Not sure what you're smoking, but I'd give credit for the GUI to Alan Key of PARC, and Engelbart was also at the Xerox PARC for invention of the mouse, so credit goes there in both cases.
I worked at HP making drivers and whatnot several years ago. I was there at the time Carly took over until about a year or two afterwards. I can tell you from my experience at HP that she was quite unpopular among the employees, at least around the time I left. A big part of Fiorina getting the axe I am sure is not only because of stock performance, but because she took so much away from the family that was HP and showed nothing positive for it.
Before she took over, the company was very family-oriented, as you would expect since it was family-owned. I loved going to work because I realized that the kind of work atmosphere we had at HP was very rare. There were a couple of policies that employees somewhat questioned that were family-oriented, for instance having to take a mandatory day off, I believe it was every couple weeks. Obviously there were a few grumbles from some over losing money since they could be working. But overall looking past specific policies, there was an overall feeling of appreciation for the top of HP management for creating such a caring work environment. There was just an atmosphere there that didn't just appear overnight, it was the result of careful planning by those in upper management.
Folks loved working at HP, and it showed in the turnover rate, which was stunningly low. This was worn as a badge of pride by the company.
Enter Carly Fiorina. Look at this turnover rate, it's terrible! We need it to go way up, to cycle new people and new ideas in! Day off every two weeks, that's ridiculous, let's get rid of that as well as cut back paid vacation and benefits to help push up the turnover rate! Firings, and resignations sure did lead to a higher turnover rate. HP stopped being HP. Instead of being a very special place to work for, it was suddenly Just Another Corporation. I left a little later, not with the new company environment as the reason, but at that point I was not sad to say goodbye.
The thing is, Carly took that spirit away from the company, she took away that something very special about HP that made it a privilige to work there, all the while promising results that never materialized. Had HP skyrocketed, few would have complained, but no - she took all these intangibles away, and all the company had to show for it was poor performance. She was a poor leader and a bad decision-maker. The Compaq thing and lack of results afterwards was just the straw that broke the camel's back.
Thanks, I got a good laugh from that =D. In all seriousness though, the paper was pretty worthless outside of the class so I don't have any reason to suspect foul play:)
I can understand the commenting thing, that makes sense and seems like a good way to give feedback. In this case though I never got feedback. I'm not as cynical as the fellow who replied above you, partially because the content of my assignment wouldn't really serve any purpose outside of that paper and that class, as far as I can see. And I know the professor and he seems to be generally a good guy, just maybe not all that tech savvy.
On the WordPerfect converter thing, thanks for the heads up. I did a little more researching and Googling on the subject and found that there is indeed a WordPerfect filter for OO.o that can be found here. Actually that site is the Sourceforge page for a multipurpose WP-converter library, and they happened to make plugin for OO.o out of it. Just wanted to relay that for anyone in a similar situtation as me, who happens to read this deep into the discussion:).
Had a similar experience at school. For one particular assignment, the professor required us to email a paper to him. He gave no indication as to what format he would prefer it be in, so after thinking a second I saved my paper as a PDF and emailed it, figuring that no matter what he should be able to read it (and would be safer, etc, etc). Later the same day I got a reply - he asked me to resend my paper as a Word or WordPerfect document because "they are easier to work with". I don't know what he was going to be doing with the paper that made it easier to "work with" in these formats, but I just gritted my teeth and resent it as a.doc.
Another class, same semester. The professor sent out a piece of required reading through email. The format? A.wpd WordPerfect document of all things. Unfortunately OpenOffice.org couldn't convert it (or maybe it could, but I couldn't figure out how to do it) and I had to take the WordPerfect file to a Windows PC in order to read it, all the while mentally cursing my professor for forcing me to rely on Microsoft in any way.
I think this reliance on proprietary formats can be attributed almost completely to ignorance. I am working to institute some kind of computer policy at my university in which professors receive some small training in dealing with different formats, and calls for them to use standard and open formats when giving out and asking for assignments electronically. Hopefully we'll see a little progress at least in my neck of the woods.
This was a great processor that still keeps ticking. I've got a PII 266Mhz machine running Slackware that I'm still using as a firewall, proxy server, file server, and game server. I'll take one of these solid well designed CPUs from back when they really knew how to make them anyday over stuff on the market now. RIP Pentium II, you will be missed.
But we do a fine job of not mentioning the genocide of Native Americans
I know I'm going further off topic here, but a primary difference between that situation and the present one is that we didn't pass laws saying it was illegal to talk about the Native American abuses; for whatever reason - probably ignorance - it just hasn't gotten the attention it should have. I'd call it a sin of omission, which isn't any good either, but different from what we're talking about here.
Hmmmm so if I read you right here, people blocking intrusive ads and popups will lead to the destruction of the internet as we know it. That's a slippery slope argument and it isn't gonna fly.
When a web page is downloaded onto my hard drive, it becomes my personal property and I will do with it as I please. If I don't want to be bothered to "click the monkey", I won't because that page is now mine and if I don't want to see the damn monkey, I will block him. If I don't want to read patent ads at the top of slashdot, then they don't show up either because once that perl-produced collection of text and images is put on my personal computer, it is now my content and no fearmongering internet armageddon theory will make that fact go away.
The internet isn't servers and clients, it's people and ultimately the people will be the ones to decide the spirit of the Web.
Could someone explain how this browser is different from Firefox? I'm pretty happy with Firefox, but should I upgrade to Mozilla Sunbird now? Any new features of note?
This isn't a first - the Hitara 3800 series came out about six months ago, which can do everything this device Avaya, Motorola and Proxim "invented" does. And for fans of open source, it runs Linux, not M$ crap. Having looked at specs for both devices, the Hitara certainly seems to have better pipeline architechture as well. Another example of open source and open engineering processes leading to better designed hardware.
This raises interesting ethical questions. If our guesses based on the pictures are right, and there are the building blocks of life down there, do we have any right to interfere with that process? Undoubtably we are going to do something while "studying" this that causes the process to go all wrong (or not happen at all) like a satellite hitting the surface and contaminating the moon, causing these building blocks to not form (flash backs of the last episode of ST:TNG).
That's not going to come out until approximately the same time the Sun becomes a cold, dark chunk of coal
Yours is a fine example of the pervasive elitism here that forces me to vomit. Taking an article about Debian Linux and using it as a platform to roll out the FUD machine for your own political agenda.
Since you brought up cold, dark chunks of coal, I suggest you pull that cold, dark chunk of coal that sits atop your shoulders out of your behind, and for five seconds stop endorsing the rampant fearmongering that if left unchecked could lead to the death of open source.
One of the students on the project is actually the kid of an old friend of mine. In case you're wondering, the Linux system they are using is a custom system based on the Gentoo-HA (High Availability) distribution. In addition to parking cars, the optimized P4 box is also allegedly used for many games of Quake.:)
Also, according to my friend, large quantities of pizza were consumed as an essential part of this project.
I live in Cedar Rapids and participated in the program. I didn't RTFA so I'm not sure what it says about this, but the mailer I got a couple days ago didn't say anything about a complaint, it just basically said Alliant had met its goals for the program ahead of schedule, and after working out a few issues there is a possibility the system may be implemented on a larger scale.
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Not sure what you're smoking, but I'd give credit for the GUI to Alan Key of PARC, and Engelbart was also at the Xerox PARC for invention of the mouse, so credit goes there in both cases.
I worked at HP making drivers and whatnot several years ago. I was there at the time Carly took over until about a year or two afterwards. I can tell you from my experience at HP that she was quite unpopular among the employees, at least around the time I left. A big part of Fiorina getting the axe I am sure is not only because of stock performance, but because she took so much away from the family that was HP and showed nothing positive for it.
Before she took over, the company was very family-oriented, as you would expect since it was family-owned. I loved going to work because I realized that the kind of work atmosphere we had at HP was very rare. There were a couple of policies that employees somewhat questioned that were family-oriented, for instance having to take a mandatory day off, I believe it was every couple weeks. Obviously there were a few grumbles from some over losing money since they could be working. But overall looking past specific policies, there was an overall feeling of appreciation for the top of HP management for creating such a caring work environment. There was just an atmosphere there that didn't just appear overnight, it was the result of careful planning by those in upper management.
Folks loved working at HP, and it showed in the turnover rate, which was stunningly low. This was worn as a badge of pride by the company.
Enter Carly Fiorina. Look at this turnover rate, it's terrible! We need it to go way up, to cycle new people and new ideas in! Day off every two weeks, that's ridiculous, let's get rid of that as well as cut back paid vacation and benefits to help push up the turnover rate! Firings, and resignations sure did lead to a higher turnover rate. HP stopped being HP. Instead of being a very special place to work for, it was suddenly Just Another Corporation. I left a little later, not with the new company environment as the reason, but at that point I was not sad to say goodbye.
The thing is, Carly took that spirit away from the company, she took away that something very special about HP that made it a privilige to work there, all the while promising results that never materialized. Had HP skyrocketed, few would have complained, but no - she took all these intangibles away, and all the company had to show for it was poor performance. She was a poor leader and a bad decision-maker. The Compaq thing and lack of results afterwards was just the straw that broke the camel's back.
Thanks, I got a good laugh from that =D. In all seriousness though, the paper was pretty worthless outside of the class so I don't have any reason to suspect foul play :)
I can understand the commenting thing, that makes sense and seems like a good way to give feedback. In this case though I never got feedback. I'm not as cynical as the fellow who replied above you, partially because the content of my assignment wouldn't really serve any purpose outside of that paper and that class, as far as I can see. And I know the professor and he seems to be generally a good guy, just maybe not all that tech savvy.
:).
On the WordPerfect converter thing, thanks for the heads up. I did a little more researching and Googling on the subject and found that there is indeed a WordPerfect filter for OO.o that can be found here. Actually that site is the Sourceforge page for a multipurpose WP-converter library, and they happened to make plugin for OO.o out of it. Just wanted to relay that for anyone in a similar situtation as me, who happens to read this deep into the discussion
Had a similar experience at school. For one particular assignment, the professor required us to email a paper to him. He gave no indication as to what format he would prefer it be in, so after thinking a second I saved my paper as a PDF and emailed it, figuring that no matter what he should be able to read it (and would be safer, etc, etc). Later the same day I got a reply - he asked me to resend my paper as a Word or WordPerfect document because "they are easier to work with". I don't know what he was going to be doing with the paper that made it easier to "work with" in these formats, but I just gritted my teeth and resent it as a .doc.
.wpd WordPerfect document of all things. Unfortunately OpenOffice.org couldn't convert it (or maybe it could, but I couldn't figure out how to do it) and I had to take the WordPerfect file to a Windows PC in order to read it, all the while mentally cursing my professor for forcing me to rely on Microsoft in any way.
Another class, same semester. The professor sent out a piece of required reading through email. The format? A
I think this reliance on proprietary formats can be attributed almost completely to ignorance. I am working to institute some kind of computer policy at my university in which professors receive some small training in dealing with different formats, and calls for them to use standard and open formats when giving out and asking for assignments electronically. Hopefully we'll see a little progress at least in my neck of the woods.
This was a great processor that still keeps ticking. I've got a PII 266Mhz machine running Slackware that I'm still using as a firewall, proxy server, file server, and game server. I'll take one of these solid well designed CPUs from back when they really knew how to make them anyday over stuff on the market now. RIP Pentium II, you will be missed.
But we do a fine job of not mentioning the genocide of Native Americans
I know I'm going further off topic here, but a primary difference between that situation and the present one is that we didn't pass laws saying it was illegal to talk about the Native American abuses; for whatever reason - probably ignorance - it just hasn't gotten the attention it should have. I'd call it a sin of omission, which isn't any good either, but different from what we're talking about here.
Hmmmm so if I read you right here, people blocking intrusive ads and popups will lead to the destruction of the internet as we know it. That's a slippery slope argument and it isn't gonna fly.
When a web page is downloaded onto my hard drive, it becomes my personal property and I will do with it as I please. If I don't want to be bothered to "click the monkey", I won't because that page is now mine and if I don't want to see the damn monkey, I will block him. If I don't want to read patent ads at the top of slashdot, then they don't show up either because once that perl-produced collection of text and images is put on my personal computer, it is now my content and no fearmongering internet armageddon theory will make that fact go away.
The internet isn't servers and clients, it's people and ultimately the people will be the ones to decide the spirit of the Web.
Could someone explain how this browser is different from Firefox? I'm pretty happy with Firefox, but should I upgrade to Mozilla Sunbird now? Any new features of note?
That post sucked but at least it's not in DOOM BEIGE...or is it?
This isn't a first - the Hitara 3800 series came out about six months ago, which can do everything this device Avaya, Motorola and Proxim "invented" does. And for fans of open source, it runs Linux, not M$ crap. Having looked at specs for both devices, the Hitara certainly seems to have better pipeline architechture as well. Another example of open source and open engineering processes leading to better designed hardware.
I didn't RTFA, could somebody quick recap how it is you can turn a PocketPC into an iPod? What is the point of doing this, exactly?
Actually, that was my post that I AC'd. It is an interesting point, don't I deserve a chance to get some karma for it this time?
This raises interesting ethical questions. If our guesses based on the pictures are right, and there are the building blocks of life down there, do we have any right to interfere with that process? Undoubtably we are going to do something while "studying" this that causes the process to go all wrong (or not happen at all) like a satellite hitting the surface and contaminating the moon, causing these building blocks to not form (flash backs of the last episode of ST:TNG).
That's not going to come out until approximately the same time the Sun becomes a cold, dark chunk of coal
Yours is a fine example of the pervasive elitism here that forces me to vomit. Taking an article about Debian Linux and using it as a platform to roll out the FUD machine for your own political agenda.
Since you brought up cold, dark chunks of coal, I suggest you pull that cold, dark chunk of coal that sits atop your shoulders out of your behind, and for five seconds stop endorsing the rampant fearmongering that if left unchecked could lead to the death of open source.
One of the students on the project is actually the kid of an old friend of mine. In case you're wondering, the Linux system they are using is a custom system based on the Gentoo-HA (High Availability) distribution. In addition to parking cars, the optimized P4 box is also allegedly used for many games of Quake. :)
Also, according to my friend, large quantities of pizza were consumed as an essential part of this project.
I live in Cedar Rapids and participated in the program. I didn't RTFA so I'm not sure what it says about this, but the mailer I got a couple days ago didn't say anything about a complaint, it just basically said Alliant had met its goals for the program ahead of schedule, and after working out a few issues there is a possibility the system may be implemented on a larger scale.