I have some sort of arthritis, so I am not able to play with the full barretto. But I learned that it's not even necessary, most of the time! For the F chord, you just use the tip of your index to depress the first two strings, instead of the barretto, and avoid plucking the last string.
While I agree with the general point you make, I'd like to point out that the books us techies use (and I don't mean only programming or computer science, but also electronic engineering) don't really need to last a couple decades. This kind of content is obsolete after about 10 years at the latest.
I suspect thst 20 years from now, the only books that will still be on my shelves are physics, electromagnetism, electrical engineering, math and chemistry.
Except that the "Was this review useful?" voting option never works like that, in practice. What happens is that people vote down negative reviews of products they like, and vote up the positive ones. It has nothing to do whether the review is factual and sheds light on some negative aspects of the product that would be indeed good to know.
So it would be with the professor reviews: if a professor that is popular with most students, gets a negative review from an unlucky student that got in the crosshairs of a professor, his review will be voted "unuseful" while it will actually be very useful, because it would shed light on a "wolf in the guise of a sheep". It's no so useful writing a negative review of a prof that everybody knows is a skunk. However, that review will be voted overwhealmingly "useful", even though it's not.
That's one of the reasons I don't give any credit to the "Was this review useful" voting on Amazon. It means squat. I rather read the reviews regardless of how many positive or negative votes they got.
So I decided to post. I think you'll like the story, though: I work for a large and very famous company (you all used our products, one time or the other in your lives) and a couple of years ago some bright manager decided it's safe to outsource most of the dev work on a certain product to this Indian company whose name begins with W. Apart from very varying degree of quality (they were supposed to have UNIX expertise, that's why they were chose. Not much of it, there, though). The most comical episode must have been when they created a distribution media for our product and it shipped to a few customers. The media contained the whole source tree for our product! Just a little screwup, except that we're not an opensource company, and that product certainly wasn't.
Luckily for them, our managers took in in their stride, but under the laughs they were furious.
Here in Finland, and in other contries in Europe (don't know if all, but at least in the ones where I lived) the gov't is the one who assigns domains. THAT SUCKS because only if you are a company/corporation can get a.fi domain.
So, normal folks do not have the option to get a.fi domain for whatever the teck they want it. Want to put your software or hardware projects online? Want to make a family website? A club website? In Finland you can't!
So you see, this system is much more biased against the citizen and in favor of corporations.
So, what I did was, I found a cheap registrar in the US (godaddy.com seems to be rock bottom cheapest) and registered my own.com domain.
Yeah, my money went to the US, because the fscking government wants to keep control of.fi. Well, just go ahead and control it.
Review kinda useless, KDE 3.2 kinda excellent
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The review really doesn't make justice to KDE 3.2.
That said, probably no review could bring across how exactly KDE 3.2 feels. Screenshots mean nearly nothing. Textual descriptions mean very little. Only a hands-on triout will do.
The good news is: KDE 3.2 is free, and you all know that the best stuff in life is free;o) KDE 3.2 is a download away.
Although I don't see the guy too often, I believe you're right.
And I also would agree, thinking about it, that the choice of fonts on paper is probably a different business tahn for displays. Not only the higher resoution of the print, but the fact that it's a totally different kind of illumination.
OK, so I did not missunderstand what you said. I admit to ignorance of the study you cite.
The condition I mentioned has the practical effect similar to myopia (shortsightedness), with a particular direction/polarization; you could say that the horizontal resolution is much more degraded than the vertical. That is, I can count rows easier than I can count the columns. Also, my sight is strongly dependant on whether I am tired.
OK, so, you're saying serifed fonts are easier to read for the general public. That's interesting. I have to say, I talked once with a fontographer that works for Nokia, and he told me something to the effect that is the opposite of that affirmation. At least, I was lead to believe that Verdana is easier to read for the general population, too.
I may be missunderstanding you, but are you saying that fonts with serifs are easier on the eyes? Well, not for my eyes, I guarantee you that. Serifs are just confusing and reduce the readability. And I guess this is the case with all other people with nystagmus horisontalis, which is by far the most common type.
(and before I get trolled: no, I can't correct it with glasses)
I have had problems reading small font text for at least 10 years now, and the problem is, of course, getting worse. But I have learned a lot, about the needs of visually impaired people. One of these things is that Verdana is probably the ideal font for us. This fact was discussed in depth on the nystagmus newsgroup, and the good thing is, we all reached a consensus about Verdana.
I am surprised so few companies use it. Actually, none as far as I know. I am surprised mostly because I believe that a nice, readable font is pleasant even for the healthy eye, it's more ergonomic.
My brain, like any normal supercomputer, functions best at low temperature. Best excuse EVER for not wanting to go to hot countries! Hah! I'll steal this line from you, thanks.
He was wrong about New Zealand being hard to enter/settle, but he was right on the money about the lack of reciprocity. I object to your poo-poointg his whole post on just the New Zealand issue.
Are Electrical Engineers having any similar problems with jobs being outsourced?
Not similar, exactly the same problems. Here in Finland, the percentage of EE jobs outsourced to India and China is the same percent as the jobs in IT.
If you like EE, study EE. Do it because you like it, not because it's easier or harder to find a job. One day you'l understand what I mean, whether you follow my advice or you don't.
..is the parformance of the Opteron. Looks like Linux 2.6.x and Opteron are a great combo. Okay, I admit, I was a bit skeptical regarding Linux 2.6, but it seems it might actually deliver.
I'm looking forward for Solaris + Opteron servers. Should be another interesting combo, performance wise. For one, Solaris 9 has some fantastic scheduling for multiprocessor machines. Additionally, it has been implemented in 64 bit for many years.
I am not a Mormon, but even I know that what you wrote is false. Mormons are taught to be law-abiding citizens, to honor and obey the law of the country they live in. In other words, they are plain decent folks with whom I would have no problem to be identified with.
No, it's actually a very popular opinion on/. Lindows has been the target of many flames here, who knows for what reason. At the same time, RedHat has always been praised. Uncritically.
If I came to your house, kicked you out into the dog-house, and then offered you a "peace treaty" to let you keep the dog-house, would you walk away smiling at your great success at the negotiating table?
However, the palestinian arabs were not kicked out. They left their homes voluntarily, thinking it would be just a temporary move, so to allow the arab coalition to bomb the jews into smithereens, and then move back. Even many pasestinian arabs have documented these events from 1948 and explicitly said that their leaders asked them to leave their homes and allow the arab armies and cannons a free playing ground.
This tactic miserably misfired, as the jews held, against incredible odds.
You either didn't read carefully the post you wee answering to, or you didn't understand it: the poster clearly stated that Indian workers can get a work permit/visa/wathagonnacallit to work in USA. He didn't say it's easy (or hard), but that it's possible.
In contrast, he declares that American's can't get such permit if they wanted to work in India.
Whether those statements are true or false, I don't know, but I know you have not replied to them, i.e. you missed the point.
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I have some sort of arthritis, so I am not able to play with the full barretto. But I learned that it's not even necessary, most of the time! For the F chord, you just use the tip of your index to depress the first two strings, instead of the barretto, and avoid plucking the last string.
It's pretty clear that MS has been dragging it's feet to accoodate Intel. I believe this to be illeal. Would AMD sue MS over this?
While I agree with the general point you make, I'd like to point out that the books us techies use (and I don't mean only programming or computer science, but also electronic engineering) don't really need to last a couple decades. This kind of content is obsolete after about 10 years at the latest.
I suspect thst 20 years from now, the only books that will still be on my shelves are physics, electromagnetism, electrical engineering, math and chemistry.
Except that the "Was this review useful?" voting option never works like that, in practice. What happens is that people vote down negative reviews of products they like, and vote up the positive ones. It has nothing to do whether the review is factual and sheds light on some negative aspects of the product that would be indeed good to know.
So it would be with the professor reviews: if a professor that is popular with most students, gets a negative review from an unlucky student that got in the crosshairs of a professor, his review will be voted "unuseful" while it will actually be very useful, because it would shed light on a "wolf in the guise of a sheep". It's no so useful writing a negative review of a prof that everybody knows is a skunk. However, that review will be voted overwhealmingly "useful", even though it's not.
That's one of the reasons I don't give any credit to the "Was this review useful" voting on Amazon. It means squat. I rather read the reviews regardless of how many positive or negative votes they got.
So I decided to post. I think you'll like the story, though: I work for a large and very famous company (you all used our products, one time or the other in your lives) and a couple of years ago some bright manager decided it's safe to outsource most of the dev work on a certain product to this Indian company whose name begins with W. Apart from very varying degree of quality (they were supposed to have UNIX expertise, that's why they were chose. Not much of it, there, though). The most comical episode must have been when they created a distribution media for our product and it shipped to a few customers. The media contained the whole source tree for our product! Just a little screwup, except that we're not an opensource company, and that product certainly wasn't.
Luckily for them, our managers took in in their stride, but under the laughs they were furious.
Here in Finland, and in other contries in Europe (don't know if all, but at least in the ones where I lived) the gov't is the one who assigns domains. THAT SUCKS because only if you are a company/corporation can get a .fi domain.
.fi domain for whatever the teck they want it. Want to put your software or hardware projects online? Want to make a family website? A club website? In Finland you can't!
.com domain.
.fi. Well, just go ahead and control it.
So, normal folks do not have the option to get a
So you see, this system is much more biased against the citizen and in favor of corporations.
So, what I did was, I found a cheap registrar in the US (godaddy.com seems to be rock bottom cheapest) and registered my own
Yeah, my money went to the US, because the fscking government wants to keep control of
The review really doesn't make justice to KDE 3.2.
;o) KDE 3.2 is a download away.
That said, probably no review could bring across how exactly KDE 3.2 feels. Screenshots mean nearly nothing. Textual descriptions mean very little. Only a hands-on triout will do.
The good news is: KDE 3.2 is free, and you all know that the best stuff in life is free
I meant SOIC, not PLCC....
Small DIL? I don't see DIL in the same category as BGA. Like apples and elephants. Any chance you meant PLCC instead of "small DIL"?
Although I don't see the guy too often, I believe you're right.
And I also would agree, thinking about it, that the choice of fonts on paper is probably a different business tahn for displays. Not only the higher resoution of the print, but the fact that it's a totally different kind of illumination.
OK, so I did not missunderstand what you said. I admit to ignorance of the study you cite.
The condition I mentioned has the practical effect similar to myopia (shortsightedness), with a particular direction/polarization; you could say that the horizontal resolution is much more degraded than the vertical. That is, I can count rows easier than I can count the columns. Also, my sight is strongly dependant on whether I am tired.
OK, so, you're saying serifed fonts are easier to read for the general public. That's interesting. I have to say, I talked once with a fontographer that works for Nokia, and he told me something to the effect that is the opposite of that affirmation. At least, I was lead to believe that Verdana is easier to read for the general population, too.
I may be missunderstanding you, but are you saying that fonts with serifs are easier on the eyes? Well, not for my eyes, I guarantee you that. Serifs are just confusing and reduce the readability. And I guess this is the case with all other people with nystagmus horisontalis, which is by far the most common type.
(and before I get trolled: no, I can't correct it with glasses)
I have had problems reading small font text for at least 10 years now, and the problem is, of course, getting worse. But I have learned a lot, about the needs of visually impaired people. One of these things is that Verdana is probably the ideal font for us. This fact was discussed in depth on the nystagmus newsgroup, and the good thing is, we all reached a consensus about Verdana.
I am surprised so few companies use it. Actually, none as far as I know. I am surprised mostly because I believe that a nice, readable font is pleasant even for the healthy eye, it's more ergonomic.
My brain, like any normal supercomputer, functions best at low temperature.
Best excuse EVER for not wanting to go to hot countries! Hah! I'll steal this line from you, thanks.
He was wrong about New Zealand being hard to enter/settle, but he was right on the money about the lack of reciprocity. I object to your poo-poointg his whole post on just the New Zealand issue.
Are Electrical Engineers having any similar problems with jobs being outsourced?
Not similar, exactly the same problems. Here in Finland, the percentage of EE jobs outsourced to India and China is the same percent as the jobs in IT.
If you like EE, study EE. Do it because you like it, not because it's easier or harder to find a job. One day you'l understand what I mean, whether you follow my advice or you don't.
..is the parformance of the Opteron. Looks like Linux 2.6.x and Opteron are a great combo. Okay, I admit, I was a bit skeptical regarding Linux 2.6, but it seems it might actually deliver.
I'm looking forward for Solaris + Opteron servers. Should be another interesting combo, performance wise. For one, Solaris 9 has some fantastic scheduling for multiprocessor machines. Additionally, it has been implemented in 64 bit for many years.
Mormons are taught to support the Government.
I am not a Mormon, but even I know that what you wrote is false. Mormons are taught to be law-abiding citizens, to honor and obey the law of the country they live in. In other words, they are plain decent folks with whom I would have no problem to be identified with.
Then perhaps I am reading a different /. I am more and more convinced that /. is a Red Hat stronghold. Nothing bad about it, as long as it's clear.
No, it's actually a very popular opinion on /.
Lindows has been the target of many flames here, who knows for what reason. At the same time, RedHat has always been praised. Uncritically.
Even worse, no mathces for "plump", either!
ooops..
If I came to your house, kicked you out into the dog-house, and then offered you a "peace treaty" to let you keep the dog-house, would you walk away smiling at your great success at the negotiating table?
However, the palestinian arabs were not kicked out. They left their homes voluntarily, thinking it would be just a temporary move, so to allow the arab coalition to bomb the jews into smithereens, and then move back. Even many pasestinian arabs have documented these events from 1948 and explicitly said that their leaders asked them to leave their homes and allow the arab armies and cannons a free playing ground.
This tactic miserably misfired, as the jews held, against incredible odds.
So blowing up babies is OK? Just answer yes or no.
You either didn't read carefully the post you wee answering to, or you didn't understand it: the poster clearly stated that Indian workers can get a work permit/visa/wathagonnacallit to work in USA. He didn't say it's easy (or hard), but that it's possible.
In contrast, he declares that American's can't get such permit if they wanted to work in India.
Whether those statements are true or false, I don't know, but I know you have not replied to them, i.e. you missed the point.
No info on what make of flash, but likely Intel since they are the biggest.
As far as I know, the biggest in Flash RAM is AMD, with the Atmels and Winbonds coming distant second. And Intel is among them.