It's annoying when it's someone sitting next to or in front of you; otherwise, it's not noticeable. Oh, and clicky sounds when typing are a big distraction.
I think if your clients want to sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall, they have the right to give it a try - but there's no requirement that I enjoy sitting here listening to people lie. You have part of my attention - you have the minimum amount. The rest of my attention is back at the slaughtering pens of Facebook, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, has the stomach to do.
The Confederates did something like this in the early days of the US Civil War--they painted logs to look like cannons, and they often succeeded in fooling Union surveillance. Why "Quaker" guns? Because the Quakers were (and are) avowed pacifists (except for the one who was elected President of the US).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaker_Gun
That's because he owns the copyrights to Buddy Holly's catalog, and February 2008 marks the 50th anniversary of the day Holly's plane went down in an Iowa field. My understanding is that the Holly catalog is a significant source of Sir Paul's 800 million.
The developers plan to make Quaero available on all platforms, including PCs, mobile devices and digital TVs.
"All platforms" must surely include the Minitel, which, with its a text-only display, would choke on the rich graphics with which Google festoons its pages.
...is more home improvement projects for myself and neighbors. IT geeks would seem to be the ideal candidates to be moonlighting handymen.
It provides an element of physical labor that, shall we say, is lacking in your day job.
It's the ultimate form of hacking, and you know that you could do a better job than whatever slob worked on it before you
There's a tangible ROI on almost anything you do. Even minor things will make your house look nicer and probably raise its value. Major things (for one person to do), like reinsulating your attic, will have a profound effect on your heating & cooling bills.
The money isn't half bad, once you really start to know what you're doing.
The best part of the article is the stock-price chart that almost makes it look as though because AMD's stock price is approaching that of Intel's, that AMD is catching up with the 800 lb. gorilla. The real point of the graph, however, should be that Intel's stock price has fallen steadily over the past 12 months (high 30s to mid 20s), while AMD's hovered around 15 for the first six months, dropped along with Intel, then shot up to the low 20s in the past few weeks.
My vote for #8 is the increasingly common practice of clearing login name and password fields when a page has finished loading. Almost as bad is the practice of simply setting the focus to the login name field. I don't know how many times part of my password starts showing up in the name field because I've started typing before the page has finished loading.
Or in Alexandria, where the new headquarters were recently completed.
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If you think that that's big, you should check out the Kupgal Hill in India, a Stone Age (no pun intended) grove of boulders that were used as enormous drums by an ancient culture.
Actually all four of the TBMs used to dig the main tunnels (two per tunnel) are buried. The problem is that the tunnel was lined behind the TBMs, so that it was no longer big enough for the TBM to be backed out. (They did salvage the computers, etc., what's left buried is mostly the structure.)
They should have simply turned each machine to bore vertically upward. No, wait...
There were also some security issues that I found to be much worse than I expected. All of the tallies are kept on PCMCIA cards. At the end of the election, each of those cards is loaded onto one machine, designated as the zero machine. (I found it interesting that Diebold numbered the machines 0 through n-1, disproving my notion that they don't have anyone on board who knows anything about Computer Science.) (emphasis mine)
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It's annoying when it's someone sitting next to or in front of you; otherwise, it's not noticeable. Oh, and clicky sounds when typing are a big distraction.
http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/nosql/ (Some NSFW language.)
I think if your clients want to sit on my shoulders and call themselves tall, they have the right to give it a try - but there's no requirement that I enjoy sitting here listening to people lie. You have part of my attention - you have the minimum amount. The rest of my attention is back at the slaughtering pens of Facebook, where my colleagues and I are doing things that no one in this room, including and especially your clients, has the stomach to do.
Isn't this zombie-mania past its prime yet? It was funny for a while, but now it's just overplayed.
It's powered by the owner's ego.
We're that much closer to mastering alchemy, because someday we'll be able to produce anti-antimony, i.e. mon(e)y.
Can't it just Google them?
Well-played, sir.
I would have expected Bill Gates to have a much, much lower Slashdot number.
The Confederates did something like this in the early days of the US Civil War--they painted logs to look like cannons, and they often succeeded in fooling Union surveillance. Why "Quaker" guns? Because the Quakers were (and are) avowed pacifists (except for the one who was elected President of the US). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaker_Gun
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Don't they realize that's just a prototype for the long-rumored iStash?
That's because he owns the copyrights to Buddy Holly's catalog, and February 2008 marks the 50th anniversary of the day Holly's plane went down in an Iowa field. My understanding is that the Holly catalog is a significant source of Sir Paul's 800 million.
This is the U.S. government we're talking about. Shouldn't the question be, "How did they manage not to lose 2 of the 700 boxes?"
The Adblock extension is your friend. Imagine the "Block images from ..." contextual menu option on steroids.
The best part of the article is the stock-price chart that almost makes it look as though because AMD's stock price is approaching that of Intel's, that AMD is catching up with the 800 lb. gorilla. The real point of the graph, however, should be that Intel's stock price has fallen steadily over the past 12 months (high 30s to mid 20s), while AMD's hovered around 15 for the first six months, dropped along with Intel, then shot up to the low 20s in the past few weeks.
My vote for #8 is the increasingly common practice of clearing login name and password fields when a page has finished loading. Almost as bad is the practice of simply setting the focus to the login name field. I don't know how many times part of my password starts showing up in the name field because I've started typing before the page has finished loading.
Not only that, but really ancient Greek could be written in "boustrophedon" (lit. "as the cow moves") style--that is, in either direction!
SOATYPICALSENTENCEWOULDREADLIKETHIS!SIHTEKILDAERDLUOWENOTXENEHTDNA
Or in Alexandria, where the new headquarters were recently completed.
If you think that that's big, you should check out the Kupgal Hill in India, a Stone Age (no pun intended) grove of boulders that were used as enormous drums by an ancient culture.