There are many kinds of window managers, with and without widgets, running on many different x-servers.. Although they may seem like one thing, they are not.. But your point on windowing and widgets I get, but that is not to say that some neat things can not be done with X windows at that size.. I mean if you wanted to you could make icons or buttons the size of your hand on your 19 inch (or whatever) monitor and fill the desktop with em, so if you scale down that to phone size, then it's not so crazy.
Not sure about the state where this happened.. but here where I am, your vacation, and severance pay is calculated into when you are eligible to start receiving unemployment checks.. So declaring a larger amount will screw you, as you would not have funds for the longer "waiting period" caused by saying you received more money than you did.
Although I personally would not want to keep money not due to me, I would inform them that until everything is straighted out with the unenjoyment office to the satisfaction of me not LOSING money, then I will keep it.. after it is straight I would happily return it.. But you can imagine the fun of trying to straighten this out with an agency not used to thinking outside the box.
Table games have odds built into the game, all of them favor the casino some only slightly..
Slot machines are regulated, and must return back a minimum percentage (75 percent for Nevada I believe) by LAW.. however, this does not mean that if you put in $100 you will get back $75.. it may be that the next guy, or the one after him and so on, will eventually get that $75... again, this is by LAW... If you think on this, what that means is that for every $100 of coins run through, they will get to keep $25 of it... Now the guy that goes to Vegas and drops $500 and goes home broke.. he did not give the casino $500, he gave them $125, and someone else (or many elses) got the other $375.. You might not believe it, but that is the way it is.. at least for slot machines... When you see those signs of 95 percent payback.. the casino MUST also payback the percentage advertised.. again by LAW.
Ahh.. fantasy verses reality, I remember it from my days in manufacturing. We had that problem as well. Our estimators would imagine some fantasy production number, quote the jobs based on it, and then it was up to the workers to try and make the dream come true.. I luckily ended up running a department that was basically cad/cam so I ended up having to do my own quotes of time and materials required, because I had to draw the part and program the machine to cut based upon material.. I based my quotes on "actual reality".. and I refused to alter them to conform to some target they were trying to achieve.. you know what, we still got the work to keep the department busy, and the department was the most profitable one in the joint.
One of the nice things they did do at this place, was what they called "process improvements".. basically on any job, if you could find a way to improve the process in either time or material savings.. and demonstrate a yearly savings per year above a certain amount (I forget what it was) then you would get a little monetary award.. these were also worked into your yearly reveiw.
I was not disagreeing with you.. I was merely addressing the point about the assumption that employees are prone to hiding things when faced with having to document a process, by looking at it from an employees point of view.
To address your management issue.. I'll give you an example that is happening in the trucking industry.. Driving a big rig, has a minimum requirement of skills. What is happening at a lot of companies, is a large turn over of employees with the most basic skills, to reduce costs that they would pay a more experienced driver. Companies now treat their more experienced drivers as easily replaceable, and give little thought to doing just that. The result of this, is large turn over.. increased costs of training, and increased costs with accidents and damaged equipment. There is also the fact that not everyone with the basic skill set is suited to do the job, or will get any job satisfaction from doing it.. and this leads to large turn over from the opposite end of the spectrum as well.
The problem in many if not most companies, is that employee costs are the first thing that is looked at by management in any tough economic times, and bad decisions often follow.
the instant employees realize or suspect that they're being made interchangeable by participating in any process engineering effort, they'll learn to conceal key details which will make all work to date useless.
I think the problem is this.. Let's say your good at, and enjoy your job. You kick ass and your employer wants all their employees to be like you.. So we are going to document the process you use to do a particular task. You can of course provide me with the basic steps, and even "some" solutions to common problems you run into with this task.. but the thing is I will not be able to document all your previous experiences, your education, or how you think.. I am also certain that it will also become annoying to you, and interfere with you "getting things done" for me to try and document what to you is the sum of all these things that led to you being you.. That doesn't mean your concealing anything.. and let's say you train someone to do a task, you will still get some variation both good and bad because people can not be programmed like a machine.
If you were to document the process of writing processes, and gave it to 3 other people, and all 4 of you wrote a process for the same task.. what do you think the chances are that even one of them would be close to what you wrote ?
If I had a phone with GPS (which I don't) and I signed up for Latitude, and you even somehow had my cell phone number, you would not be able to find my location (which would be the location I told google to share, which might not be my CURRENT location) that is unless I added you as people allowed to see it... It's similar to IM
On the other hand.. If I have a facebook account, or some other type of online social account that reveals enough details, then you might be able to figure out who I really am, and where I live, and follow me with out my knowledge.
I am sure there are people strange enough (oohh so social) to even try and tie the two together.. regardless of that, I think Latitude could be useful for 2 or more people exploring a city they might be unfamiliar with.. For example, if some friends and I were in say Germany, and I found someplace I would like them to meet me. It would be easier for me to send them my location, than it might be to try and find out the address and how to get there.
This is a common problem with many people.. listen, if gambling is not fun to the point you demonstrate by your comment.. find something else to do with your money.
Turning on the wayback machine.. Before they became ISP's for the real internet.. AOL, Prodigy, and Compuserve were private networks with their own content, and controls. Obviously they couldn't provide what the internet now does.
To address the issue of a new internet.. As long as the old one stays, why not ?.. just as there are different morals and cultures all over the planet.. example Utah.. Why not make a separate net where people from Utah could be happy ?.. In fact I think Utah would be the place to find people to design this new squeeky clean separate internet... after it's built, then I don't have to listen to people whine about protecting their kids..
Strange that you say nobody wants it, and yet T-mobile keeps running out of stock of them. They are in limited stock today, but a week ago when I checked they were out.
I use gimp, but I always liked Paint Shop Pro.. I think I'd even buy it for Linux if they ported it.. even though I know my way around gimp enough to get by.
The applications I mentioned,, may be "major", but they are specialty apps because the vast majority of users don't require things like business accounting software. Something like a deck designing program is also a specialty program, and I imagine there are individual instances of such "subset" applications that would hinder a business from switching.. but I think it is mainly the "major specialty" applications that are causing the problems.
I know (and I said) that there are apps already out there for these things..I hope that people do get entrepreneurial, and that some of these projects are worked on and improved.. I am all for it.
I don't think that software for designing a deck is the type of specialty software that concerns businesses.. It is more likely something like apps for medical records, point of sale, accounting, and cad/cam..Many done by people selling equipment with this custom software as part of a package.
All of these can be done in Linux, and some have but are either flaky in their free versions, or fairly expensive in pay versions. Cad programs in particular made for Linux, suffer from the same overpricing as Windows IMHO... For some reasons, the makers of CAD software have decided that people who draw things in CAD programs make a lot of money off using their product to draw things, and that means they deserve a larger piece of the pie, than someone who makes say a photo editor.
Slackware is what I started on.. I remember getting the Cds, making a root and boot disk and installing.. It was during the time of modem internet and I specifically bought a modem that would work (non win-modem).. getting that baby to work was a challenge but always satisfying once the puzzles were solved. I kept that modem through several upgrades and new systems.
I think the order of discovery for me, was.. Slackware, Redhat, Mandrake, Debian.. once I got a taste of Debian, it's been Debian based distro's ever since.
Things sure have come a long way.. but I don't regret the hours I spent solving problems way back then.. as I said there was a certain satisfaction to getting something to work.
Some stations already send a scrolling message that only analog TV's can see.. warning that the TV needs a converter box.. This has been going on for well over a year.. There is absolutely no reason that there should have been an extension.. People need to take their lumps if they haven't gotten ready by now.. As I said below, people will adapt.. they will either find a box somewhere, or get cable or something.
I suppose there is also a new group of people who are recently unemployed, who are dropping cable to reduce their monthly bills.. Still, at $50 per box it's cheaper than probably what most of them pay for one month of cable.
Since the extension is not a requirement, many stations will shut down analog anyway. Now it might not be all of them.. but all it takes is one network that has something that people will miss, and the procrastinators will get off their butts.. For example, in my area, the ABC station stopped their analog early.. damned if I didn't hit the store the next day to get a box. Main reason was because Lost was about to start up the new episodes, and of course I needed it anyway.
Like everyone else, I knew a lonnng time ago I needed it.. and I even got coupons.. but then I let them expire.. my bad.. so I ended up footing the bill myself.. but it's done.. and mainly because of the early shutdown by ABC. I am pretty sure that well over 90 percent of the people that need the boxes will have them way before June, and that was entirely too long of an extension.. people would get what they need, or adapt by buying cable or Satellite if there was a box shortage.
Think Instant Messenger.. where you have to allow who you want to be able to see you. The threat (according to this submission) is that someone can physically get your phone, and add themselves into the list of people you want to be able to see where you are.. without you knowing it.. I imagine it's possible to do, to the really lame people.. and even if someone does this, I imagine it is a simple matter of checking now and again to see who has access to your whereabouts, and just removing those you don't want.
What's the point? California has enough climate and scenic diversity from one end to the other to make leaving California unnecessary unless there's a specific thing you want to see outside of its borders.
It's surprising the numbers of people in the US that rarely leave their own city or state and are fat, dumb and happy. Yes the US has a lot do do and see, and it is not "necessary" to leave it.. Going to your local Oktoberfest, or going to Paris in Las Vegas can be fun, but nothing like doing the real thing. There is more to it than just climate and scenery.
and especially for doing things like buying and building long range missiles, right up until the invasion?
We were either really really good at destroying everything during the invasion, or perhaps this is like all the other things we said they had.
You know, I was doing the google thing to kind of compare the Presidential inaugural speeches of Bush and Obama.. I was not looking for any more "conspiracy theories", kind of hope that's all behind us.. But what I found was that in Bush's inaugural speech he was already laying the groundwork of going after WMD's because he said then, before 911, that he was going to go after them.. So this newbie (at the time) President, with no "faulty" intelligence to blame, had already decided that he was going to invade Iraq...If you believe for a second, that Iraq was any kind of threat, you'll believe anything.
The previous administration has also painted this picture of Iran, in hopes to do the same things there.. but let me tell you.. I am more worried about Pakistan (our supposed allies) than I am Iran.. and Pakistan HAS nukes.
I "was" driving truck for a few months (Nov,Dec,Jan), and I saw those trucks in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and Oregon (off the top of my head) and I saw them so frequently that I wondered about the company making them.. they have got to be doing quite well whoever or wherever they are. Those are huge blades, and whoever is molding them at such a rate must be working their butts off.
Well, I understand your sarcasm.. but the 10 minute thing is a little harsh
Ahhh the old days, when you measured your penis size by how fast the Doom demo ran.. I am sure that all this boot speed is life or death to the laptop guys.. although I can't imagine how an extra 30 sceonds boot is more important than the speed of the system once it has booted.
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There are many kinds of window managers, with and without widgets, running on many different x-servers.. Although they may seem like one thing, they are not.. But your point on windowing and widgets I get, but that is not to say that some neat things can not be done with X windows at that size.. I mean if you wanted to you could make icons or buttons the size of your hand on your 19 inch (or whatever) monitor and fill the desktop with em, so if you scale down that to phone size, then it's not so crazy.
Not sure about the state where this happened.. but here where I am, your vacation, and severance pay is calculated into when you are eligible to start receiving unemployment checks.. So declaring a larger amount will screw you, as you would not have funds for the longer "waiting period" caused by saying you received more money than you did.
Although I personally would not want to keep money not due to me, I would inform them that until everything is straighted out with the unenjoyment office to the satisfaction of me not LOSING money, then I will keep it.. after it is straight I would happily return it.. But you can imagine the fun of trying to straighten this out with an agency not used to thinking outside the box.
Table games have odds built into the game, all of them favor the casino some only slightly..
Slot machines are regulated, and must return back a minimum percentage (75 percent for Nevada I believe) by LAW.. however, this does not mean that if you put in $100 you will get back $75 .. it may be that the next guy, or the one after him and so on, will eventually get that $75... again, this is by LAW... If you think on this, what that means is that for every $100 of coins run through, they will get to keep $25 of it... Now the guy that goes to Vegas and drops $500 and goes home broke.. he did not give the casino $500, he gave them $125, and someone else (or many elses) got the other $375.. You might not believe it, but that is the way it is.. at least for slot machines... When you see those signs of 95 percent payback.. the casino MUST also payback the percentage advertised.. again by LAW.
Actually the next iPhone killer will be revealed on the season finale of CSI Miami.
Ahh.. fantasy verses reality, I remember it from my days in manufacturing. We had that problem as well. Our estimators would imagine some fantasy production number, quote the jobs based on it, and then it was up to the workers to try and make the dream come true.. I luckily ended up running a department that was basically cad/cam so I ended up having to do my own quotes of time and materials required, because I had to draw the part and program the machine to cut based upon material.. I based my quotes on "actual reality".. and I refused to alter them to conform to some target they were trying to achieve.. you know what, we still got the work to keep the department busy, and the department was the most profitable one in the joint.
One of the nice things they did do at this place, was what they called "process improvements".. basically on any job, if you could find a way to improve the process in either time or material savings.. and demonstrate a yearly savings per year above a certain amount (I forget what it was) then you would get a little monetary award.. these were also worked into your yearly reveiw.
I was not disagreeing with you.. I was merely addressing the point about the assumption that employees are prone to hiding things when faced with having to document a process, by looking at it from an employees point of view.
To address your management issue.. I'll give you an example that is happening in the trucking industry.. Driving a big rig, has a minimum requirement of skills. What is happening at a lot of companies, is a large turn over of employees with the most basic skills, to reduce costs that they would pay a more experienced driver. Companies now treat their more experienced drivers as easily replaceable, and give little thought to doing just that. The result of this, is large turn over.. increased costs of training, and increased costs with accidents and damaged equipment. There is also the fact that not everyone with the basic skill set is suited to do the job, or will get any job satisfaction from doing it.. and this leads to large turn over from the opposite end of the spectrum as well.
The problem in many if not most companies, is that employee costs are the first thing that is looked at by management in any tough economic times, and bad decisions often follow.
the instant employees realize or suspect that they're being made interchangeable by participating in any process engineering effort, they'll learn to conceal key details which will make all work to date useless.
I think the problem is this.. Let's say your good at, and enjoy your job. You kick ass and your employer wants all their employees to be like you.. So we are going to document the process you use to do a particular task. You can of course provide me with the basic steps, and even "some" solutions to common problems you run into with this task.. but the thing is I will not be able to document all your previous experiences, your education, or how you think.. I am also certain that it will also become annoying to you, and interfere with you "getting things done" for me to try and document what to you is the sum of all these things that led to you being you.. That doesn't mean your concealing anything.. and let's say you train someone to do a task, you will still get some variation both good and bad because people can not be programmed like a machine.
If you were to document the process of writing processes, and gave it to 3 other people, and all 4 of you wrote a process for the same task.. what do you think the chances are that even one of them would be close to what you wrote ?
If I had a phone with GPS (which I don't) and I signed up for Latitude, and you even somehow had my cell phone number, you would not be able to find my location (which would be the location I told google to share, which might not be my CURRENT location) that is unless I added you as people allowed to see it... It's similar to IM
On the other hand.. If I have a facebook account, or some other type of online social account that reveals enough details, then you might be able to figure out who I really am, and where I live, and follow me with out my knowledge.
I am sure there are people strange enough (oohh so social) to even try and tie the two together.. regardless of that, I think Latitude could be useful for 2 or more people exploring a city they might be unfamiliar with.. For example, if some friends and I were in say Germany, and I found someplace I would like them to meet me. It would be easier for me to send them my location, than it might be to try and find out the address and how to get there.
and fuck the casinos, they can all burn
This is a common problem with many people.. listen, if gambling is not fun to the point you demonstrate by your comment.. find something else to do with your money.
Turning on the wayback machine.. Before they became ISP's for the real internet.. AOL, Prodigy, and Compuserve were private networks with their own content, and controls. Obviously they couldn't provide what the internet now does.
To address the issue of a new internet.. As long as the old one stays, why not ? .. just as there are different morals and cultures all over the planet .. example Utah.. Why not make a separate net where people from Utah could be happy ? .. In fact I think Utah would be the place to find people to design this new squeeky clean separate internet... after it's built, then I don't have to listen to people whine about protecting their kids..
Strange that you say nobody wants it, and yet T-mobile keeps running out of stock of them. They are in limited stock today, but a week ago when I checked they were out.
I use gimp, but I always liked Paint Shop Pro.. I think I'd even buy it for Linux if they ported it.. even though I know my way around gimp enough to get by.
The applications I mentioned,, may be "major", but they are specialty apps because the vast majority of users don't require things like business accounting software. Something like a deck designing program is also a specialty program, and I imagine there are individual instances of such "subset" applications that would hinder a business from switching.. but I think it is mainly the "major specialty" applications that are causing the problems.
I know (and I said) that there are apps already out there for these things..I hope that people do get entrepreneurial, and that some of these projects are worked on and improved.. I am all for it.
I don't think that software for designing a deck is the type of specialty software that concerns businesses.. It is more likely something like apps for medical records, point of sale, accounting, and cad/cam..Many done by people selling equipment with this custom software as part of a package.
All of these can be done in Linux, and some have but are either flaky in their free versions, or fairly expensive in pay versions. Cad programs in particular made for Linux, suffer from the same overpricing as Windows IMHO... For some reasons, the makers of CAD software have decided that people who draw things in CAD programs make a lot of money off using their product to draw things, and that means they deserve a larger piece of the pie, than someone who makes say a photo editor.
You do know that Russia is no longer a communist country don't you ?
Just curious, what advance user things are you talking about ??
Slackware is what I started on.. I remember getting the Cds, making a root and boot disk and installing.. It was during the time of modem internet and I specifically bought a modem that would work (non win-modem).. getting that baby to work was a challenge but always satisfying once the puzzles were solved. I kept that modem through several upgrades and new systems.
I think the order of discovery for me, was.. Slackware, Redhat, Mandrake, Debian .. once I got a taste of Debian, it's been Debian based distro's ever since.
Things sure have come a long way.. but I don't regret the hours I spent solving problems way back then.. as I said there was a certain satisfaction to getting something to work.
Some stations already send a scrolling message that only analog TV's can see.. warning that the TV needs a converter box.. This has been going on for well over a year.. There is absolutely no reason that there should have been an extension.. People need to take their lumps if they haven't gotten ready by now.. As I said below, people will adapt.. they will either find a box somewhere, or get cable or something.
I suppose there is also a new group of people who are recently unemployed, who are dropping cable to reduce their monthly bills.. Still, at $50 per box it's cheaper than probably what most of them pay for one month of cable.
Since the extension is not a requirement, many stations will shut down analog anyway. Now it might not be all of them.. but all it takes is one network that has something that people will miss, and the procrastinators will get off their butts.. For example, in my area, the ABC station stopped their analog early.. damned if I didn't hit the store the next day to get a box. Main reason was because Lost was about to start up the new episodes, and of course I needed it anyway.
Like everyone else, I knew a lonnng time ago I needed it.. and I even got coupons.. but then I let them expire.. my bad.. so I ended up footing the bill myself.. but it's done.. and mainly because of the early shutdown by ABC. I am pretty sure that well over 90 percent of the people that need the boxes will have them way before June, and that was entirely too long of an extension.. people would get what they need, or adapt by buying cable or Satellite if there was a box shortage.
Think Instant Messenger.. where you have to allow who you want to be able to see you. The threat (according to this submission) is that someone can physically get your phone, and add themselves into the list of people you want to be able to see where you are.. without you knowing it.. I imagine it's possible to do, to the really lame people.. and even if someone does this, I imagine it is a simple matter of checking now and again to see who has access to your whereabouts, and just removing those you don't want.
At least that is my understanding of it.
No,.. I saw the spoon icon, and made a Matrix connection.
What's the point? California has enough climate and scenic diversity from one end to the other to make leaving California unnecessary unless there's a specific thing you want to see outside of its borders.
It's surprising the numbers of people in the US that rarely leave their own city or state and are fat, dumb and happy. Yes the US has a lot do do and see, and it is not "necessary" to leave it.. Going to your local Oktoberfest, or going to Paris in Las Vegas can be fun, but nothing like doing the real thing. There is more to it than just climate and scenery.
and especially for doing things like buying and building long range missiles, right up until the invasion?
We were either really really good at destroying everything during the invasion, or perhaps this is like all the other things we said they had.
You know, I was doing the google thing to kind of compare the Presidential inaugural speeches of Bush and Obama.. I was not looking for any more "conspiracy theories", kind of hope that's all behind us.. But what I found was that in Bush's inaugural speech he was already laying the groundwork of going after WMD's because he said then, before 911, that he was going to go after them.. So this newbie (at the time) President, with no "faulty" intelligence to blame, had already decided that he was going to invade Iraq...If you believe for a second, that Iraq was any kind of threat, you'll believe anything.
The previous administration has also painted this picture of Iran, in hopes to do the same things there.. but let me tell you.. I am more worried about Pakistan (our supposed allies) than I am Iran.. and Pakistan HAS nukes.
I "was" driving truck for a few months (Nov,Dec,Jan), and I saw those trucks in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and Oregon (off the top of my head) and I saw them so frequently that I wondered about the company making them.. they have got to be doing quite well whoever or wherever they are. Those are huge blades, and whoever is molding them at such a rate must be working their butts off.
Well, I understand your sarcasm.. but the 10 minute thing is a little harsh
Ahhh the old days, when you measured your penis size by how fast the Doom demo ran.. I am sure that all this boot speed is life or death to the laptop guys.. although I can't imagine how an extra 30 sceonds boot is more important than the speed of the system once it has booted.