Google "LaTeX for humanities" and you'll get back a number of useful hits about using LaTeX for non-math/non-science writing; from what I can tell, this type of usage is increasing. If I would have discovered LaTeX sooner, I could have saved myself a world of pain over the years.
Now if I can only get my employer to see the light...
I used BeOS as my sole home OS over a period of 2-3 years starting with v3 and ending with v5.0.3. IF you had supported hardware on your PC, it was a fantastic OS. I was using a generic ATX motherboard, Pentium II 300MHz CPU, 192MB RAM, 4 GB IDE hard drive (I forget what brand), Creative 6x DVD drive, STB Velocity 128 8MB PCI video card, and an SB Live sound card. My installation was fast and stable: I could never crash the machine through my daily tasks of web surfing, document creation (using Gobe Productive 2.0), and lots of MP3 ripping. If I still had that PC in my house, I'd put BeOS on it again in a heartbeat.
Well, I was watching the results until around 2:30 am Eastern Time (I live in Ohio) and frankly, the margin WAS too close to call at that point in time given the number of provisional ballots which needed to be counted. I applaud CNN for saying they wouldn't project a winner until they had more solid information.
I'm coming in on this thread a little late, but the best workspace I was ever in had one feature that I love: I could stand up while I work. My workspace had table/writing surfaces at a nice comfortable standing height, so I could stand or perch on a high stool at my workstation as my mood took me, or I could sit in a comfy chair at a small side table if I was working on paper-based stuff by myself or with someone else. This was ideal for me as I tend to pace around a lot while I'm talking on the phone to customers (headset, long cord, no speakerphone for me unless I'm in a conference room - wonder if we can get those outlawed or make them a hanging offense.... moving on), plus it was easier to move from PC to whiteboard and back. It was also an office with a lockable door and a REAL window to the outdoors looking on trees...
I don't think he missed the point at all... Europeans tend to have a much better grasp of work/life balance than we here in the US and choose to keep work and home life separated.
Speaking only for myself, I'm much happier now that my job no longer requires schlepping a laptop to and from work (and believe me, when a company issues a laptop to you, there IS an implicit expectation that you WILL work at home in addition to the time you put in in the office since they fill your daytime hours with useless meetings... but I digress). Thus, when I leave work, I am DONE until the next work day.
Good points everyone! I tend to forget that not everyone has access to techie friends to help them out. Maybe this is something that could be addressed in those lovely startup tutorials OEMs seem to like putting on computers. I know it won't help someone who buys a secondhand box, but it's at least an opportunity to get these concepts in front of users.
I may be expecting too much here, but it seems logical to me that even the most clueless luser might suspect that something was amiss if a flood of porn started popping up out of nowhere and at least ask a literate friend what's up. Like the first poster, I'm a little suspicious that this type of problem could go unnoticed for very long.
Whether you agree with the war in Iraq or not (for the record, I was in the US Army once myself and I do not support the war), the invasion of Afghanistan was based on solid evidence of terrorist activity and was approved by the UN BEFORE we invaded.
All that aside, you really can't help but respect a man who decides that he can make a personal contribution to something that he believes in and then does it with no interviews to the press explaining his decision or expectation of personal gain, indeed, he wound up giving up everything for that.
I'd like to see you have the balls to make that kind of a decision.
Mod me a Luddite troll if you wish, but it seems to me that this is an appropriate time to step back and ask ourselves why we need all this computing power at our fingertips everywhere we go. I tried really hard to get into the PDA thing as well as having had to use laptop computers for my job over the years, however I've found that the best computing toolset I could carry for the any business trips was... a good pen and a pad of paper along with a decent solar-powered scientific calculator. Never ran out of power at incoonvenient times, never had to be rebooted because it locked up, never started beeping uncontrollably in the middle of a meeting, and it had an friendly interface able to tackle any task from word processing to number-crunching. My doodling during boring meetings even looked attentive and productive rather than looking like someone playing a video game...
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The technology in the satellites may be obsolete, but I'm wondering how much in the way of materials could be recycled/recovered from any given satellite. After all, there is only so much metal available and to waste it through de-orbiting a satellite or boosting it into interplanetary space seems wasteful, especially give the number of times the shuttle came back empty from trips made to deploy a satellite. IANA physicist so I don't know if the long-term exposure to cosmic radiation would render this option unfeasable.
As an owner of the first-generation 20GB iPod, I can say that it might be worth it to me to buy a mini - here's why. First, I still haven't filled the damn thing even close to halfway full (and I've been trying pretty hard), which is a good indicator to me that I goofed on my size guesstimate. Second, I could do with something that fits in a pocket a little bit better. Finally, and I'm willing to be wrong on this one, updates to the first-gen models are no longer being provided. All in all, it might be worth it to move the large-capacity iPod over to an external FireWire HD role and get something smaller for daily carry.
That's why it's called "at-will" employment. If that was in the paperwork you signed when you were hired, you can be separated at the employer's discretion, the same rule that allows you to pick up and leave if you desire it.
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I totally agree with this.
Google "LaTeX for humanities" and you'll get back a number of useful hits about using LaTeX for non-math/non-science writing; from what I can tell, this type of usage is increasing. If I would have discovered LaTeX sooner, I could have saved myself a world of pain over the years.
Now if I can only get my employer to see the light...
I used BeOS as my sole home OS over a period of 2-3 years starting with v3 and ending with v5.0.3. IF you had supported hardware on your PC, it was a fantastic OS. I was using a generic ATX motherboard, Pentium II 300MHz CPU, 192MB RAM, 4 GB IDE hard drive (I forget what brand), Creative 6x DVD drive, STB Velocity 128 8MB PCI video card, and an SB Live sound card. My installation was fast and stable: I could never crash the machine through my daily tasks of web surfing, document creation (using Gobe Productive 2.0), and lots of MP3 ripping. If I still had that PC in my house, I'd put BeOS on it again in a heartbeat.
Well, I was watching the results until around 2:30 am Eastern Time (I live in Ohio) and frankly, the margin WAS too close to call at that point in time given the number of provisional ballots which needed to be counted. I applaud CNN for saying they wouldn't project a winner until they had more solid information.
I'm coming in on this thread a little late, but the best workspace I was ever in had one feature that I love: I could stand up while I work. My workspace had table/writing surfaces at a nice comfortable standing height, so I could stand or perch on a high stool at my workstation as my mood took me, or I could sit in a comfy chair at a small side table if I was working on paper-based stuff by myself or with someone else. This was ideal for me as I tend to pace around a lot while I'm talking on the phone to customers (headset, long cord, no speakerphone for me unless I'm in a conference room - wonder if we can get those outlawed or make them a hanging offense.... moving on), plus it was easier to move from PC to whiteboard and back. It was also an office with a lockable door and a REAL window to the outdoors looking on trees...
I don't think he missed the point at all... Europeans tend to have a much better grasp of work/life balance than we here in the US and choose to keep work and home life separated.
Speaking only for myself, I'm much happier now that my job no longer requires schlepping a laptop to and from work (and believe me, when a company issues a laptop to you, there IS an implicit expectation that you WILL work at home in addition to the time you put in in the office since they fill your daytime hours with useless meetings... but I digress). Thus, when I leave work, I am DONE until the next work day.
Work to live, don't live to work...
Good points everyone! I tend to forget that not everyone has access to techie friends to help them out. Maybe this is something that could be addressed in those lovely startup tutorials OEMs seem to like putting on computers. I know it won't help someone who buys a secondhand box, but it's at least an opportunity to get these concepts in front of users.
I may be expecting too much here, but it seems logical to me that even the most clueless luser might suspect that something was amiss if a flood of porn started popping up out of nowhere and at least ask a literate friend what's up. Like the first poster, I'm a little suspicious that this type of problem could go unnoticed for very long.
Whether you agree with the war in Iraq or not (for the record, I was in the US Army once myself and I do not support the war), the invasion of Afghanistan was based on solid evidence of terrorist activity and was approved by the UN BEFORE we invaded.
All that aside, you really can't help but respect a man who decides that he can make a personal contribution to something that he believes in and then does it with no interviews to the press explaining his decision or expectation of personal gain, indeed, he wound up giving up everything for that.
I'd like to see you have the balls to make that kind of a decision.
Mod me a Luddite troll if you wish, but it seems to me that this is an appropriate time to step back and ask ourselves why we need all this computing power at our fingertips everywhere we go. I tried really hard to get into the PDA thing as well as having had to use laptop computers for my job over the years, however I've found that the best computing toolset I could carry for the any business trips was... a good pen and a pad of paper along with a decent solar-powered scientific calculator. Never ran out of power at incoonvenient times, never had to be rebooted because it locked up, never started beeping uncontrollably in the middle of a meeting, and it had an friendly interface able to tackle any task from word processing to number-crunching. My doodling during boring meetings even looked attentive and productive rather than looking like someone playing a video game...
Just remember: common sense isn't [common].
The technology in the satellites may be obsolete, but I'm wondering how much in the way of materials could be recycled/recovered from any given satellite. After all, there is only so much metal available and to waste it through de-orbiting a satellite or boosting it into interplanetary space seems wasteful, especially give the number of times the shuttle came back empty from trips made to deploy a satellite. IANA physicist so I don't know if the long-term exposure to cosmic radiation would render this option unfeasable.
As an owner of the first-generation 20GB iPod, I can say that it might be worth it to me to buy a mini - here's why. First, I still haven't filled the damn thing even close to halfway full (and I've been trying pretty hard), which is a good indicator to me that I goofed on my size guesstimate. Second, I could do with something that fits in a pocket a little bit better. Finally, and I'm willing to be wrong on this one, updates to the first-gen models are no longer being provided. All in all, it might be worth it to move the large-capacity iPod over to an external FireWire HD role and get something smaller for daily carry.
That's why it's called "at-will" employment. If that was in the paperwork you signed when you were hired, you can be separated at the employer's discretion, the same rule that allows you to pick up and leave if you desire it.