And not only computers. Unless you have very expensive furniture, buying stuff new at the local rates might be cheaper as well then shipping.
My parents went from Northern to Southern Europe. If they would do it again, they would sell everything and buy new.
Look at what you pay and what you WOULD pay for it where you are going. Remember also that you are shipping second hand stuff and there is something refreshing to have everything new when you start over in a new country.
I have had a situation where the outcome was absolutely not what I expected. I would have needed about 25% more FTE then what I would expect with my experience.
I checked and rechecked again and still came up with the same information.
Instead of getting the extra 25% people in, I decided to do all the calculations on paper AND give it to two other people to go over it to find out where I went wrong.
Eventually I got the correct number that was close to what I expected it to be and we also found the error I initially made. There is one thing that no tool has: experience. If you blindly follow your tool, you are a tool. You are one of the people who drives into the river because your GPS tells you to go left.
In Belgium where I work, we work 7.5 hours per day. From 9 till 12 and 12:30 till 17:00. In the morning and in the afternoon I get 10 minutes of break time.
This is not only me, this is the whole country (and probably the whole EU). So we stop working every few hours and go out. Some go out for a smoke. Some go out and eat chocolate cake and some go out and stare at their phone. As long as you get back in time, nobody cares. My of my cow orkers go along with the smokers when they take their 10 minute break.
Is is my and everybody else break and we are free to do whatever we like (Within reason. We can't have sex on the copier.).
So to me the problem seems to be not so much the smokers, but the fact that you are not allowed to take a break for 8 hours.
And talking about addictions. We have more problems with people not being allowed to Internet nor using their phones and they must wait for 2 hours so they can get online with their phone then we have with the smokers who need to wait 2 hours.
It's not a problem when you Facebook every now and then (at least it's not my problem when you don't do it during working hours), but if you can't survive without Facebook for 8 hours that's a serious addiction.
So? I live in Europe and do the same for longer distances. However not all trips are that long. Do you know how I get to that airport? By train.
From 621M (1000KM) on I will start looking if train or plane is more interesting. And even then it might be a combination. It will depend on several factors.
I also sometimes drive 1000+KM. One trip I made was 2500KM.
People I know would take a train, where I would take a plane and the other way around for various reasons. Sometimes the trip is more important then the arrival.
But what is more important to me is not if the plane, train, boat, car, bike or donkey is better for everybody. For me what is important is that I have a choice.
People here often think in one or zero. If there are two options, they think it is yes or no. this OR that. black OR white. True OR False. Asking the OR question is like asking when somebody stopped hitting their wife. SO ask the question correctly with Logical connective
This means there is more then just OR. At least you can also use AND, NOT and NOR
Look at this: Do you want to have your right knee shot OR your left one?
When Jobs died, he was compared to Edison and Henry Ford and to Disney
These guys became popular because they provided something GOOD AND CHEAP to the masses - light, cars, culture.
Let me thing what comes to mind when I hear these three names. Henry Ford: Letting people do monotonous work in factories to produce something in only one colour. Check. Thomas Edison: Using his patents to push others out of business. Check Walt Disney: Stealing other peoples ideas, then claiming them as his own so nobody can EVER use them. Check.
And funny that you put the word cheap in uppercase when you talk about products and Steve Jobs.
Do you really think they care or take trying anything else?
It still amazes me that people here think that cyber criminals are some sort of super efficient people who want to try to have a hit each and every time.
People like this are like spammers. They are not interested in how many say no, as long as enough say yes. They will just start dialing and get as many as possible.
If they get many from a large ISP that is more likely because they are a large ISP and not anything else. People who are with the smaller ISPs are smart enough to just hang up.
Somebody I know is a jaw surgeon and he HATES the helmets. Where people otherwise fall at night (driving home drunk) wither the brain surgeon had to be called or the coroner, now he has to get out of bed, because the fall on their head made them save their brain, but the strap broke their jaw.
Others that would have fallen otherwise with nothing but a few bruises now also get their jaws dislocated or worse.
Now what you are talking about is sport or recreational activity and you should have worn a helmet. What all the others are talking about is commuting from home to work or driving to the store.
Just because F1 and Nascar racers have all the security measures they have does not mean I have to have a 6 point safety belt AND a helmet AND a roll cage AND whatever else they have in my car when I drive to work,.
And just because something happens to you does not qualify you. I have gravity happening to me all the time. I hardly qualify to talk about it. If anything, you will have a strong opinion about it, just like people who stopped smoking are more opinionated then people who never smoked.
I have fallen from my bike a lot of times. Also on sudden stops caused e.g. a bag in my front wheel. A car, People. If anything it makes me clear that you talking about your 10 speed bike and what happened means you were not going very slow. If you are stupid enough to go high speed on a dark road, why not try running with your eyes closed.
XFCE user here. 3 different monitors of different sizes. 2 different video cards. No Xinerama and no seperate X screens, so I can switch workspaces on the other screens individually. Others who would like Xinerama can have that as well. I have connected 4 monitors as well. I can line them up any way I like. e.g. with 4, ---, L, +, T, reversed T. Space in between or connected. The limit in screens is pure hardware. Adding cards would mean the ability to adding monitors. I will soon be adding a 4th monitor and am looking at adding another video card and 2 more monitors.
Yep, it does not work in KDE or in GNOME how _I_ want it to run in the 5 minutes I tried, because it seems that they both handle things as one big screen (in any order) and I want my separate X sessions. Otherwise that would be working too. Screen-shot from an older setup. The image is from 2006. Two identical screens there. http://houghi.org/shots/dualscreen.jpg
I have been doing multiple screens since around 1998. All with GUI software to make it easy for me and no manual editing of xorg.conf. All in Linux.
I think the truth of the matter is that pornography only really attracts those who have been unable to find anything better in their lives, which is really sad. Pornography seems always to be disappointing - plasticky looking Ken and Barbie types mechanically doing things and looking utterly bored.
I think the truth of the matter is that movies only really attracts those who have been unable to find anything better in their lives, which is really sad. Movies seems always to be disappointing - plasticky looking Ken and Barbie types mechanically doing things and looking utterly bored.
Do understand that this is not the only brewery doing this. Many of the large breweries do this. Stella Artois also does this. Also many brewers don't, but then in Belgium we use cherries in the beer making process for some.
When people talk about beer, many think of beer only being allowed to be brewed according to the Reinheitsgebot which is not true. Others just think of pilsner.
People do not look for 'search' and then find google. People google it. People will use 'search' if they want something else then google. They are already at google, so they will not select that.
Searches are related to what people search for and to what it is linked to. So to me it is logical that googleling for 'search' won't show google.
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Why not let the person you knew arrested as well? Either he did not do something bad and should go free or he did and should be arrested.
You have a two party system and you think that 435 is not enough?
Multiple parties should be the first step.
And not only computers. Unless you have very expensive furniture, buying stuff new at the local rates might be cheaper as well then shipping.
My parents went from Northern to Southern Europe. If they would do it again, they would sell everything and buy new.
Look at what you pay and what you WOULD pay for it where you are going. Remember also that you are shipping second hand stuff and there is something refreshing to have everything new when you start over in a new country.
I'm colorblind, you insensitive clod.
I thought I would never see the day that /. asks for marketing people to step in and save the day.
Bet Beelzebub is learning to play broomball.
I have had a situation where the outcome was absolutely not what I expected. I would have needed about 25% more FTE then what I would expect with my experience.
I checked and rechecked again and still came up with the same information.
Instead of getting the extra 25% people in, I decided to do all the calculations on paper AND give it to two other people to go over it to find out where I went wrong.
Eventually I got the correct number that was close to what I expected it to be and we also found the error I initially made. There is one thing that no tool has: experience.
If you blindly follow your tool, you are a tool. You are one of the people who drives into the river because your GPS tells you to go left.
In Belgium where I work, we work 7.5 hours per day. From 9 till 12 and 12:30 till 17:00. In the morning and in the afternoon I get 10 minutes of break time.
This is not only me, this is the whole country (and probably the whole EU). So we stop working every few hours and go out. Some go out for a smoke. Some go out and eat chocolate cake and some go out and stare at their phone. As long as you get back in time, nobody cares. My of my cow orkers go along with the smokers when they take their 10 minute break.
Is is my and everybody else break and we are free to do whatever we like (Within reason. We can't have sex on the copier.).
So to me the problem seems to be not so much the smokers, but the fact that you are not allowed to take a break for 8 hours.
And talking about addictions. We have more problems with people not being allowed to Internet nor using their phones and they must wait for 2 hours so they can get online with their phone then we have with the smokers who need to wait 2 hours.
It's not a problem when you Facebook every now and then (at least it's not my problem when you don't do it during working hours), but if you can't survive without Facebook for 8 hours that's a serious addiction.
I just looked at Netcraft, but I saw nothing confirmed, so how "official" is it?
So? I live in Europe and do the same for longer distances. However not all trips are that long. Do you know how I get to that airport? By train.
From 621M (1000KM) on I will start looking if train or plane is more interesting. And even then it might be a combination. It will depend on several factors.
I also sometimes drive 1000+KM. One trip I made was 2500KM.
People I know would take a train, where I would take a plane and the other way around for various reasons. Sometimes the trip is more important then the arrival.
But what is more important to me is not if the plane, train, boat, car, bike or donkey is better for everybody. For me what is important is that I have a choice.
People here often think in one or zero. If there are two options, they think it is yes or no. this OR that. black OR white. True OR False. Asking the OR question is like asking when somebody stopped hitting their wife. SO ask the question correctly with Logical connective
This means there is more then just OR. At least you can also use AND, NOT and NOR
Look at this: Do you want to have your right knee shot OR your left one?
Reading /. during your job: NSFW
I would think that people nowadays are aware that links might contain content their company will not be happy about.
If you work for a company that fires people because of this, don't use their network for private surfing.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla
Let me thing what comes to mind when I hear these three names.
Henry Ford: Letting people do monotonous work in factories to produce something in only one colour. Check.
Thomas Edison: Using his patents to push others out of business. Check
Walt Disney: Stealing other peoples ideas, then claiming them as his own so nobody can EVER use them. Check.
And funny that you put the word cheap in uppercase when you talk about products and Steve Jobs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_dialing
Do you really think they care or take trying anything else?
It still amazes me that people here think that cyber criminals are some sort of super efficient people who want to try to have a hit each and every time.
People like this are like spammers. They are not interested in how many say no, as long as enough say yes. They will just start dialing and get as many as possible.
If they get many from a large ISP that is more likely because they are a large ISP and not anything else. People who are with the smaller ISPs are smart enough to just hang up.
The thing is, they are not interested in creating great apps. They just want to sell the hardware.
Somebody I know is a jaw surgeon and he HATES the helmets. Where people otherwise fall at night (driving home drunk) wither the brain surgeon had to be called or the coroner, now he has to get out of bed, because the fall on their head made them save their brain, but the strap broke their jaw.
Others that would have fallen otherwise with nothing but a few bruises now also get their jaws dislocated or worse.
Now what you are talking about is sport or recreational activity and you should have worn a helmet. What all the others are talking about is commuting from home to work or driving to the store.
Just because F1 and Nascar racers have all the security measures they have does not mean I have to have a 6 point safety belt AND a helmet AND a roll cage AND whatever else they have in my car when I drive to work,.
And just because something happens to you does not qualify you. I have gravity happening to me all the time. I hardly qualify to talk about it. If anything, you will have a strong opinion about it, just like people who stopped smoking are more opinionated then people who never smoked.
I have fallen from my bike a lot of times. Also on sudden stops caused e.g. a bag in my front wheel. A car, People. If anything it makes me clear that you talking about your 10 speed bike and what happened means you were not going very slow. If you are stupid enough to go high speed on a dark road, why not try running with your eyes closed.
100+ms latency? Who cars when you have robots on mars that you control.
XFCE user here. 3 different monitors of different sizes. 2 different video cards. No Xinerama and no seperate X screens, so I can switch workspaces on the other screens individually. Others who would like Xinerama can have that as well. I have connected 4 monitors as well. I can line them up any way I like. e.g. with 4, ---, L, +, T, reversed T. Space in between or connected.
The limit in screens is pure hardware. Adding cards would mean the ability to adding monitors.
I will soon be adding a 4th monitor and am looking at adding another video card and 2 more monitors.
Yep, it does not work in KDE or in GNOME how _I_ want it to run in the 5 minutes I tried, because it seems that they both handle things as one big screen (in any order) and I want my separate X sessions. Otherwise that would be working too.
Screen-shot from an older setup. The image is from 2006. Two identical screens there. http://houghi.org/shots/dualscreen.jpg
I have been doing multiple screens since around 1998. All with GUI software to make it easy for me and no manual editing of xorg.conf. All in Linux.
Many beers use rice in their recipe. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser_(Anheuser-Busch) : It is made with up to 30% rice in addition to hops and barley malt
Do understand that this is not the only brewery doing this. Many of the large breweries do this. Stella Artois also does this. Also many brewers don't, but then in Belgium we use cherries in the beer making process for some.
When people talk about beer, many think of beer only being allowed to be brewed according to the Reinheitsgebot which is not true. Others just think of pilsner.
Some more information on
this page
Apparently 10 deaths.
Apple? Big Brother?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8&feature=related
And the Think Different! adds are very Monthy Python to me.
We are all different. I am not
People do not look for 'search' and then find google. People google it.
People will use 'search' if they want something else then google. They are already at google, so they will not select that.
Searches are related to what people search for and to what it is linked to. So to me it is logical that googleling for 'search' won't show google.
On top of noscript and adblock, I block complete domains with http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
And I also edit the css of the most visited websites with http://userstyles.org/
They worry about that later. The most important part is that they have the data.