So what's your problem with working from the beach? I've sat and worked from my patio or out in my garden a number of times, more often from the coffee shop up the hill, occasionally at the library. If the work gets done why would you care where it gets done from?
My problem is that it is unfair on those who do have to sit and work in an office. I realise this will mean nothing to most slashdotters, but I think all employees should be treated pretty much the same, with no one having any special priveleges.
The computer literacy needed to use chrome or firefox? Simply to know that they exist and are as capable if not marginally more so than Microsofts offerings. That was a big change and one part of that change was the browser ballot page that Microsoft agreed to.
Are there any figures for how many people actually downloaded an alternative browser due to the browser ballot page? Nobody I know who isn't interested in computers would even have bothered reading it.
Are you serious? What extra computer literacy do you need to use Firefox or Chrome?
You need to have an ideological or technological interest in taking the time to download and learn the quirks of a new browser that in practice will do exactly the same as Internet Explorer for the normal user.
You would never say that $734m was "almost half a billion" in English. You might say "over half a billion" but it would be more accurate to say "almost three quarters of a billion" rather than "almost a billion".
I think we need a quad-rotor drone with a giant balloon and hydrogen generators, it takes a balloon trip with quad-rotor power most of the way up and uses solar power to harvest hydrogen from the atmosphere, then once the balloon is useless it dumps it and burns hydrogen rockets (with the hydrogen it gathered on the way up) to escape Earth's gravitational pull. Set course for the moon, gather data, then head back to earth using boosters to slow down before re-entering the atmosphere then quad-rotor power to make a safe landing somewhere back on earth.
Surely the simplest way is simply to build an indefinitely extendable ladder? You start with 10 feet then simply keep passing up new 10 feet sections, until pretty soon you're at 100 feet, then 1,000 and so on, until eventually you're on the moon.
I can't believe no-one's thought of this before. So-called scientists just like to make things complicated to seem clever and get government grants.
You know how I know you posted from a mobile device?
That's just a pour excuse like when people mix up "their" and "there" and "they're" and blame it on the spell-checker. Miner typos on an informal internet forum are not a problem (except for us pedantic Spelling/Grammar Nazis) but it is a dangerous president for real work just to say "it's not my fault, the predictive text feature on my phone is doing it".
You are responsible for what you post. You knead to cheque what you right.
Use a bit of empiricism to figure it out, you fucking prick. Many departments in the US now allow (and even mandate) that officers have either an AR-15 or full blown M-16 in the trunk of their car. As the anti-gun lobby has been so eager to point out to 2nd Amendment supporters: those are weapons of war meant for killing large volumes of people quickly and efficiently.
And of course that has nothing to do with the fact that so many US civilians also have AR-15s and that criminals therefore have access to these and more powerful weapons?
I know here on slashdot the gun-fans think that the police/military shouldn't have weapons that the ordinary citizen can't, but presumably you'd all still accept that they should have at least equivalent firepower?
Well, according to letters we have found from the time, the rape part might have been convinient lie. The danes were taller and blonder than the british, and they bathed regularly and braided their hair and beards. They settled part of Brittain in what became known as Danelaw, and was considered a nuisance because they could seduce even married women
So, a bit like American GIs during WW2 in Britain?
In a discussion I had with a friend the other day about how did Vikings navigate?
If you take a straight left from Scandinavia you'll either hit Britain (which you can plunder/settle) or if you're unlucky and miss it, you eventually get to Greenland then America.
the most readily distinguishable characteristic of calcite is that it's birefringent
That sounds like some particularly complicated sexual practice. I'm not going to spoil things by looking up what it actually means, as it will certainly be much, much duller.
I once studied law, intending to become a lawyer, then realized that would make me a lawyer, and I wanted a career where I could sleep at night. So I became a programmer
I'm sure the lawyers who help get justice for rape victims in India or who prosecute war criminals sleep perfectly well at night. Charities need lawyers, plenty of victims of the powerful and wealthy need lawyers.
Thinking in one dimensional stereotypes is not a good advertisment for the benefits of being good at programming.
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But if I go to work, I get disturbed by people who want to find me and ask me questions, which means I'm not concentrating on doing my job.
Most people's jobs require them to answer questions. Why are you so special?
I'm a "Brit" and don't know what a Piker is. Pikey, maybe, if you're deliberately trying to be offensive about Travellers.
The concept at my workplace of trying to walk up to somebody and talk to them died a few layoffs ago.
At that stage you might as well save the money on renting offices and have everyone working from home anyway.
So what's your problem with working from the beach? I've sat and worked from my patio or out in my garden a number of times, more often from the coffee shop up the hill, occasionally at the library. If the work gets done why would you care where it gets done from?
My problem is that it is unfair on those who do have to sit and work in an office. I realise this will mean nothing to most slashdotters, but I think all employees should be treated pretty much the same, with no one having any special priveleges.
That's why traditional "used car" analogies don't fit
Blasphemy! Burn the witch!
You can pry my ridiculously inapposite slashdot car analogies from my cold dead fingers.
The computer literacy needed to use chrome or firefox? Simply to know that they exist and are as capable if not marginally more so than Microsofts offerings. That was a big change and one part of that change was the browser ballot page that Microsoft agreed to.
Are there any figures for how many people actually downloaded an alternative browser due to the browser ballot page? Nobody I know who isn't interested in computers would even have bothered reading it.
Are you serious? What extra computer literacy do you need to use Firefox or Chrome?
You need to have an ideological or technological interest in taking the time to download and learn the quirks of a new browser that in practice will do exactly the same as Internet Explorer for the normal user.
Does apple ever get in trouble for bundling safari?
Altogether now: Apple is not a convicted monopolist so they can do what they like.
You would never say that $734m was "almost half a billion" in English. You might say "over half a billion" but it would be more accurate to say "almost three quarters of a billion" rather than "almost a billion".
561m Euro = 734m U.S. Dollars, which is almost closer to a billion than to 500m.
Well, if you're rounding up to the nearest billion, then $1 is "almost a billion dollars".
I think we need a quad-rotor drone with a giant balloon and hydrogen generators, it takes a balloon trip with quad-rotor power most of the way up and uses solar power to harvest hydrogen from the atmosphere, then once the balloon is useless it dumps it and burns hydrogen rockets (with the hydrogen it gathered on the way up) to escape Earth's gravitational pull. Set course for the moon, gather data, then head back to earth using boosters to slow down before re-entering the atmosphere then quad-rotor power to make a safe landing somewhere back on earth.
Surely the simplest way is simply to build an indefinitely extendable ladder? You start with 10 feet then simply keep passing up new 10 feet sections, until pretty soon you're at 100 feet, then 1,000 and so on, until eventually you're on the moon.
I can't believe no-one's thought of this before. So-called scientists just like to make things complicated to seem clever and get government grants.
If it's that fucking easy, why not just do it this weekend and claim your $20m from Google so you can retire comfortably well off on Monday?
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You know how I know you posted from a mobile device?
That's just a pour excuse like when people mix up "their" and "there" and "they're" and blame it on the spell-checker. Miner typos on an informal internet forum are not a problem (except for us pedantic Spelling/Grammar Nazis) but it is a dangerous president for real work just to say "it's not my fault, the predictive text feature on my phone is doing it".
You are responsible for what you post. You knead to cheque what you right.
Why can't the NZ government deport him? Is he a NZ citizen now or something?
Use a bit of empiricism to figure it out, you fucking prick. Many departments in the US now allow (and even mandate) that officers have either an AR-15 or full blown M-16 in the trunk of their car. As the anti-gun lobby has been so eager to point out to 2nd Amendment supporters: those are weapons of war meant for killing large volumes of people quickly and efficiently.
And of course that has nothing to do with the fact that so many US civilians also have AR-15s and that criminals therefore have access to these and more powerful weapons?
I know here on slashdot the gun-fans think that the police/military shouldn't have weapons that the ordinary citizen can't, but presumably you'd all still accept that they should have at least equivalent firepower?
I've read that Bees also use polarized sunlight to navigate.
This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again how sheep's bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
Well, according to letters we have found from the time, the rape part might have been convinient lie. The danes were taller and blonder than the british, and they bathed regularly and braided their hair and beards. They settled part of Brittain in what became known as Danelaw, and was considered a nuisance because they could seduce even married women
So, a bit like American GIs during WW2 in Britain?
That involved following/riding on whales, didn't it?
I thought they followed swallows carrying coconuts, or something?
In a discussion I had with a friend the other day about how did Vikings navigate?
If you take a straight left from Scandinavia you'll either hit Britain (which you can plunder/settle) or if you're unlucky and miss it, you eventually get to Greenland then America.
It's really not that complicated.
the most readily distinguishable characteristic of calcite is that it's birefringent
That sounds like some particularly complicated sexual practice. I'm not going to spoil things by looking up what it actually means, as it will certainly be much, much duller.
Always good to hear directly from our Dice overlords.
You should have come up with a car analogy too. Then we'd have known what you were talking about.
Indeed. If it weren't for lawyers, who would be there to help us navigate the colossal tangle of bureaucracy that lawyers invented?
Lawyers and bureaucrats are the price we pay for civilisation.
I know that the rugged individualists on slashdot would prefer a society ruled solely by the law of the market and gun, but some of us prefer sanity.
I once studied law, intending to become a lawyer, then realized that would make me a lawyer, and I wanted a career where I could sleep at night. So I became a programmer
I'm sure the lawyers who help get justice for rape victims in India or who prosecute war criminals sleep perfectly well at night. Charities need lawyers, plenty of victims of the powerful and wealthy need lawyers.
Thinking in one dimensional stereotypes is not a good advertisment for the benefits of being good at programming.
Plus, would you trust a transplant surgeon who doesn't understand modularity, re-use, and object-oriented design?
As long as he can handle his drink enough to keep the scalpel from shaking, I don't give a toss about whether he knows Visual Basic.