Actually, you're not making it up. My 2004 Solara has a Panasonic-built CD player:)
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But they weren't first to market with a portable mp3 player!
There was a product called the Mp3Man put out by a South Korean company named Saehan. I worked for the US distributor of said product. I still have it in a box somewhere.
My Samsung TS360 (DirecTV) does the same thing if it's on a channel requiring HDCP and my TV is off or on a different input. When I switch back to the DVI input on the TV, I see white noise and a message about the copy protected content.
Change the channel on the receiver and everything comes back.
TV is a Samsung HLN567W - you'd think the Samsung TV and Samsung receiver would work together well.
InfoPath works *great* but since I can't embed it in a browser window, all of my users end up with an additional login box, and lots more buttons on their screen than they need. It's made training people to use my forms driven app more difficult, and they find the extra login box to be irritating.
(Before someone comments about the login prompt: The login box occurs because InfoPath launches in a different process, so the session / auth cookie is no longer present)
I would have loved to use Mozilla XForms, but it's just not ready yet, and InfoPath was when I needed it (last year)...
I have to disagree with you - as a developer who uses Windows as his primary OS at work, I live on the command line.
I may not write apps that are friendly to the command line, but this will certainly help improve build scripts, automated processing, and my general development.
It is a little verbose, but that will make it more user friendly. Let's face it, bash and the UNIX commands are amazingly powerful, but they're NOT intuitive.
I *used* to agree with you, but I've changed my mind over the years... I have two 10 gauge hoop earrings (yes, I'm a guy) and when I interviewed for my current job (think large antivirus company) I told my partner that I refused to take them out.
At this point, I've been wearing the earrings for over 10 years - they're a part of me, and I refuse to work anywhere that would expect me to take them out.
I had one job where they decided to change the dress code after I had been there for two years. The head of HR told me to take my earrings out, and I asked her if women were allowed to wear them. She pointed at her ears and said, "Of course!" My response was simple: "Well, that's discrimination, and we can't have that, can we?" I turned and walked out. They promptly amended the dress code and that was the last I've heard anything negative. That was six years ago.
The bottom line: Do you really want to spend 40+ hours a week around people can't take you for who you are?
The site in Springfield, Oregon is customer service. As a matter of fact, Symantec is the largest employer in the cities of Eugene and Springfield. It's also one of Symantec's largest facilities. I've been there multiple times, and I used to work on the SAVCE product, dealing with customer service and tech support in Springfield.
They also did this with Exchange 2000, which was an absolute disaster.
I remember not being able to receive email from the guy I shared an office with for over a week because he was on a different Exchange server in Redmond than I was!
The idea behind "eating your own dogfood" is great, but it doesn't always work for mission-critical, production systems.
If the Motorola Razr is any indication, you can't get insurance through Cingular. My boss told me that Lockline refused to insure his Razr when he bought it.
The Advocate also publishes a list of the top ten companies to work for every year. Here's the list for 2000 (The 2004 list doesn't seem to be archived on their site):
I finally bit the bullet and order a DP 2.5 G5 this week, and I've been reading through developer.apple.com, but, does anyone have any good books to reccommend for learning OS X development for an old Windows developer and not-as-seasoned Linux developer?
I was a member of the famed wireless division, who was all laid off because we didn't make the company any money. This was after Jain et al took the company for a ride and nearly got us delisted. I disliked senior management, but my peers at the company were some of the best people I've ever known or worked with, and I still miss that environment.
Whenever Naveen or Anu (his wife) would get infront of the company and speak, I instantly felt slimy. I got the worst vibes from the man. He honestly thinks he's a fantastic person and was the best thing to ever happen for the company and anyone involved. I hope they have fun explaining to their children how they robbed their trust funds in their insider trading scandal.
Shortly after my last day in December 2003, the entire executive board was replaced. Now InfoSpace is posting good numbers and wireless makes money.
That's where you're wrong not only for the OBVIOUS reason "if you fork a GPL software it must remain GPL" (and I just downloaded the installer and afaik the code IS NOT distributed along)
That, in and of itself, does not infringe on the GPL. The source code does not have to be distributed with the binary, but it has to be made available upon request. That's my understanding, anyhow.
I'm not defending the "author" of CherryOS - he's clearly in the wrong. I think you should understand the GPL more clearly before you rip on someone about it.
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Actually, you're not making it up. My 2004 Solara has a Panasonic-built CD player :)
But they weren't first to market with a portable mp3 player!
There was a product called the Mp3Man put out by a South Korean company named Saehan. I worked for the US distributor of said product. I still have it in a box somewhere.
So much for using my mod points.
I have a Braun 7000-series Synchro razor. It looks pretty damned sealed to me. I'm not going to go suing Braun when the battery dies.
My laptop's battery *is* user replaceable (Dell Inspiron 4150), for $120. I think the $50 iPod battery replacement isn't THAT bad, in the long run.
Check out http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc /data/w32.zotob.d.html to see exactly what this is attempting to do.
As much as I hate to say this, this sounds strangely like what InfoSpace's custom-made server farm and web server software does.
And it was doing that before the file date on this patent.
I just searched the USPTO database and, unfortunately, they never filed a similiar patent. Oops.
Anyhow, more proof that the patent system is flawed.
My Samsung TS360 (DirecTV) does the same thing if it's on a channel requiring HDCP and my TV is off or on a different input. When I switch back to the DVI input on the TV, I see white noise and a message about the copy protected content.
Change the channel on the receiver and everything comes back.
TV is a Samsung HLN567W - you'd think the Samsung TV and Samsung receiver would work together well.
... IT'S ABOUT DAMNED TIME!
InfoPath works *great* but since I can't embed it in a browser window, all of my users end up with an additional login box, and lots more buttons on their screen than they need. It's made training people to use my forms driven app more difficult, and they find the extra login box to be irritating.
(Before someone comments about the login prompt: The login box occurs because InfoPath launches in a different process, so the session / auth cookie is no longer present)
I would have loved to use Mozilla XForms, but it's just not ready yet, and InfoPath was when I needed it (last year)...
I'm doing all of what you referred to using Subversion with the mod_dav_svn frontend on Apache for a content management system.
It works *beautifully*
If you're a newbie, there's nothing intuitive about:
grep
awk
sed
ln
mv
ls
Shall I continue? I get to field questions from coworkers about what UNIX command does what all the time.
I have to disagree with you - as a developer who uses Windows as his primary OS at work, I live on the command line.
I may not write apps that are friendly to the command line, but this will certainly help improve build scripts, automated processing, and my general development.
It is a little verbose, but that will make it more user friendly. Let's face it, bash and the UNIX commands are amazingly powerful, but they're NOT intuitive.
I *used* to agree with you, but I've changed my mind over the years... I have two 10 gauge hoop earrings (yes, I'm a guy) and when I interviewed for my current job (think large antivirus company) I told my partner that I refused to take them out.
At this point, I've been wearing the earrings for over 10 years - they're a part of me, and I refuse to work anywhere that would expect me to take them out.
I had one job where they decided to change the dress code after I had been there for two years. The head of HR told me to take my earrings out, and I asked her if women were allowed to wear them. She pointed at her ears and said, "Of course!" My response was simple: "Well, that's discrimination, and we can't have that, can we?" I turned and walked out. They promptly amended the dress code and that was the last I've heard anything negative. That was six years ago.
The bottom line: Do you really want to spend 40+ hours a week around people can't take you for who you are?
Maybe authentication via RADIUS to validate the passcode?
Granted, it would require a custom RADIUS server.
The site in Springfield, Oregon is customer service. As a matter of fact, Symantec is the largest employer in the cities of Eugene and Springfield. It's also one of Symantec's largest facilities. I've been there multiple times, and I used to work on the SAVCE product, dealing with customer service and tech support in Springfield.
I hate to tell you, but your "facts" are incorrect. Customer service is not in India.
http://www.symantec.com/corporate/
Take a look at the bottom of the page where customer service centers are located.
And yes, I DO work there.
They also did this with Exchange 2000, which was an absolute disaster.
I remember not being able to receive email from the guy I shared an office with for over a week because he was on a different Exchange server in Redmond than I was!
The idea behind "eating your own dogfood" is great, but it doesn't always work for mission-critical, production systems.
Sounds great until you see the price tag - it's nearly $800!
3 .phones.reut/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/ptech/04/27/nokia.mp
If the Motorola Razr is any indication, you can't get insurance through Cingular. My boss told me that Lockline refused to insure his Razr when he bought it.
Screw that!
I know you're actually trolling, but to those who care about other great companies for gay and lesbian employees, here's a good link:
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http://www.businessreform.com/article.php?article
The Advocate also publishes a list of the top ten companies to work for every year. Here's the list for 2000 (The 2004 list doesn't seem to be archived on their site):
http://web.archive.org/web/20040215174655/http://
The HRC (The Human Rights Campaign) also maintains such a list, the annual State of the Workplace:
http://www.hrc.org/Content/ContentGroups/Publicat
and the Corporate Equality Index:
http://www.hrc.org/Content/ContentGroups/Publicat
If you don't like the subject matter, don't read further into it, but some people around here might actually be interested.
If it's like the last Acrobat, it's staticly linked, therefore it's bigger and works on all Linux x86 distros....
There's a price to be had for compatability.
Yes, but it's still Dayton. ewww. :) Atleast do it in Columbus so you have somewhere to party.
I finally bit the bullet and order a DP 2.5 G5 this week, and I've been reading through developer.apple.com, but, does anyone have any good books to reccommend for learning OS X development for an old Windows developer and not-as-seasoned Linux developer?
Well, you *were* modded to a 5, but some idiot moderator dropped you down, and I'm fresh out of mod points.
I just wanted to say that I wish the rest of the idiots out there had a clue like you do.
PS: I'm a gay man who's tired of the "activist judges" schtick too.
Not to mention his *FABULOUS* fur coat he wore to the office.
That man looked like a walking fashion train wreck...
Oh, and the boat, etc, etc, etc...
I'm a (bitter) former InfoSpace employee.
I was a member of the famed wireless division, who was all laid off because we didn't make the company any money. This was after Jain et al took the company for a ride and nearly got us delisted. I disliked senior management, but my peers at the company were some of the best people I've ever known or worked with, and I still miss that environment.
Whenever Naveen or Anu (his wife) would get infront of the company and speak, I instantly felt slimy. I got the worst vibes from the man. He honestly thinks he's a fantastic person and was the best thing to ever happen for the company and anyone involved. I hope they have fun explaining to their children how they robbed their trust funds in their insider trading scandal.
Shortly after my last day in December 2003, the entire executive board was replaced. Now InfoSpace is posting good numbers and wireless makes money.
Coincidence? I think not.
Where do you live? Circuit City, BestBuy and CompUSA all sell Athlon powered notebooks.
HP makes a few Pavillion models with Athlon processors.
That's where you're wrong not only for the OBVIOUS reason "if you fork a GPL software it must remain GPL" (and I just downloaded the installer and afaik the code IS NOT distributed along)
That, in and of itself, does not infringe on the GPL. The source code does not have to be distributed with the binary, but it has to be made available upon request. That's my understanding, anyhow.
I'm not defending the "author" of CherryOS - he's clearly in the wrong. I think you should understand the GPL more clearly before you rip on someone about it.