After I finished college I never had a job that had less than 3 weeks paid vacation plus hollidays. At my current job I have to work 10 years before I can get 4 weeks/year though. Plus if I work at least an hour, my boss counts it as a full day, but he expects me to be honest about it (I cant work one hour every day for a week, but if I get to work and feel sick, if I'm there for an hour he doesn't make me take a sick day. - that works out well for doctor/dentist appointments)
I can accumulate 2x my anual leave (so I can accumulate 6 weeks now, after 10 years of service, which I doubt I'll see, I could accumulate 8 weeks total).
I have an agreement that says I can telecommute one day per week. Some weeks it is difficult to schedule that day if I have a lot of meetings.
One day might not seem like much, but it gets me away from the commute one day and lets me do a few things around the house instead of being stuck an hour away all day
example: I had a problem with my heating system, so I scheduled the maintenance for a work from home day so I could be there when they were working on the furnace. The work from home day worked out good when I bought a new house and had to stick around my house all afternoon for the cable company to establish service
at my last job there was a tron arcade game a few offices away. When it first arrived it was broken, but they repaired it just before I left...
That is probably a little over 50 miles away from where I am right now
I work at the Jackson Lab, but as a software engineer (working with computational biologists to write parallel code). It's pretty facinating place. we have over 1200 employees divided into two major groups - pure research and JRS (Jackson Research Systems) which breeds and sells about 3000 different mice to the scientific community. Many of our 3000 strains of mice are available only from the Jackson Laboratory - surplus money from mice sales goes to pay for research support (research scientists apply for grants but the mice sales surplus helps pay for operating costs). It's the worlds largest mamallian research facility
maybe that was the case 4+ years ago.
now most windows users use media player (now those that know better probably use something else, but most windows users don't know better).
I had been interested in macs since OS X came out. My only previous expreince was using a iMac running OS 9 (I think) to digitize some video using iMovie. I hated that thing - I couldn't even browse the web while the video was encoding because it didn't have preemptive multi-tasking.
I worked in the HPC area and got sent out to WWDC '04 because we were getting a 512 processor mac cluster (the ink was just drying on the PO when I flew out). I was a complete Mac newbie, but I was very impressed with everything I saw at the developers conference. As soon as the iMac G5s were available for sale I ordered one for my desk at work - that was my first Mac ever. I switched from a linux workstation to an iMac at work.
Then I took another job at a large research lab with a good mix of windows and mac. My group was windows, but I was able to convince my manager I would be much more productive with a mac, so when I showed up to work I was the first person in the group with a mac - although I do have a P4 windows box under my desk to run a proprietary windows only managment app - which we are now talking about replacing with something that is cross platform:)
Now I'm a hardcore mac fan.
devorak is a complete moron. I don't know why anyone would pay that dumb ass to write about technology
maybe I can get a job I'm not qualified for... does anyone want to pay me to spout nonsense about high temperature plasma physics?
"Why was Apple so asinine and inane as to not just make the new Intel-based iron capable of booting Windows and Linux disros as is?"
they needes something other than BIOS to do things like firewire disk mode. EFI made sense. Linux will be quick - redhat enterprise boots on EFI systems with ELILO (used on itaniums). future versions of windows will natively support EFI. It didn't make sense for Apple to go with BIOS, especially when they don't have to maintain compatibility with old intel systems.
I'm a mid-20s, educated (masters degree), upper middle class American, and when I'm with my buddies about every other word is "fuck". Especially when we are drinking or playing poker. However, I am usually quite civilized when I'm in public
Steve has several people that screen his emails - and I wouldn't be surprised if they occasionally respond for him...He gets thousands per week and they need to make sure that legitimate emails don't get lost in all the lame emails from douchebag fanboys asking him about vegan recipies
Too bad they can't win a contract to run the country. They would probably be more efficient than our current federal goverment, although they have been plagued with problems at LANL the last several years
I think we need to impose strict trade sanctions on this University of California to try to pressure them into abandoning their nuclear weapons program. Obviously they are often over looked, but infact they may be as much of a threat to our way of life as Iran and North Korea. We can't let roque nations, like University of California, pursue their nuclear ambitions.
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I can accumulate 2x my anual leave (so I can accumulate 6 weeks now, after 10 years of service, which I doubt I'll see, I could accumulate 8 weeks total).
I think "vagina" would be pretty popular too
SOME of OS X is open source. The things that make OSX OSX (things like Aqua, core[audio,image,data], Quartz, Cocoa, Carbon, DisplayPDF) are not.
One day might not seem like much, but it gets me away from the commute one day and lets me do a few things around the house instead of being stuck an hour away all day
example: I had a problem with my heating system, so I scheduled the maintenance for a work from home day so I could be there when they were working on the furnace. The work from home day worked out good when I bought a new house and had to stick around my house all afternoon for the cable company to establish service
nonconsumable resource?
at my last job there was a tron arcade game a few offices away. When it first arrived it was broken, but they repaired it just before I left... That is probably a little over 50 miles away from where I am right now
I take it you haven't been to Nevada
I had a CS professor that had an iMac in his office with a post it note stuck above the screen that said "This is a frigging PC"
I work at the Jackson Lab, but as a software engineer (working with computational biologists to write parallel code). It's pretty facinating place. we have over 1200 employees divided into two major groups - pure research and JRS (Jackson Research Systems) which breeds and sells about 3000 different mice to the scientific community. Many of our 3000 strains of mice are available only from the Jackson Laboratory - surplus money from mice sales goes to pay for research support (research scientists apply for grants but the mice sales surplus helps pay for operating costs). It's the worlds largest mamallian research facility
maybe that was the case 4+ years ago. now most windows users use media player (now those that know better probably use something else, but most windows users don't know better).
somehow I think if Apple had been involved in a consumer OS based on the NT kernel we would have ended up with something better than windows XP
I worked in the HPC area and got sent out to WWDC '04 because we were getting a 512 processor mac cluster (the ink was just drying on the PO when I flew out). I was a complete Mac newbie, but I was very impressed with everything I saw at the developers conference. As soon as the iMac G5s were available for sale I ordered one for my desk at work - that was my first Mac ever. I switched from a linux workstation to an iMac at work. Then I took another job at a large research lab with a good mix of windows and mac. My group was windows, but I was able to convince my manager I would be much more productive with a mac, so when I showed up to work I was the first person in the group with a mac - although I do have a P4 windows box under my desk to run a proprietary windows only managment app - which we are now talking about replacing with something that is cross platform :)
Now I'm a hardcore mac fan.
devorak is a complete moron. I don't know why anyone would pay that dumb ass to write about technology maybe I can get a job I'm not qualified for... does anyone want to pay me to spout nonsense about high temperature plasma physics?
Just think, SGI could have been the leader in PC 3D graphics.
they needes something other than BIOS to do things like firewire disk mode. EFI made sense. Linux will be quick - redhat enterprise boots on EFI systems with ELILO (used on itaniums). future versions of windows will natively support EFI. It didn't make sense for Apple to go with BIOS, especially when they don't have to maintain compatibility with old intel systems.
Objective C is used for Cocoa applications. The kernel is mostly C. IO Kit Drivers use a subset of c++. All compiled with gcc.
women thend to keep the hedge a little more trimmed today
OS X = superior technology
I'm a mid-20s, educated (masters degree), upper middle class American, and when I'm with my buddies about every other word is "fuck". Especially when we are drinking or playing poker. However, I am usually quite civilized when I'm in public
Steve has several people that screen his emails - and I wouldn't be surprised if they occasionally respond for him...He gets thousands per week and they need to make sure that legitimate emails don't get lost in all the lame emails from douchebag fanboys asking him about vegan recipies
xnu isn't a microkernel.
Too bad they can't win a contract to run the country. They would probably be more efficient than our current federal goverment, although they have been plagued with problems at LANL the last several years
I think we need to impose strict trade sanctions on this University of California to try to pressure them into abandoning their nuclear weapons program. Obviously they are often over looked, but infact they may be as much of a threat to our way of life as Iran and North Korea. We can't let roque nations, like University of California, pursue their nuclear ambitions.
cut your hair short and you'd look just like a skinny geek guy