Don't make me use a real browser to click all the way through your site, make me agree to a stupid set of conditions for using the software, and then provide my browser with a cookie that it can subsequently use to download your software; when my browser is on one continent and the machine that wants the software is on another continent; you ass-fucks...
Nope. A degree gets you into HR. A network of friends who respect your abilities will get you past HR and get you into a job. HR is an obstacle course of policies, guidelines and resume' filters. I'm 44 and have never had to apply for a job with an HR department. I'm in my 6th career position; I don't have a degree and make good money. In the 3 cases where the place I worked shut down or moved out of town, I found myself re-employed or offers in hand within a week. In my current position, I'm a senior developer and between bouts of coding, I'm mentoring young smarty-pants masters degree wielding energetic youth... Some of them are little more than script kiddies, some are bright and will go far.. Looking at my limited data set over the years, no amount of degrees will wallpaper over an incompetent boob... The smart kids would rise anyway, regardless whether they had a degree or not.
My wife is doing my family history as well as hers... All of my history is in europe and most of hers is.. She's been able to find some helpful information through ancestry but in my opinion, not enough to justify the cost. Fortunately, the local public library has Ancestry.com accounts so if you go to the library and use their computers, you can camp on ancestry all day long... The librarian has to come over and log you in but one day the librarian was busy and recognized my wife, so wrote the username/password on a sticky note and handed it to my wife. My wife logged in with it and used it. Later that day she tried the username/password at home and it didn't work... Next time she went to the library, she brought her laptop and tried the username/password there and it worked... So they've got some sort of IP block or something associated with the library... So now she drags her laptop down there, uses Ancestry, print's info to PDF files and brings them home to print them out...
I don't like working from home but for a different reason. As a contractor, paid by the hour, I can get 8.5 hours worth of on-site work done in about 4 hours at home... If I'm on-site, I can bill for 8.5 hours. If I'm at home, I can bill for 4 hours. Since my employer (my customer, technically) would prefer I work on-site instead of shelling in remotely, I oblige them by coming in, dealing with distractions and beauracracy, in exchange for billing higher... They're still happy with the quantity of work that gets done and continue to pay me well and renew my contract, year after year.
yeah; not so much.. As you get older and gain more experience (while doing everything possible to prevent being moved into a management track), you value your privacy... During the work day, I have to deal with personal matters (calls from the boy's school, wife, accountant, etc) and having a cow-orker 3 feet away pretending not to listen is not optimal... In an open plan, people have to get up, transfer the call to some meeting room and take it there, while running across the office with paperwork or what have you. Then there's the little mental breaks you take throughout the day to let your mind stew on a hard problem; you don't want someone staring at your monitor from behind you... Don't get me wrong, my employer gets plenty of work out of me and they're very happy with my performance and my pay is commensurate with that assertion..
Currently, I have a cubicle somewhere in the building... I don't know where it is; I've never seen it. I assume it's like all the other cubicles in the building.. I work in a lab primarily because I need access to hardware and test equipment... The lab is somewhat open-plan but I have a private little corner that I've managed to arrange by moving benches around... It's noisy enough in the lab that I can keep from getting distracted by people milling about or make my phone calls without anyone listening in... I can focus for long periods when I need to and the restricted access to the lab prevents a lot of people from just wandering in for a visit...
When I need to communicate with my cow-orkers, we all use Jabber.. If you're focused, you can hide your jabber window and not be disturbed... I get to choose when distraction is permissible or unwanted.
No, it's still irritating because mythtv can flag the commercials for me but it can't flag repetitive inanity... Why can't the scene people who edit out commercials also edit out the fucking narrator? It is, at best, 18 minutes of television.
When the ipad first came out, this was my first thought... Either give Honda $1800 for the 'entertainment' option, or just buy each kid an ipad so they can watch whatever they want...
We still manage to keep our 9 yo sufficiently entertained or interested by talking, playing games, and looking out the window that we haven't felt the need to invest in any 'in-car video' gear... Our longest road trip has only been 8 hours though so who knows.
....and since 90% of car accidents happen within 2 miles of home, unless you live within 2 miles of the airport, you're statistically better off driving to your destination than flying as long as you can get over the 2 mile circle-of-death.:-)
wififofum - lets you scan for access points and generally finds more access points than the Apple wifi chooser lets you see (due to them falling below some RSSI threshold)... So sometimes the native wifi chooser will display 2 or 3 access points but wififofum will see a lot more and there's a greater chance that I can find and connect to an open one.
wifipass - dumps out the list of wifi passwords in your device. Handy for transferring them to a buddy or to your next phone.
synergyclient - So you can use your desktop mouse on your IOS device... Ok, this isn't a must-have feature but is pretty cool.
openssh client and server. So you can ssh into your device
inet-utils, unix-utils - so you can have 'top' and 'netstat' and 'ping' and whatever...
minicom - are you at the colo with a dead laptop? Pull out your iphone serial dongle.
That's all I can think of right now. I haven't explored extensively... But my phone is now more like a handheld computer than I need it to be.
You clearly have not tried to have a logical discussion with a 3 year old. You can not, absolutely not, explain why her teddy bear is disappearing into a strange machine and that it'll be the same when it gets out the other side...
rubbing blackberries together is for luddites... They have Lithium batteries.. Just short the batteries with a paperclip and stick them in the middle of the phonebook... I'll be warm and toasty while you're freezing your nads off....
That's exactly what happens in the canadian city where I live... We didn't receive white pages this year but we received 2 copies of the yellow pages plus 2 copies of the 'mini yellow pages' that they want you to put in your cars.
I cheated once, in high school. I was hacking Apple ][ when I was 10 so I developed the ability to type at 100+ WPM by the time I was 15. In high school, I made extra money by typing in papers for other students... Just typing, not creating content. One day I was running behind on a social studies paper and decided to re-use the same paper that I had typed up for a fellow student under a different teacher. In the end, my teacher ended up grading both papers and 'we' got caught. (At that point, the teacher didn't know who had plagiarized whom).. I fessed up, the other student got off free, I was threatened with suspension but it was clear by my reaction that this was not normal practice for me so the teacher gave me 2 days to do the paper again and I continued on with my life. I never cheated again during school or life, after that.
So probably the best thing that could happen to some people, is getting caught. The ones who continue to cheat even after getting caught, well they're doomed to life as Merchant Bankers.
When I was a young-hacker, I worked as a bellman.. It was slack work except when tour busses came in and then it was a scramble to get luggage up to the rooms. It meant multiple trips with a full cart and no passengers... What I couldn't handle was the long rides down to the lobby stopping at 10+ floors to pickup additional passengers... I soon discovered that if I held the 'door close' button while the elevator was descending, it would stop at the floors where people had pushed the 'down' button but the door wouldn't open. The elevator would stop. Hesitate for about 1.5 seconds, and then start moving again. The unfortunate drawback was that outside of the car, the 'down' light would go out and the waiting passengers would have to press it again to call for another elevator. I then learned that I didn't have to hold the door-close button. If I felt the car slow down and managed to press the button before the car came to a full stop, I could trigger the override.
Eventually, I got a copy of a master key (which I still have) that allowed me to just put the elevator in service mode and didn't have to override anything.
Maybe we shouldn't have sympathy for her. Maybe, just maybe, we should be supporting her for standing up against RIAA and trying to publicly out those scam artists for what they really are...
My diesel has a compression ratio of 22.7:1. It doesn't pre-detonate. I have no idea what you're talking about... Oh, you think your hillbilly engineering is representative of engineering done by people who understand physics...
No. Modern diesels don't require "ultra low sulfur diesel fuel". Emissions regulations require ULSD. injection pump manufacturers are scrambling to produce an injection pump that can deal with the decreased lubricity of ULSD (the process by which the sulfur is removed also reduces the lubricity of the fuel. Injection pumps, to date, have been lubricated by the fuel they're pumping. Reduce the lubricity of the fuel, increase the wear on the IP parts; some of which are machined to extremely high tolerances). Ask VW owners how they feel about their TDI's now that their IP's are failing and VW is not supporting them. My injection pump is 1992 technology (Nippondenso) and would fail very quickly if I didn't add a lubricity additive at the pump whenever I fill up. Fortunately, biodiesel is the best lubricity additive and cheap too.
What modern diesels require is actually a "urea" additive which is pumped into the exhaust somewhere to reduce NOx at a rate of about 8gallons per 10,000 miles. No, you can't pee into the tank. Urine has 5% urea and the vehicle sensors require at least 30% urea...
I live in Canada as well and have a 1990's generation Toyota diesel (indirect injected). I've left my truck at the airport for a week of 25C temps. I came back late one evening, -27C, and after a few prods of the glow plugs, got the truck started. No Ether required... Since then, I've installed a Webasto heater for about $600 used. Now I set the timer to start the heater 15 mins before I leave for work in the morning (or leave for home in the afternoon) and even down at -40C, the truck starts without glow plugs like a warm summer day. Best thing is, the interior heater will blow hot air immediately. The Webasto uses.3l/hour of fuel. It's especially nice when stuck in stop/go traffic because the diesel is so efficient, it will actually get cold when idled for too long on a cold day which means you lose the ability to blow hot air into the cab after idling in 1st gear for 4 or 5 minutes... So I tap the Webasto and in a couple of minutes, I'm heating the cab again.
You know it's funny. My father and father in-law were computer inexperienced windows users and were asking for my help a lot. I don't know how to use Windows so I could honestly reply "I don't know... I only know Unix and OSX..."
So both of them got Macs (at different times) and now I don't get any questions... Because shit just works for them...
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Don't make me use a real browser to click all the way through your site, make me agree to a stupid set of conditions for using the software, and then provide my browser with a cookie that it can subsequently use to download your software; when my browser is on one continent and the machine that wants the software is on another continent; you ass-fucks...
Nope. A degree gets you into HR. A network of friends who respect your abilities will get you past HR and get you into a job. HR is an obstacle course of policies, guidelines and resume' filters. I'm 44 and have never had to apply for a job with an HR department. I'm in my 6th career position; I don't have a degree and make good money. In the 3 cases where the place I worked shut down or moved out of town, I found myself re-employed or offers in hand within a week. In my current position, I'm a senior developer and between bouts of coding, I'm mentoring young smarty-pants masters degree wielding energetic youth... Some of them are little more than script kiddies, some are bright and will go far.. Looking at my limited data set over the years, no amount of degrees will wallpaper over an incompetent boob... The smart kids would rise anyway, regardless whether they had a degree or not.
My wife is doing my family history as well as hers... All of my history is in europe and most of hers is.. She's been able to find some helpful information through ancestry but in my opinion, not enough to justify the cost. Fortunately, the local public library has Ancestry.com accounts so if you go to the library and use their computers, you can camp on ancestry all day long... The librarian has to come over and log you in but one day the librarian was busy and recognized my wife, so wrote the username/password on a sticky note and handed it to my wife. My wife logged in with it and used it. Later that day she tried the username/password at home and it didn't work... Next time she went to the library, she brought her laptop and tried the username/password there and it worked... So they've got some sort of IP block or something associated with the library... So now she drags her laptop down there, uses Ancestry, print's info to PDF files and brings them home to print them out...
Just a thought.
I don't like working from home but for a different reason. As a contractor, paid by the hour, I can get 8.5 hours worth of on-site work done in about 4 hours at home... If I'm on-site, I can bill for 8.5 hours. If I'm at home, I can bill for 4 hours. Since my employer (my customer, technically) would prefer I work on-site instead of shelling in remotely, I oblige them by coming in, dealing with distractions and beauracracy, in exchange for billing higher... They're still happy with the quantity of work that gets done and continue to pay me well and renew my contract, year after year.
yeah; not so much.. As you get older and gain more experience (while doing everything possible to prevent being moved into a management track), you value your privacy... During the work day, I have to deal with personal matters (calls from the boy's school, wife, accountant, etc) and having a cow-orker 3 feet away pretending not to listen is not optimal... In an open plan, people have to get up, transfer the call to some meeting room and take it there, while running across the office with paperwork or what have you. Then there's the little mental breaks you take throughout the day to let your mind stew on a hard problem; you don't want someone staring at your monitor from behind you... Don't get me wrong, my employer gets plenty of work out of me and they're very happy with my performance and my pay is commensurate with that assertion..
Currently, I have a cubicle somewhere in the building... I don't know where it is; I've never seen it. I assume it's like all the other cubicles in the building.. I work in a lab primarily because I need access to hardware and test equipment... The lab is somewhat open-plan but I have a private little corner that I've managed to arrange by moving benches around... It's noisy enough in the lab that I can keep from getting distracted by people milling about or make my phone calls without anyone listening in... I can focus for long periods when I need to and the restricted access to the lab prevents a lot of people from just wandering in for a visit...
When I need to communicate with my cow-orkers, we all use Jabber.. If you're focused, you can hide your jabber window and not be disturbed... I get to choose when distraction is permissible or unwanted.
No, it's still irritating because mythtv can flag the commercials for me but it can't flag repetitive inanity... Why can't the scene people who edit out commercials also edit out the fucking narrator? It is, at best, 18 minutes of television.
Scene folks: Are you listening?
So much for facebukkake.com...
When the ipad first came out, this was my first thought... Either give Honda $1800 for the 'entertainment' option, or just buy each kid an ipad so they can watch whatever they want ...
We still manage to keep our 9 yo sufficiently entertained or interested by talking, playing games, and looking out the window that we haven't felt the need to invest in any 'in-car video' gear... Our longest road trip has only been 8 hours though so who knows.
....and since 90% of car accidents happen within 2 miles of home, unless you live within 2 miles of the airport, you're statistically better off driving to your destination than flying as long as you can get over the 2 mile circle-of-death. :-)
wififofum - lets you scan for access points and generally finds more access points than the Apple wifi chooser lets you see (due to them falling below some RSSI threshold)... So sometimes the native wifi chooser will display 2 or 3 access points but wififofum will see a lot more and there's a greater chance that I can find and connect to an open one.
wifipass - dumps out the list of wifi passwords in your device. Handy for transferring them to a buddy or to your next phone.
synergyclient - So you can use your desktop mouse on your IOS device... Ok, this isn't a must-have feature but is pretty cool.
openssh client and server. So you can ssh into your device
inet-utils, unix-utils - so you can have 'top' and 'netstat' and 'ping' and whatever...
minicom - are you at the colo with a dead laptop? Pull out your iphone serial dongle.
That's all I can think of right now. I haven't explored extensively... But my phone is now more like a handheld computer than I need it to be.
You clearly have not tried to have a logical discussion with a 3 year old. You can not, absolutely not, explain why her teddy bear is disappearing into a strange machine and that it'll be the same when it gets out the other side...
rubbing blackberries together is for luddites... They have Lithium batteries.. Just short the batteries with a paperclip and stick them in the middle of the phonebook... I'll be warm and toasty while you're freezing your nads off....
That's exactly what happens in the canadian city where I live... We didn't receive white pages this year but we received 2 copies of the yellow pages plus 2 copies of the 'mini yellow pages' that they want you to put in your cars.
It's offensive.
I cheated once, in high school. I was hacking Apple ][ when I was 10 so I developed the ability to type at 100+ WPM by the time I was 15. In high school, I made extra money by typing in papers for other students... Just typing, not creating content. One day I was running behind on a social studies paper and decided to re-use the same paper that I had typed up for a fellow student under a different teacher. In the end, my teacher ended up grading both papers and 'we' got caught. (At that point, the teacher didn't know who had plagiarized whom).. I fessed up, the other student got off free, I was threatened with suspension but it was clear by my reaction that this was not normal practice for me so the teacher gave me 2 days to do the paper again and I continued on with my life. I never cheated again during school or life, after that.
So probably the best thing that could happen to some people, is getting caught. The ones who continue to cheat even after getting caught, well they're doomed to life as Merchant Bankers.
When I was a young-hacker, I worked as a bellman.. It was slack work except when tour busses came in and then it was a scramble to get luggage up to the rooms. It meant multiple trips with a full cart and no passengers... What I couldn't handle was the long rides down to the lobby stopping at 10+ floors to pickup additional passengers... I soon discovered that if I held the 'door close' button while the elevator was descending, it would stop at the floors where people had pushed the 'down' button but the door wouldn't open. The elevator would stop. Hesitate for about 1.5 seconds, and then start moving again. The unfortunate drawback was that outside of the car, the 'down' light would go out and the waiting passengers would have to press it again to call for another elevator. I then learned that I didn't have to hold the door-close button. If I felt the car slow down and managed to press the button before the car came to a full stop, I could trigger the override.
Eventually, I got a copy of a master key (which I still have) that allowed me to just put the elevator in service mode and didn't have to override anything.
Maybe we shouldn't have sympathy for her. Maybe, just maybe, we should be supporting her for standing up against RIAA and trying to publicly out those scam artists for what they really are ...
I predict that there is a 99% chance that you will be her ex-boyfriend by christmas.
Incidentally, my wife doesn't appreciate being introduced as my 'ex-girlfriend'... Just a little bit of pre-marital advice.
Screw the android... I wanna know how he got a girlfriend...
My diesel has a compression ratio of 22.7:1. It doesn't pre-detonate. I have no idea what you're talking about... Oh, you think your hillbilly engineering is representative of engineering done by people who understand physics...
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot indeed.
No. Modern diesels don't require "ultra low sulfur diesel fuel". Emissions regulations require ULSD. injection pump manufacturers are scrambling to produce an injection pump that can deal with the decreased lubricity of ULSD (the process by which the sulfur is removed also reduces the lubricity of the fuel. Injection pumps, to date, have been lubricated by the fuel they're pumping. Reduce the lubricity of the fuel, increase the wear on the IP parts; some of which are machined to extremely high tolerances). Ask VW owners how they feel about their TDI's now that their IP's are failing and VW is not supporting them. My injection pump is 1992 technology (Nippondenso) and would fail very quickly if I didn't add a lubricity additive at the pump whenever I fill up. Fortunately, biodiesel is the best lubricity additive and cheap too.
What modern diesels require is actually a "urea" additive which is pumped into the exhaust somewhere to reduce NOx at a rate of about 8gallons per 10,000 miles. No, you can't pee into the tank. Urine has 5% urea and the vehicle sensors require at least 30% urea...
I live in Canada as well and have a 1990's generation Toyota diesel (indirect injected). I've left my truck at the airport for a week of 25C temps. I came back late one evening, -27C, and after a few prods of the glow plugs, got the truck started. No Ether required... Since then, I've installed a Webasto heater for about $600 used. Now I set the timer to start the heater 15 mins before I leave for work in the morning (or leave for home in the afternoon) and even down at -40C, the truck starts without glow plugs like a warm summer day. Best thing is, the interior heater will blow hot air immediately. The Webasto uses .3l/hour of fuel. It's especially nice when stuck in stop/go traffic because the diesel is so efficient, it will actually get cold when idled for too long on a cold day which means you lose the ability to blow hot air into the cab after idling in 1st gear for 4 or 5 minutes... So I tap the Webasto and in a couple of minutes, I'm heating the cab again.
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hgytjuedsweskloip;kloip;~!@! Translation: "hello!"
Everyone's worried about lock-in.. I'm thinking "Great. iAds in iTerm."
So both of them got Macs (at different times) and now I don't get any questions... Because shit just works for them...