I have installed firefox for dozens of people not one of them ever complained
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I would like to add that although many of these people use firefox having been converted from IE, they are rarely "power" users and often, despite being shown, don't make much use of tabbed browser if at all! I, on the other hand, usually have at least five tabs open just for work purposes, and thus often have 7 (as at moment) and as many as 10. I am thus fairly sure that mono-tabbers make much lower demands on their system and have lower expectations than we poly-tabbers!
Are you a poly-tabber and do you get low memory usage?
there are lots of theories that to be a top level director goes hand in hand with being a sociopath, here's one result from google.
I've worked for many different companies, privately owned and public, and I would disagree with this a somewhat; but I would agree that being ruthless and totally pragmatic is an absolute necessity, as is a willingness to play god with people's lives.
I think it's the culture of an organisation which can encourage that sort of ruthlessness, I saw it in one employer (who were very ruthless when they cut 20 people earlier this year, including me), by the way they dealt with people who were "let go".
the cost of the engineers, designers and testers are largely irrelevant compared to the cost of the actual silicon foundries these days.
I would thus speculate that Intel are seeking to gain some sort of political foothold in the huge developing market in India and the region.
haven't Intel also done some deals to set up design centres in China to also gain political leverage and fast-track approvals for their products there?
if you had both, then I'd use the machine with the hated OS as a router for the one I liked. I could then enjoy watching the windows box getting haxxored to bits from my smug ivory tower.
yes, I have done web development, at an internet provider, and we had customers using linux and mac as well as Windows. I tested web pages using W3C for validity of html and css, verified functionality in FF, Opera and IE; usually I had to then break the standards to make things work ok in IE (because I had a luser of a manager who didn't understand anything else except IE). d'oh.
You've both got valid points. Yes, firefox was free, but there's a sort of social contract that suggests that at least the critical security fixes are retroactively applied to older versions - if nothing else so that people developing websites can run old versions safely to check compatibility with users who haven't upgraded or verify that a broken website really is broken and not a bug in newer release of FF.
On the other hand, sure, you didn't pay for it, so you'll have to ask nicely for someone to provide the back-ports. Ever considered how SuSE and Redhat make any money from linux - it's because people don't want forced mass upgrades to kernels and libraries on their important databases; SuSE routinely back-port patches into older kernel sources for security.
in unix, mv is an "atomic" operation, meaning that the file will not be in two places at the same time. What happens is that the file's data is "unhooked" from its original directory and hooked onto the new directory, so the data doesn't move, only the place it appears in the file system - effectively a hard link shift.
Now, that that, it only applies if you're moving a file around in the same file system. If you move a file between one disk/partition/filesystem and another, it is a process of
This is indeed the case - some very valuable libraries were left intact by the Romans as they were uninterested in the paper, but anything of immediate value was taken. Some very rare copies of the bible were recovered this way.
both sentences would have worked, grammatically. I could have said instead of proportion, percentage "I could have bought a significant percentage of Ohio"... see?
technically, the variants would have been different, but WHO CARES!
wowzers, what sort of phone are you using? My Nokia 6310i and Logitech headset get charged once a week! Admittedly I'm not a major chatterer, but there's still loads of battery life left!
an excellent book which covers, amongst many other things, how people do behave over how they say they'll behave is
Freakonomics.
for example, they cover how people behave about race and dating, whilst people SAY they have little preference, analysis from dating agencies shows the opposite. Even some game show stats are used to prove people are prejudiced.
Adams and Franklin were refering to resisting an occupation force, the US is combating an externally commanded
the citizens of the USA *should* be resisting an occupation force called its government behind which lie the Almighty Dollar of Big Corporates which have taken control of the country.
our reliability record for AMD systems is mindblowingly shocking
I'll agree with that, a lot of the early opteron boxes we bought at $JOB-1 had problems - I think that Tyan rushed out the motherboards in the Black Box Servers and they were not very robust. That said, Black Box Server's build was quite poor too.
I think your idea is really key - you LEASE the battery from the energy company, and when you get to an energy station you can simply swap the non-full "battery" for a full one. It avoids recharge times, and means too that the often complex optimised charging circuitry can be made best use of.
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[aol]me too![/aol]
I would like to add that although many of these people use firefox having been converted from IE, they are rarely "power" users and often, despite being shown, don't make much use of tabbed browser if at all! I, on the other hand, usually have at least five tabs open just for work purposes, and thus often have 7 (as at moment) and as many as 10. I am thus fairly sure that mono-tabbers make much lower demands on their system and have lower expectations than we poly-tabbers!
Are you a poly-tabber and do you get low memory usage?
I've worked for many different companies, privately owned and public, and I would disagree with this a somewhat; but I would agree that being ruthless and totally pragmatic is an absolute necessity, as is a willingness to play god with people's lives.
I think it's the culture of an organisation which can encourage that sort of ruthlessness, I saw it in one employer (who were very ruthless when they cut 20 people earlier this year, including me), by the way they dealt with people who were "let go".
I would thus speculate that Intel are seeking to gain some sort of political foothold in the huge developing market in India and the region.
haven't Intel also done some deals to set up design centres in China to also gain political leverage and fast-track approvals for their products there?
if you had both, then I'd use the machine with the hated OS as a router for the one I liked. I could then enjoy watching the windows box getting haxxored to bits from my smug ivory tower.
yes, I have done web development, at an internet provider, and we had customers using linux and mac as well as Windows. I tested web pages using W3C for validity of html and css, verified functionality in FF, Opera and IE; usually I had to then break the standards to make things work ok in IE (because I had a luser of a manager who didn't understand anything else except IE). d'oh.
now now, gentlemen.
You've both got valid points. Yes, firefox was free, but there's a sort of social contract that suggests that at least the critical security fixes are retroactively applied to older versions - if nothing else so that people developing websites can run old versions safely to check compatibility with users who haven't upgraded or verify that a broken website really is broken and not a bug in newer release of FF.
On the other hand, sure, you didn't pay for it, so you'll have to ask nicely for someone to provide the back-ports. Ever considered how SuSE and Redhat make any money from linux - it's because people don't want forced mass upgrades to kernels and libraries on their important databases; SuSE routinely back-port patches into older kernel sources for security.
it probably runs on a fuel called hydrogen.
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$2000: New Hardware
$ 900: Vista License
$2100: Solid Gold Mouse
hospital bill after being beaten up by angry customers when the systems go down - priceless, for everything else there's mastercard
Now, that that, it only applies if you're moving a file around in the same file system. If you move a file between one disk/partition/filesystem and another, it is a process of
copy to temporary
rename target
delete original
a bit of JFGI and I found it:
makezine article
not out of the box.. but you can put a 3G data card into a laptop, or the latest Flybook has a 3G modem built in.
This is indeed the case - some very valuable libraries were left intact by the Romans as they were uninterested in the paper, but anything of immediate value was taken. Some very rare copies of the bible were recovered this way.
technically, the variants would have been different, but WHO CARES!
might be an interesting way to do electronic tagging of criminals, need a bluetooth gps watch which reports location via mobile phone to police.
wowzers, what sort of phone are you using? My Nokia 6310i and Logitech headset get charged once a week! Admittedly I'm not a major chatterer, but there's still loads of battery life left!
for that price in Ohio
for that price I'd expect to buy a large proportion of Ohio
an excellent book which covers, amongst many other things, how people do behave over how they say they'll behave is Freakonomics.
for example, they cover how people behave about race and dating, whilst people SAY they have little preference, analysis from dating agencies shows the opposite. Even some game show stats are used to prove people are prejudiced.
the citizens of the USA *should* be resisting an occupation force called its government behind which lie the Almighty Dollar of Big Corporates which have taken control of the country.
I'll agree with that, a lot of the early opteron boxes we bought at $JOB-1 had problems - I think that Tyan rushed out the motherboards in the Black Box Servers and they were not very robust. That said, Black Box Server's build was quite poor too.
anyone tried to open them their hotel mini-bar key?
that's how I met your wife too! BTW, your bathroom fan's bearings need replacing, and your bedroom curtains are hideous.
surely this is the perfect design for most slashdotters?
the useful life of your vehicle is extended because it doesn't become uneconomic to replace the pack
advanced in energy storage mean you get to upgrade
it's worth an upfront investment into making the packs recyclable by design
I think your idea is really key - you LEASE the battery from the energy company, and when you get to an energy station you can simply swap the non-full "battery" for a full one. It avoids recharge times, and means too that the often complex optimised charging circuitry can be made best use of.