Just for the record, saying "Android and iOS are great consumers of content but they're terrible producers" because of issues with capturing text is missing the forest for the trees.
Graphic artists are having a field day with tablets, and for many musicians, an iPad is the greatest invention since..... ever.
The idea that tablets are for consumption and not production *really* needs to die. As a songwriter, I've never been so productive.
It's not entirely germane to the OP, but it needed to be said.
I have spent years using Solaris, Redhat, Gentoo, Windows 2.0 through the present, etc. I've been at a computer pretty much 11-16 hours a day for the past 20+ years.
The last 5 have been on OSX, and I'm not going back to any of them. You can't make me.
I've been experimenting with Unity, and hate it quite passionately.
There are no words to describe the increase in your quality of life when you remove the commute. None. You'll be in awe of what life is actually like.
Definitely don't burn bridges, and handle it as responsibly as possible, but opportunities are opportunities, and you need to take the good ones when they come up.
Your job is not your life, your life is not your job.
I listen to sounds of nature on my headphones at work. I use a program called Ambiance (Adobe Air app) that lets me mix various field recordings, which keeps me more alert than coffee, and drowns out the blabbering of my cubicle neighbors. It also helps my mood, as it usually sounds like a Spring afternoon.
This has me thinking -- can I add some sort of lights source into my headphones? They're full ear-covering headphones, so I could produce a lot of light in them without affecting those around me, or much of it leaking out.
Does anyone know of a decent small, battery-powered light source I could do some testing with?
"Politicians who supported the industry had tried for years to exempt fracking from the Safe Drinking Water Act, the 1974 law that regulates the injection of waste and chemicals underground. The EPA's 2004 study was used to justify that effort. With the help of then-Vice President Dick Cheney -- the former head of Halliburton -- President George W. Bush's landmark energy legislation, the 2005 Energy Policy Act, included a provision that prohibited the EPA from regulating fracking under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Regulation would be left to the states, many of which had underfunded agencies, looser standards and less manpower than the federal government."
Thank God Halliburton had a Vice-President in the White House, eh?
All this is going to do is give the assholes who want to lock down the internet more reason for doing so.
When douchebags start screwing around, freedoms disappear left and right. Just watch the legislation that grows out of this, we'll be lucky if we can still get email that isn't from the government in 5 years.
I can't imagine the volume of data that the intelligence agencies must weed through, especially if they're monitoring text or voice-to-text.
Skipping over things like "beat some sense into him," or "bringing a knife to a gun fight," or the somewhat infamous "O'Keeffe & Company delivers a rifle shot at critical business, technology, and investment audiences," or even just flagging them as possible metaphors, would be incredibly helpful.
I can only imagine how difficult this would be when monitoring other cultures, languages, idioms, etc. I hope they make this database public, although it's a dim hope. It'd be a great trove of cultural information for the entire planet, not just intelligence agencies.
2005? I remember asking this question in 2000, when I got my first Kyocera Smartphone. Hell, even before that I had a modem for my Palm 5 running ttssh.
I remember finding a quiet spot at the Hammerstein Ballroom during a String Cheese Incident show to log into the servers @ Exodus and restart the AFS server, then all of the WebLogic boxes on my palm pilot.
It seemed so esoteric then, these days it's just quaint.
Bug priorities aren't determined by users, they're determined by whatever the developers care about.
Chrome intermittently just *won't* show some checkboxes, and the bug was reported a year ago. It's currently at 5 pages of complaints without a single word from the G.
It's caused some pretty serious issues for users, but noone seems to care. Yes, Chrome is still listed as "beta," but that will most likely still be the case 5 years from now as well. Paypal checkboxes not showing up can be a very bad thing. Sometimes it even occurs with GMail....
I've got a desktop in the basement with just a vga cable, usb cable and audio coming up through the floor. This way he (and, more importantly, his 2 year-old brother) can't damage the CD drive, etc. Tray-loading drives are immensely popular with the "break things" set.
He spends the vast majority of his computer time in Chrome, at:
We also have 2-3 Dora games installed, as well as a Cool School keyboard, which came with some very cool games. Amazon carries them, and eBay has quite a few for cheap.
He loves Photobooth on my macbook, so I found Snap, and set up a webcam for him to make crazy pictures of himself and his brother.
Also, I would make sure that there's an easy-to-find shortcut to good ol' Paint. He loves playing with it, and it's one of the more creative things he can do, rather than just doing what a game or a website tells him to.
...can use a package database that is 3 years behind everything else, starting today.
Nothing worse than having a production system that you can't update without ripping everything out and compiling from scratch, which, really, you should've just done in the first place.
RedHat: Providing The Pain So You Can Learn Your Lessons
Unless, of course, you're unlucky enough to work for a company that licences RHEL, in which case the pain will just keep on coming for decades.
And no, I'm in no way related to the development or publishing of the app, I just find it funny that they would crack down on someone using twitter for this when there are full-blown apps to handle it.
A startup that I worked for hired a new CFO, apparently based on the fact that he had been CFO of Spyglass. Apparently, noone had heard this story yet....
At one point, just before we went under, he was being paid some ludicrous amount of money to drive his company car to CostCo to pick up cases of soda for our "free soda" fridge, as a cost-cutting measure.
That's pretty much when Ritalin use in "rambunctious" children began to skyrocket.
As an adult with ADD, I can tell you for certain that Ritalin squelches creativity. I am a musician, and when I'm steadily taking the pills I always see a marked decline in my songwriting and recording.
It's often the more creative kids that get diagnosed as ADD as well.
Vicious cycle, America. Learn to teach creative, energetic kids, and we'll stay on top. Start turning them into rank-and-file automatons and this is what you get.
Well, I *do* have neighbors, but they're over 300 yards away.
Every night at 10:15-10:45, my wifi craps out and needs to be restarted. It's gotten to the point that I've got it on an x10 controller that I can use with a remote.
It's the *only* thing in the house using x10. We don't have a microwave. Noone is on the phone. The TV has been on for hours at that point.
I'm going to try changing channels, but still, it's quite weird. Restarting the wifi takes care of it, I don't have to restart the cable modem. It's a horrible d-link device (dir-628) that I would never buy again.
Slashdot Mirror
Just for the record, saying "Android and iOS are great consumers of content but they're terrible producers" because of issues with capturing text is missing the forest for the trees.
Graphic artists are having a field day with tablets, and for many musicians, an iPad is the greatest invention since..... ever.
The idea that tablets are for consumption and not production *really* needs to die. As a songwriter, I've never been so productive.
It's not entirely germane to the OP, but it needed to be said.
I have spent years using Solaris, Redhat, Gentoo, Windows 2.0 through the present, etc. I've been at a computer pretty much 11-16 hours a day for the past 20+ years.
The last 5 have been on OSX, and I'm not going back to any of them. You can't make me.
I've been experimenting with Unity, and hate it quite passionately.
...and shout, "Me too! Me too!"
There are no words to describe the increase in your quality of life when you remove the commute. None. You'll be in awe of what life is actually like.
Definitely don't burn bridges, and handle it as responsibly as possible, but opportunities are opportunities, and you need to take the good ones when they come up.
Your job is not your life, your life is not your job.
I see what you mean.
I listen to sounds of nature on my headphones at work. I use a program called Ambiance (Adobe Air app) that lets me mix various field recordings, which keeps me more alert than coffee, and drowns out the blabbering of my cubicle neighbors. It also helps my mood, as it usually sounds like a Spring afternoon.
This has me thinking -- can I add some sort of lights source into my headphones? They're full ear-covering headphones, so I could produce a lot of light in them without affecting those around me, or much of it leaking out.
Does anyone know of a decent small, battery-powered light source I could do some testing with?
"Politicians who supported the industry had tried for years to exempt fracking from the Safe Drinking Water Act, the 1974 law that regulates the injection of waste and chemicals underground. The EPA's 2004 study was used to justify that effort. With the help of then-Vice President Dick Cheney -- the former head of Halliburton -- President George W. Bush's landmark energy legislation, the 2005 Energy Policy Act, included a provision that prohibited the EPA from regulating fracking under the Safe Drinking Water Act. Regulation would be left to the states, many of which had underfunded agencies, looser standards and less manpower than the federal government."
Thank God Halliburton had a Vice-President in the White House, eh?
http://www.salon.com/technology/how_the_world_works/2011/06/27/hydrofracking_and_the_epa
Seriously... "But what happens when Google Docs gets truly robust enough for business and high-end document production?"
Uh, at that point the desktop is just a browser, and people can use a free operating system and a free browser to access it?
Web applications are good for Linux, not the enemy. Logic, it's your friend.
All this is going to do is give the assholes who want to lock down the internet more reason for doing so.
When douchebags start screwing around, freedoms disappear left and right. Just watch the legislation that grows out of this, we'll be lucky if we can still get email that isn't from the government in 5 years.
In before the war starts.
Please keep in mind people, they're just computers. Your choice isn't wrong, neither is the "other side's."
The only phrase stupider than "Drug War" is "OS Wars."
I can't imagine the volume of data that the intelligence agencies must weed through, especially if they're monitoring text or voice-to-text.
Skipping over things like "beat some sense into him," or "bringing a knife to a gun fight," or the somewhat infamous "O'Keeffe & Company delivers a rifle shot at critical business, technology, and investment audiences," or even just flagging them as possible metaphors, would be incredibly helpful.
I can only imagine how difficult this would be when monitoring other cultures, languages, idioms, etc. I hope they make this database public, although it's a dim hope. It'd be a great trove of cultural information for the entire planet, not just intelligence agencies.
"smartphones will become the primary means of in-car entertainment" ...and soon they will run on gas, and have steering wheels.
It's always nice when pundits predict stuff that's been happening for at least 5 years already.
2005? I remember asking this question in 2000, when I got my first Kyocera Smartphone. Hell, even before that I had a modem for my Palm 5 running ttssh.
I remember finding a quiet spot at the Hammerstein Ballroom during a String Cheese Incident show to log into the servers @ Exodus and restart the AFS server, then all of the WebLogic boxes on my palm pilot.
It seemed so esoteric then, these days it's just quaint.
Bug priorities aren't determined by users, they're determined by whatever the developers care about.
Chrome intermittently just *won't* show some checkboxes, and the bug was reported a year ago. It's currently at 5 pages of complaints without a single word from the G.
It's caused some pretty serious issues for users, but noone seems to care. Yes, Chrome is still listed as "beta," but that will most likely still be the case 5 years from now as well. Paypal checkboxes not showing up can be a very bad thing. Sometimes it even occurs with GMail....
I've got a desktop in the basement with just a vga cable, usb cable and audio coming up through the floor. This way he (and, more importantly, his 2 year-old brother) can't damage the CD drive, etc. Tray-loading drives are immensely popular with the "break things" set.
He spends the vast majority of his computer time in Chrome, at:
Starfall (by far my personal favorite, if you've got a toddler around, spend some quality Starfall time with them)
PBS Kids
Playhouse Disney
Nick Jr.
We also have 2-3 Dora games installed, as well as a Cool School keyboard, which came with some very cool games. Amazon carries them, and eBay has quite a few for cheap.
He loves Photobooth on my macbook, so I found Snap, and set up a webcam for him to make crazy pictures of himself and his brother.
Also, I would make sure that there's an easy-to-find shortcut to good ol' Paint. He loves playing with it, and it's one of the more creative things he can do, rather than just doing what a game or a website tells him to.
...can use a package database that is 3 years behind everything else, starting today.
Nothing worse than having a production system that you can't update without ripping everything out and compiling from scratch, which, really, you should've just done in the first place.
RedHat: Providing The Pain So You Can Learn Your Lessons
Unless, of course, you're unlucky enough to work for a company that licences RHEL, in which case the pain will just keep on coming for decades.
So their whole sample for this survey is a small group of users who are *already* using a cross-platform compiler.
Far from newsworthy this is misleading and bogus. Thanks, Slashdot.
I don't understand why this is bad. The main fear most parents have about their kids swearing is that OTHER PARENTS MIGHT FIND OUT.
They're just words, they're extremely useful, and people just need to chill the fuck out about it.
It's pretty handy to have:
http://www.trapster.com/
And no, I'm in no way related to the development or publishing of the app, I just find it funny that they would crack down on someone using twitter for this when there are full-blown apps to handle it.
A startup that I worked for hired a new CFO, apparently based on the fact that he had been CFO of Spyglass. Apparently, noone had heard this story yet....
At one point, just before we went under, he was being paid some ludicrous amount of money to drive his company car to CostCo to pick up cases of soda for our "free soda" fridge, as a cost-cutting measure.
"drive bay shooting"
I hate to admit it, but I LOLed.
That's pretty much when Ritalin use in "rambunctious" children began to skyrocket.
As an adult with ADD, I can tell you for certain that Ritalin squelches creativity. I am a musician, and when I'm steadily taking the pills I always see a marked decline in my songwriting and recording.
It's often the more creative kids that get diagnosed as ADD as well.
Vicious cycle, America. Learn to teach creative, energetic kids, and we'll stay on top. Start turning them into rank-and-file automatons and this is what you get.
Completely discounting Emergence because of the stupidity within the Fark community is...
Well, I guess it's redundant.
Well, I *do* have neighbors, but they're over 300 yards away.
Every night at 10:15-10:45, my wifi craps out and needs to be restarted. It's gotten to the point that I've got it on an x10 controller that I can use with a remote.
It's the *only* thing in the house using x10. We don't have a microwave. Noone is on the phone. The TV has been on for hours at that point.
I'm going to try changing channels, but still, it's quite weird. Restarting the wifi takes care of it, I don't have to restart the cable modem. It's a horrible d-link device (dir-628) that I would never buy again.
I'll pick up a Mini and an iPad.
Seems like an ideal combination.