I spend quite a bit of time in the Yahooniverse, as well. It's a little disorienting to bounce back and forth between the two, but doesn't seem to cause any permanent damage.
I know it's terribly superstitious, but this is an excellent mindset to be in when you're in a position of responsibility (especially when you're feeling somewhat lazy). After all, the thing that goes wrong always seems to be the thing you forgot to plan for, or deliberately ignored, right?
And what if the U.N. decided not to give Taiwan control of the.tw TLD, or to not have a.tw TLD at all, due to China's insistence that Taiwan is not an independent country?
Someone has to be in control at the top, and there will always be the potential for political interference.
My 5-year-old son has received a few small sets of imitation-Legos. They appear to be the correct size, etc., to intermingle with real Legos. But the quality of these imitations is so poor that pieces either don't stick together very well, or are impossible to pull apart, he gets pretty frustrated. Meanwhile, I let my sons play with my 20-year-old space legos all the time, and everything still fits together perfectly. You can get away with low quality with a lot of toys, but tiny little building bricks are not a place to cut corners.
(Not that I wouldn't mind seeing a little competition keep prices lower on real Legos!)
I haven't tried my ol' Umax 3400 with WinXP, since I could never get the colors right with Win2000 (waaay too much red). For a long time I hung onto my ancient Mac in order to get decent-looking scans. But just recently, I set up Ubuntu on another PC and tried XSane with the scanner. The scanner was recognized instantly, the picture quality is great, and the software interface is SO much nicer than the Umax software. (I am far from a Linux expert, BTW!)
Why was the parent modded as a Troll? Being married to a librarian, I found this funny. Librarians contend with people donating their 50-year collections of National Geographic all the time, as if they are some kind of rare collectible. Clean out everyone's attics, ship 'em south, and bulk up the whole city.
That dongle used to drive me nuts, too, but then a coworker pointed out that it was still an ethernet card inside the Mac. The dongle was to enable the card to connect to either an RJ-45-ended cable, or something else with a different type of connector (thinnet, perhaps? it's been a while). That made me feel better about Apple, at least until the next dongle popped off on its own.
Well, there goes all the hot air out of this story. Good thing you're not a/. editor, or there would be just a fraction of the hype, and posts, on this site.;-)
I don't understand why people sit around crying about the fact that someone has died. Why not celebrate the life they lived?
What makes you think that these are opposing viewpoints? You sound like someone not old enough to have experienced the death of anyone whose life you personally celebrated.
There was a person who once worked on my team who used Comic Sans for *everything*, including technical documentation. Drove me nuts. Of course, this same person's favorite character in SW Episode I was - you guessed it - Jar Jar Binks. "He's so funny!" Ugh.
I was a pretty sarcastic kid until I read that line in "A Separate Peace." It really made me stop and realize that while sarcasm is great for an occasional bit of humor, but it's a sad excuse for saying something worthwhile.
Yup. I'd assumed it was due to subject lines being identical to something found in another story (who knows how Slash really works? not me!). Guess not, though!
One of the major issues to cause tensions between North and South, leading up to the Civil War, was the right of northern states to grant protection to runaway slaves. The (Federal) Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 overrode the northern states' laws that offered such protection.
So it wasn't just the Southern states that used the States Rights issue to get their way before the war, and subsequently got steamrolled by the Federal gov't. The power of "States Rights", as a whole, was greatly diminished in this time.
I know you're not kidding. You sound like my Mom, who has openly expressed her concern that I was not going to heaven when I wasn't going to Church regularly. She's not a raving lunatic, or anything, either, just quietly quite conservative.
She's much happier now that I've joined the handbell choir. Apparently musicians get a higher priority at the Pearly Gates.:-)
Out of curiosity, why don't you load the tasktray icon? MS Office uses the same trick (no icon in the tray, but code is loaded at startup via the shortcut in the Startup folder) to load faster when you open a Word file.
I certainly hope my kids will learn more in high school than how to be good secretaries. I wrote school papers with pen/paper, and later with AppleWorks, yet I have somehow managed to move on.
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"pimple-faced geeks" doesn't necessarily exclude girls, y'know. Not sure about "RMS-like characters," nor do I really want to think about it.
I totally agree. I've lost track of how many times I, as the designer, *think* I know how to get from point A to point C, but it isn't until I attempt to show the flow graphically that I see the gaping holes in my understanding. It's just too easy to bog down in the detailed text, especially early on in the process.
A high-level view of the flow is especially handy when bringing a programmer up to speed on a project quickly. Often, by the time we introduce the project to the developer(s), I've been researching the topic for weeks, and can overwhelm them with obscure details without conveying the overall goals, if I'm not careful.
How much of that noise comes from other wireless hubs, and how much comes from 2.4 GHz cordless phones? I don't see how a few additional access points will foul up the spectrum significantly more than it already is.
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I spend quite a bit of time in the Yahooniverse, as well. It's a little disorienting to bounce back and forth between the two, but doesn't seem to cause any permanent damage.
I know it's terribly superstitious, but this is an excellent mindset to be in when you're in a position of responsibility (especially when you're feeling somewhat lazy). After all, the thing that goes wrong always seems to be the thing you forgot to plan for, or deliberately ignored, right?
And what if the U.N. decided not to give Taiwan control of the .tw TLD, or to not have a .tw TLD at all, due to China's insistence that Taiwan is not an independent country?
Someone has to be in control at the top, and there will always be the potential for political interference.
Can a person be shot slowly? :-)
(Not that I wouldn't mind seeing a little competition keep prices lower on real Legos!)
I haven't tried my ol' Umax 3400 with WinXP, since I could never get the colors right with Win2000 (waaay too much red). For a long time I hung onto my ancient Mac in order to get decent-looking scans. But just recently, I set up Ubuntu on another PC and tried XSane with the scanner. The scanner was recognized instantly, the picture quality is great, and the software interface is SO much nicer than the Umax software. (I am far from a Linux expert, BTW!)
The other servers turn Communist?
What would they call New Orleans if they rebuilt the city in a different location?
Why was the parent modded as a Troll? Being married to a librarian, I found this funny. Librarians contend with people donating their 50-year collections of National Geographic all the time, as if they are some kind of rare collectible. Clean out everyone's attics, ship 'em south, and bulk up the whole city.
That dongle used to drive me nuts, too, but then a coworker pointed out that it was still an ethernet card inside the Mac. The dongle was to enable the card to connect to either an RJ-45-ended cable, or something else with a different type of connector (thinnet, perhaps? it's been a while). That made me feel better about Apple, at least until the next dongle popped off on its own.
Well, there goes all the hot air out of this story. Good thing you're not a /. editor, or there would be just a fraction of the hype, and posts, on this site. ;-)
What makes you think that these are opposing viewpoints? You sound like someone not old enough to have experienced the death of anyone whose life you personally celebrated.
How long before this guy gets sued for $300 million by a Russian astrologer for interfering with her "calculations"?
Huh? Ouch?
What a great site!
There was a person who once worked on my team who used Comic Sans for *everything*, including technical documentation. Drove me nuts. Of course, this same person's favorite character in SW Episode I was - you guessed it - Jar Jar Binks. "He's so funny!" Ugh.
I was a pretty sarcastic kid until I read that line in "A Separate Peace." It really made me stop and realize that while sarcasm is great for an occasional bit of humor, but it's a sad excuse for saying something worthwhile.
Yup. I'd assumed it was due to subject lines being identical to something found in another story (who knows how Slash really works? not me!). Guess not, though!
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Here are 3 in a row, from AC's:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=15042
One of the major issues to cause tensions between North and South, leading up to the Civil War, was the right of northern states to grant protection to runaway slaves. The (Federal) Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 overrode the northern states' laws that offered such protection. So it wasn't just the Southern states that used the States Rights issue to get their way before the war, and subsequently got steamrolled by the Federal gov't. The power of "States Rights", as a whole, was greatly diminished in this time.
I know you're not kidding. You sound like my Mom, who has openly expressed her concern that I was not going to heaven when I wasn't going to Church regularly. She's not a raving lunatic, or anything, either, just quietly quite conservative.
:-)
She's much happier now that I've joined the handbell choir. Apparently musicians get a higher priority at the Pearly Gates.
Out of curiosity, why don't you load the tasktray icon? MS Office uses the same trick (no icon in the tray, but code is loaded at startup via the shortcut in the Startup folder) to load faster when you open a Word file.
I certainly hope my kids will learn more in high school than how to be good secretaries. I wrote school papers with pen/paper, and later with AppleWorks, yet I have somehow managed to move on.
"pimple-faced geeks" doesn't necessarily exclude girls, y'know. Not sure about "RMS-like characters," nor do I really want to think about it.
I totally agree. I've lost track of how many times I, as the designer, *think* I know how to get from point A to point C, but it isn't until I attempt to show the flow graphically that I see the gaping holes in my understanding. It's just too easy to bog down in the detailed text, especially early on in the process.
A high-level view of the flow is especially handy when bringing a programmer up to speed on a project quickly. Often, by the time we introduce the project to the developer(s), I've been researching the topic for weeks, and can overwhelm them with obscure details without conveying the overall goals, if I'm not careful.
How much of that noise comes from other wireless hubs, and how much comes from 2.4 GHz cordless phones? I don't see how a few additional access points will foul up the spectrum significantly more than it already is.
I interpreted the article to mean that police would use the new network for data transfers. I didn't see anything about replacing radios with VOIP.