Gone are the days where people plan for the very small chance a machine has no sound. In 1992, maybe you could expect such a thing - but it's now 2002. If you don't have sound set up, you can't expect anyone to code for that. It's almost like saying that you don't like to run in graphics mode, then getting annoyed that a GUI program doesn't work.
Any machine without sound or even with it disabled is in the very small minority. You've made that choice, and it's not everyone else's responsibility to work around that.
No. Coffee actually tastes good, while smoking has no other point than nicotine (and making you look cool).
Many people for medical or other reasons cannot have caffeine at all. Other choose not to, because there are some really detrimental effects to drinking it.
Yeah, no kidding. When I read stuff from all these caffeinated kids it makes me cringe. It's exactly the "I need X more cups of coffee in the morning than you" type pissing contest that gets me the most.
Congratulations, you are all addicts.
At least we can be comforted in the fact that caffeine lowers your sperm count. That, coupled with the very low likelyhood that most people here even have girlfriends, says some good things about what the gene pool will look like in 20 years.
This shouldn't exist in the news archives or anywhere. Even if it will fall off the bottom of the page *eventually*, It'll still going to be on the "older news" pages for days!
DELETE THE FUCKING POST!!!
Oh, and if you delete it, any record of your fuck-up sill disappear.
Well, not sure exactly what your company does and your personal project does, but it seems that if the two are so similar that clients from one job might want what the other company has, you shouldn't have ever started working on your personal project. You might be forced to give all your work to your company, because of any agreements you might've signed.
Another option might be to work a deal with the company you work for, and license them the code or reseller rights or whatever.
Depending on how they set things up, it probably won't affect most things that are deemed "what normal people should do". ICQ and AIM will work fine, except generally for file transfers. You might also have trouble with voice-IP apps. Other than that, there are answers to most of the arguments that can be made, mostly, "you should be using university managed machines for that."
What it will do is shut down most of the pirates, which is probably why their doing it, and napster.
Most universities pay discounted rates for their net connections, but some of the stipulations are that it only be used for educational purposes, and maybe a bandwidth limit. Lots of incoming traffic to the student net most likely means stuff is going on that shouldn't be.
Probably your only real argument will be simply that in a university environment, you shouldn't restrict stuff because of free expression, blah blah blah... oh, and "once you do this, where does it end?"
The only problem with bluetooth is that some tech writer got wind of it long before it was ready, and started telling everyone about it. It's developing very well, and there is a new version of the spec (1.1) on its way RSN. Most developers are waiting for that release.
Just think about the technology, even if it doesn't blow the doors off everything like everyone says it will, it's still very useful and will be picked up in the right applications. It might need the right application to really get going (look at IrDA and Palm pilots), but it'll be really cool.
You may be used to white text on a black screen, but a normal user is used to the text being black (like ink on paper). I personally can feel my eyes relax when I switch between black on white and white on black screens.
The really optimal colors are black text on a wheat background. It's not as bright at white, and still has a very good contrast to it.
I'll also bet your eyes were younger when you were on monochrome displays:)
Yes, this is a pretty common practice. Is it really that objectionable? Training usually costs quite a bit of money, in the $1000s, so a company needs to protect itself from people who will just join up, get a lot of training, then leave. They need time to recover on their investment.
I would say that 1 year would be the limit though, anything longer and the scale is tipped towards the company.
Redhat has a history of doing things like this. In some earlier versions, they decided to include development versions of Perl. This really messed up everyone doing Perl support, and, of course, screwed up everyone who was using it.
One thing I've heard many times is that an overseas company will give a very lowball time estimate, like say, 40 hours, when the project will really take 80 hours. Then, when the workers don't meet the timeline, they take it as a personal failure, and work double time. That's not good for quality.
This is a symptom of caffeine addiction. Inability to concentrate, anxiety, etc.. Also, cut down of sugar. Sugar affects your brain, making it harder to concentrate on mathematical types of problems (like programming). Stop drinking soda and start drinking water.
We've never had privacy. The idea that we are losing it now is a farce. For at least the past 20 years, companies have been tracking you through your credit cards, tracking what you buy, etc.. It's only now that the Internet is around that people think it's an issue. How many people have a discount card for thier grocery store? They're tracking you there too.
Privacy is a farce, and it's never been garunteed by the constitution as a basic human right. Get over it, and move on.
Do any of you actually *read* that articles here? The article says nothing about paper, and actually says, "Seiko Epson can deposit individual pixels of red, green and blue LEPs directly onto a silicon substrate."
On the surface, this seems like a good idea. But, if you think about it a little more, it's a really really bad idea.
Consider: Your device has a virtual input area. That area could presumably be controlled by the developer of the application you are using. They decide they need a little more screen space, and shrink it down, only, now you can't use your device for input, because you were used to the size and location it was at before. Do you really want to trust a developer with this important function? (face it, someone who knows how to make cool code usually doesn't realize that they don't know anything about interface design)
Ok, make it unchangeable by app developers, and only configurable in a control panel: You make your input area smaller, and the apps aren't written to take advantage of the extra space. Now you have wasted space. Make it bigger, and apps won't fit.
Basically, there is much to be said for having no control over something. If every developer changed your keyboard map to match their prefs, it would be a nightmare. This is a very similar issue.
The only reason I could see in creating a virtual input area is to be able to display information inside of it, like maybe a clock or the date, but, you must keep it the same size. Configurability creates confusion for most users, so you should keep configuration options down to a minimum.
caffiene is far from a benign drug, and anyone telling you different is probably funded by the cola companies, much like nicotine is not harmful. Caffiene causes huge problems: fatigue, concentration problems, high blood pressure, loss of appetite, and it's a diuretic.
For people who claim that it "does nothing" to them, are either liars, are physically addicted to the substance, or are trying to bill themselves as some sort of "superhuman", where the rules don't apply to them. If you start to pay attention more to your body's chemistry, and how you feel after comsuming certain kinds of foods, you will quickly realize that caffiene does quite a lot to you.
The difference is that "real" handwriting recognition requires a LOT more processing power than grafitti does. Putting a processor that could handle that task would increase the price by at least $100, and would provide a very small return. Grafitti takes about 15 mniutes to learn. If you need to enter large amounts of data, you use a keyboard on your PC, then sync it in.
I admit I've never tried JOT or the other replacements for grafitti, but this is probably because I am perfectly content with grafitti, and don't see any need to change. You're not going to be much faster than grafitti than any other form of handwriting. How fast can you write on a peice of paper as compared to typing?
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Gone are the days where people plan for the very small chance a machine has no sound. In 1992, maybe you could expect such a thing - but it's now 2002. If you don't have sound set up, you can't expect anyone to code for that. It's almost like saying that you don't like to run in graphics mode, then getting annoyed that a GUI program doesn't work.
Any machine without sound or even with it disabled is in the very small minority. You've made that choice, and it's not everyone else's responsibility to work around that.
No. Coffee actually tastes good, while smoking has no other point than nicotine (and making you look cool).
Many people for medical or other reasons cannot have caffeine at all. Other choose not to, because there are some really detrimental effects to drinking it.
Yeah, no kidding. When I read stuff from all these caffeinated kids it makes me cringe. It's exactly the "I need X more cups of coffee in the morning than you" type pissing contest that gets me the most.
Congratulations, you are all addicts.
At least we can be comforted in the fact that caffeine lowers your sperm count. That, coupled with the very low likelyhood that most people here even have girlfriends, says some good things about what the gene pool will look like in 20 years.
Who gives a crap. There's tons of "new tech" being developed every day.
Let me know when I can buy it in the store. Other than that, it's all the same talk talk talk...
Who do you think operates the lines that let you connect via the Internet to other computers? The phone company of course.
No. It's not unreasonable to ask for a "spoiler warning" and it's EXTREMELY UNREASONABLE to put the spoiler IN THE FUCKING HEADLINE!!!
SO DELETE THE FUCKING POST ALREADY!!!!
This shouldn't exist in the news archives or anywhere. Even if it will fall off the bottom of the page *eventually*, It'll still going to be on the "older news" pages for days!
DELETE THE FUCKING POST!!!
Oh, and if you delete it, any record of your fuck-up sill disappear.
Yes, positive. It is always recording.
The buffer is the 30 minutes of past "live" programming that you can watch. This buffer lives on the disk.
The small delay is caused by the compression/write to HD/decompression that is done to allow you to have the 30 minute buffer.
You can always file an ammendment for past years, and get anything back that you were owed (or possibly have to pay more)
Another option might be to work a deal with the company you work for, and license them the code or reseller rights or whatever.
Depending on how they set things up, it probably won't affect most things that are deemed "what normal people should do". ICQ and AIM will work fine, except generally for file transfers. You might also have trouble with voice-IP apps. Other than that, there are answers to most of the arguments that can be made, mostly, "you should be using university managed machines for that."
What it will do is shut down most of the pirates, which is probably why their doing it, and napster.
Most universities pay discounted rates for their net connections, but some of the stipulations are that it only be used for educational purposes, and maybe a bandwidth limit. Lots of incoming traffic to the student net most likely means stuff is going on that shouldn't be.
Probably your only real argument will be simply that in a university environment, you shouldn't restrict stuff because of free expression, blah blah blah... oh, and "once you do this, where does it end?"
The only problem with bluetooth is that some tech writer got wind of it long before it was ready, and started telling everyone about it. It's developing very well, and there is a new version of the spec (1.1) on its way RSN. Most developers are waiting for that release.
Just think about the technology, even if it doesn't blow the doors off everything like everyone says it will, it's still very useful and will be picked up in the right applications. It might need the right application to really get going (look at IrDA and Palm pilots), but it'll be really cool.
The really optimal colors are black text on a wheat background. It's not as bright at white, and still has a very good contrast to it.
I'll also bet your eyes were younger when you were on monochrome displays :)
I would say that 1 year would be the limit though, anything longer and the scale is tipped towards the company.
Redhat has a history of doing things like this. In some earlier versions, they decided to include development versions of Perl. This really messed up everyone doing Perl support, and, of course, screwed up everyone who was using it.
One thing I've heard many times is that an overseas company will give a very lowball time estimate, like say, 40 hours, when the project will really take 80 hours. Then, when the workers don't meet the timeline, they take it as a personal failure, and work double time. That's not good for quality.
This is a symptom of caffeine addiction. Inability to concentrate, anxiety, etc.. Also, cut down of sugar. Sugar affects your brain, making it harder to concentrate on mathematical types of problems (like programming). Stop drinking soda and start drinking water.
Privacy is a farce, and it's never been garunteed by the constitution as a basic human right. Get over it, and move on.
Last I checked, paper wasn't made out of silicon.
yeah, so disable fastfind!
Sounds good, but if we were all engulfed in powerful electric fields, we'd all probably have cancer by now.
On the surface, this seems like a good idea. But, if you think about it a little more, it's a really really bad idea.
Consider: Your device has a virtual input area. That area could presumably be controlled by the developer of the application you are using. They decide they need a little more screen space, and shrink it down, only, now you can't use your device for input, because you were used to the size and location it was at before. Do you really want to trust a developer with this important function? (face it, someone who knows how to make cool code usually doesn't realize that they don't know anything about interface design)
Ok, make it unchangeable by app developers, and only configurable in a control panel: You make your input area smaller, and the apps aren't written to take advantage of the extra space. Now you have wasted space. Make it bigger, and apps won't fit.
Basically, there is much to be said for having no control over something. If every developer changed your keyboard map to match their prefs, it would be a nightmare. This is a very similar issue.
The only reason I could see in creating a virtual input area is to be able to display information inside of it, like maybe a clock or the date, but, you must keep it the same size. Configurability creates confusion for most users, so you should keep configuration options down to a minimum.
caffiene is far from a benign drug, and anyone telling you different is probably funded by the cola companies, much like nicotine is not harmful. Caffiene causes huge problems: fatigue, concentration problems, high blood pressure, loss of appetite, and it's a diuretic.
For people who claim that it "does nothing" to them, are either liars, are physically addicted to the substance, or are trying to bill themselves as some sort of "superhuman", where the rules don't apply to them. If you start to pay attention more to your body's chemistry, and how you feel after comsuming certain kinds of foods, you will quickly realize that caffiene does quite a lot to you.
This is not a Sun product, it's Veritas. Veritas makes products that run on Solaris. This would be a product by Veritas, for Solaris.
The difference is that "real" handwriting recognition requires a LOT more processing power than grafitti does. Putting a processor that could handle that task would increase the price by at least $100, and would provide a very small return. Grafitti takes about 15 mniutes to learn. If you need to enter large amounts of data, you use a keyboard on your PC, then sync it in.
I admit I've never tried JOT or the other replacements for grafitti, but this is probably because I am perfectly content with grafitti, and don't see any need to change. You're not going to be much faster than grafitti than any other form of handwriting. How fast can you write on a peice of paper as compared to typing?