUI .exe for windows users to use quickly, I don't think there are better choices.
I've got a Q and a t who think otherwise. Product page: http://trolltech.com/products/qt/ Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(toolkit)
Set up a Linux VPS server. Let the SSH daemon listen on port 443. From home, mail yourself a VNC client and Putty. Run the VNC viewer at work and using PuTTY, tunnel the traffic to the VPS server.
DO NOT - put in your resume your "superninja@hotmail.com" e-mail address
I second this. Instead, get an address like
"jack.sparrow@pirates-ahoyyy.com". Because everyone -- yes including your recruiter -- knows pirates beat ninjas in seconds.
You can actually hear the simultaneous erections
If erections actually made a sound, I guess this world would be completely different!
That's pretty funny. You don't understand that most of the hardware you just mentioned [...]
OK, I get it. Reading back, the tone of my message was condescending. But yes, I understand that the hardware is considerably cheaper to the manufacturer. That's why I mentioned 'after negotiating' because I've seen there's a lot of room for that when buying Sun or EMC equipment (and Oracle licenses for that matter).
Still my original point stands, and that is that the hardware still is not pocket change compared to the Oracle licensing. Sure, smaller than before. But not what the GP makes it out to be
It's been a while since I installed Oracle (since 9i) but the GUI wizard installer does not increase the maximum number of semaphores, shared memory stuff etc. While it's not so hard, it also isn't clicking next-next-finish.
Why wouldn't Oracle just throw in the hardware with the costs of the license?
That's pretty funny. Maybe the hardware you use at home is cheap. And maybe you even have a couple of throw-away Supermicros in a datacenter. But the Sun and/or EMC kit that, say, a publisher buys is not cheap. Just a couple of 16-way Sun servers with a decent SAN with backup possibility starts around 250K. After negotiating, that is. Now, you can say that this doesn't matter when your Oracle licenses run up to 2,500K but it still isn't pocket change like you're making it sound like.