Depending on what you're doing on holiday, you might also want to consider getting a tripod. If you're using zoom for nature shots (ahem) digital cameras seem to handle camera shake pretty badly.
The prayers probably did make a difference - first of all to the people doing the praying. It gave them comfort because, in a situation where they have no control, they thought they were doing some good. This in turn might help them relax. If the patient also shares the same beliefs as the ones praying for him / her, then he / she may also feel some good is being done, and may feel more relaxed as a result. Finally, if the patient and those around him / her are more relaxed, this may have a beneficial, psychosomatic effect on the illness, especially if the problem was stress related.
I honestly don't believe anyone is listening, but sometimes the good that prayer does has nothing to do with the existence of God. How else can you explain the huge number of 'miracles' that happen at Loudres in France?
5. Run your presentation past one of the senior managers that will be in the meeting. This has two huge benefits, namely (a) they will be able to help you tailor your presentation for suitability and relevance (b) you will have someone on-side within the meeting room who can back up your position there and then, and once you've left the room.
(b) can also be used to deflate the 'us and them' mentality, e.g. "as I was saying to Bob just the other day...". If those present think that one of their own has as intimate understanding of the issues they'll be more keen to understand and resolve the problem with them.
So does that mean iTunes will support WMA? I doubt it.
*If* Apple go down this path, I would expect iTunes / iPod to try and ween the user off WMA and onto AAC.
Does it mean the iPod or iTunes will be able to play the particular flavor of DRM used in online music stores using WMA? I rather doubt that too. So what exactly does this get anyone?
There are people who have only been introduced to encoded music through using XP and haven't been aware of the issues relating to DRM. They may well have allowed their CDs to be encoded in the WMA format because they didn't know better. These people would otherwise not know about the benefits of Apple's product line.
Its worth noting that Apple don't just get potential iPod / iTunes sales out of providing WMA support. They also expose PC users to the beauty of Apple user interfaces. This in turn may influence their choice of computer when replacing their current one. How can this value be calculated? I have no idea, but I imagine Apple will have made some projections and fed these results into any choice to extend iTunes to allow WMA files. You can bet that Apple's marketing plan extends well beyond the life of your current PC.
And who would want to use WMA in iTunes or on your iPod, unless you were at least going to be able to play a competitor music store's goods.
The people who already have WMA files on their computer, have seen iTunes on their friend's / colleague's PC, or someone else iPod, and want the same thing. I guess there is nothing stopping the user from buying a WMA file from another store and playing it on iTunes / i Pod, once WMA is allowed.
Apart from the aforemention benefits, Apple actually have very little to lose. User thinks about buying Mac next time - check. User buys iPod - maybe. User buys on-line content from iTunes - check. Any future sales lost as a result? - nope.
The sad reality isn't so much that you'll get to the final stages of your job application and then not be offered the job because of your past employer's practices. Rather the issue is that you wouldn't make the cut for interviews in the first place. With so many people applying for IT jobs these days, the first stage for the employer is sifting through the resumes actively searching for *any* reason why the applicants might not make the grade. This could be as spurious a reason as the resume being a page too long, or not liking the previous employer - anything to reduce the pile of resumes to a quantity that you've got time to consider seriously.
Plus there is always the possibility that the agency wouldn't forward the resume to the prospective employer in the first place, to avoid the possible accusation that the agency is handling candidates of dubious ethics.
The reason most project managers don't do this is because they have the title "manager".
Managers managing things? Whatever next?
They feel they're supposed to manage.
Correct. They are. Get over it.
Unfortunately, they try to manage the programmer, not the project.
OK, I give up - who is this "they" you speak of? Not all project managers try to "manage programmers". Neither do they all have an elevated sense of their own value. Collaboration doesn't start and finish in the programming domain, and a mutually respectful relationship has benefits that go far beyond writing good code. Any *good* project manager knows that.
Programmers wouldn't get very far if they had to manage clients, accounts, gather functional requirements and deal with internal and external politics. Likewise a project manager wouldn't get very far without someone to design and build the system. It has to be a team effort, and if it isn't where you work then maybe you should look for work elsewhere...?
I'm assuming you don't want to use a regular weblog, and want to keep your regular website updated. In which case read on.
Most towns in Australia have internet cafes / services, even in the outback (sometimes in the local library), and most allow command line ftp, which I found was the quickest way of maintaining my web site on the road without uploading special software. So far as uploading photos is concerned, I used a digital camera that gave me two options (i) hope that the internet cafe has a computer running windows XP, which can usually handle a direct upload from the digital camera without additional software, or (ii) cut the photos to a CD in a photo shop (this service is available in even small towns) and get the photos from the CD before uploading them via command line FTP.
If you're not using a digital camera, you can use the same photo labs to copy your photos to CD as well as film when you get them exposed.
The power problem is a different matter altogether. My digital camera (Canon Ixus II) has a great battery which lasted for 2-3 days depending on usage (usually pretty heavy usage), and I was staying in hostels and campsites, both of which had power points I could use to recharge. So it really wasn't a problem as I'd bought the charger with me.
Enjoy Australia - great country!!
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Nah, they won't float....
Depending on what you're doing on holiday, you might also want to consider getting a tripod. If you're using zoom for nature shots (ahem) digital cameras seem to handle camera shake pretty badly.
I've had problems accessing texturizer.net for weeks - doesn't look like the problems are related to the recent release of Firefox.
I honestly don't believe anyone is listening, but sometimes the good that prayer does has nothing to do with the existence of God. How else can you explain the huge number of 'miracles' that happen at Loudres in France?
(Phil braces himself....)
5. Run your presentation past one of the senior managers that will be in the meeting. This has two huge benefits, namely (a) they will be able to help you tailor your presentation for suitability and relevance (b) you will have someone on-side within the meeting room who can back up your position there and then, and once you've left the room.
(b) can also be used to deflate the 'us and them' mentality, e.g. "as I was saying to Bob just the other day...". If those present think that one of their own has as intimate understanding of the issues they'll be more keen to understand and resolve the problem with them.
Possibly unreliable sources are here, here and here. The public vote for who should play David Brent, as seen on the SMH page, is kinda interesting.
*If* Apple go down this path, I would expect iTunes / iPod to try and ween the user off WMA and onto AAC.
Does it mean the iPod or iTunes will be able to play the particular flavor of DRM used in online music stores using WMA? I rather doubt that too. So what exactly does this get anyone?
There are people who have only been introduced to encoded music through using XP and haven't been aware of the issues relating to DRM. They may well have allowed their CDs to be encoded in the WMA format because they didn't know better. These people would otherwise not know about the benefits of Apple's product line.
Its worth noting that Apple don't just get potential iPod / iTunes sales out of providing WMA support. They also expose PC users to the beauty of Apple user interfaces. This in turn may influence their choice of computer when replacing their current one. How can this value be calculated? I have no idea, but I imagine Apple will have made some projections and fed these results into any choice to extend iTunes to allow WMA files. You can bet that Apple's marketing plan extends well beyond the life of your current PC.
And who would want to use WMA in iTunes or on your iPod, unless you were at least going to be able to play a competitor music store's goods.
The people who already have WMA files on their computer, have seen iTunes on their friend's / colleague's PC, or someone else iPod, and want the same thing. I guess there is nothing stopping the user from buying a WMA file from another store and playing it on iTunes / i Pod, once WMA is allowed.
Apart from the aforemention benefits, Apple actually have very little to lose. User thinks about buying Mac next time - check. User buys iPod - maybe. User buys on-line content from iTunes - check. Any future sales lost as a result? - nope.
Plus there is always the possibility that the agency wouldn't forward the resume to the prospective employer in the first place, to avoid the possible accusation that the agency is handling candidates of dubious ethics.
....now that would be cool....
Managers managing things? Whatever next?
They feel they're supposed to manage.
Correct. They are. Get over it.
Unfortunately, they try to manage the programmer, not the project.
OK, I give up - who is this "they" you speak of? Not all project managers try to "manage programmers". Neither do they all have an elevated sense of their own value. Collaboration doesn't start and finish in the programming domain, and a mutually respectful relationship has benefits that go far beyond writing good code. Any *good* project manager knows that.
Programmers wouldn't get very far if they had to manage clients, accounts, gather functional requirements and deal with internal and external politics. Likewise a project manager wouldn't get very far without someone to design and build the system. It has to be a team effort, and if it isn't where you work then maybe you should look for work elsewhere...?
The words rhyme, so it must be true...
I'm assuming you don't want to use a regular weblog, and want to keep your regular website updated. In which case read on. Most towns in Australia have internet cafes / services, even in the outback (sometimes in the local library), and most allow command line ftp, which I found was the quickest way of maintaining my web site on the road without uploading special software. So far as uploading photos is concerned, I used a digital camera that gave me two options (i) hope that the internet cafe has a computer running windows XP, which can usually handle a direct upload from the digital camera without additional software, or (ii) cut the photos to a CD in a photo shop (this service is available in even small towns) and get the photos from the CD before uploading them via command line FTP. If you're not using a digital camera, you can use the same photo labs to copy your photos to CD as well as film when you get them exposed. The power problem is a different matter altogether. My digital camera (Canon Ixus II) has a great battery which lasted for 2-3 days depending on usage (usually pretty heavy usage), and I was staying in hostels and campsites, both of which had power points I could use to recharge. So it really wasn't a problem as I'd bought the charger with me. Enjoy Australia - great country!!