I'm white, and people who are black come to me so I can figure out their phones for them. The trouble with mobiles is these damned black people don't know how to design a decent interface. Once you figure out that the phone is designed by someone with no sense of logic, it's a lot easier.
I'm male, and people who are female come to me so I can figure out their phones for them. The trouble with mobiles is these damned female people don't know how to design a decent interface. Once you figure out that the phone is designed by someone with no sense of logic, it's a lot easier.
I'm straight, and people who are gay come to me so I can figure out their phones for them. The trouble with mobiles is these damned gay people don't know how to design a decent interface. Once you figure out that the phone is designed by someone with no sense of logic, it's a lot easier.
I'm republican, and people who are democrats come to me so I can figure out their phones for them. The trouble with mobiles is these damned democrat people don't know how to design a decent interface. Once you figure out that the phone is designed by someone with no sense of logic, it's a lot easier.
I'm american, and people who are chinese come to me so I can figure out their phones for them. The trouble with mobiles is these damned chinese people don't know how to design a decent interface. Once you figure out that the phone is designed by someone with no sense of logic, it's a lot easier.
I'm macintosh, and people who are windows come to me so I can figure out their phones for them. The trouble with mobiles is these damned windows people don't know how to design a decent interface. Once you figure out that the phone is designed by someone with no sense of logic, it's a lot easier.
I'm middleclass, and people who are poor come to me so I can figure out their phones for them. The trouble with mobiles is these damned poor people don't know how to design a decent interface. Once you figure out that the phone is designed by someone with no sense of logic, it's a lot easier.
I'm employed, and people who are unemployed come to me so I can figure out their phones for them. The trouble with mobiles is these damned unemployed people don't know how to design a decent interface. Once you figure out that the phone is designed by someone with no sense of logic, it's a lot easier.
Age tells you very little about a person except the number of years since they left the uterus; it works well as an arbitrary distinctions between people and helps put them in the group "other". We need all the arbitrary distinctions we can get, cause we wouldn't want to be friends with anyone not like us?
I had several friends who got their start in IT by working for a newspaper in Las Vegas.
At one point, one of my friends (we'll call him Bob) figured out that he wanted to move from IT to being a writer for the paper. One of the senior writers took him aside and said "Bob, how many professional newspaper writers are there in the whole state of Nevada?". (The definition of professional writers being people who have a full time job writing for a paper.) The answer at the time was under a dozen. The next question was "Bob, how many DBAs are there in the state of Nevada?". Yes, Bob became a DBA.
If your local paper is just a bunch of macros that turn AP content and ads into something that can go to the press, don't feel bad about dropping support for the model. The same bullshit has happened to local TV, and local radio.
Newspapers, TV stations, radio stations, all think they're pulling a slick on on the consumer. But there is a limit what people are willing to pay for non-local content.
The newspapers need to get together with someone like Epson or HP, and establish standards for printing customized newspapers on the premise.
The little bit of value left in physical papers is the format, the style, and the physical copy. Even the web and e-readers are no replacement for a physical paper. A single column 8.5 x 11 print out on copier paper is no substitute either.
Instead the papers joust with the web? Yeah, good luck with that.
How much nroff and device independent code can it take to generate a nice paper for me each day?
We're hiring for positions approved before the hiring freeze. It feels like when its raining, and the sun is shining in from the side at the same time.
I'm working aggressively on improving my effectiveness in my current job, and also training on skills that will (hopefully) broaden my market appeal.
My employer is accelerating projects, knowing people have no option but to be quiet and get things done.
In the past, I would've bailed out of here when the first benefit cuts hit. These days, a perm job is worth two on dice.com.
I bought a WD TV Friday, and it is going back to Fry's tonight. The fact that it couldn't "aggregate" my mp3s or play back two thrids of my mst3k avi files was a deal breaker.
It also failed indicate what the problem was when I (unknowingly) tried to use a non-HDCP compliant HDMI cable. (It allows selecting upto 720p output on HDMI, but the configuration menu keeps reverting to showing "composite" as the display type.) I figured it out by swapping cables with my Philips (HDMI equipped) DVD player.
Remote sensitivity is marginal, response to button pushes is sluggish. Even though it is Linux based, WD went with a closed source video decoder chip, etc.
For whatever reason, very few manufacturers label chargers/power supplies in a way that makes it easy to tell which one goes with which device. (Especially after the charger/PS has spent some time in the plastic tub I store them in when not is use.)
The first thing I do when I unpack something new is grab a silver colored marker and jot the device description on the wall wart. That way I can go through the bin and find a supply labeled "Uniden WiFi Router" without needing to check the AC/DC/Voltage/Current/connector types.
1) They stopped shipping a C compiler with the SunOS. Frustrated people gradually moved to GCC. 2) They moved from BSD to SYS-V. Hey, all the other kids are doing it. 3) Linus wrote his kernel while reading the SunOS kernel API. 4) They spent years championing everything but PCI. 5) They spent millions trying to make IDE and NIC chipsets that sucked. Ooh, remember the Ultra5, and HME? 6) The spent years playng a peekaboo game of "Look NFS is standard, except only we have a lock daemon". 7) They spent years giving Veritas and Oracle blowjobs. If Solaris was a car, it would come without wheels. 8) They spent years smoking mental crack, and planning to dominate the desktop by making Java the dominant paradigm. (It looks painful, being thoroughly outmaneuvered my Microsoft.) 9) Cache RAM NDA fiasco? 10) ZFS is so great, we're giving it away. Wow excellent plan. XFS, JFS, ReiserFS, yup we need one more FS. 11) During all this dick fumbling time, *IBM* has gradually turned AIX/RT into something that eats a portion of Sun's lunch.
How do you guys keep morale up over there? Do you console yourself by saying, "Hey, at least we're more relevant than Novell?" or "Hey, Solaris is in better shape than OS/2?" or "Hey, HP completely dumped PA-RISC, and now their an Intel Junkie. ROFL"
How can so many smart people make so many stupid decisions, and keep from running a company completely in the ground? Are they flying by throwing themselves at the ground and missing?
The UNIX market, and arguably all modern OS business, was Sun's to loose. At this point, throwing one more thing out of the gondola isn't going to help. If you opensource everything tomorrow, is anyone really interested in taking you back?
Quick buy some Sun memorabilia before they become the next Intergraph/SGI/Sequent.
I think you're assuming that people aren't leveraged to the hilt. Continuing to pay for a big mortgage for a McMansion, the payments on a 40k$ SUV or super-truck, the payments on the wife's Volvo crossover, payments on a big screen plasma, a 200$ per month cable bill (gotta have NASCAR), 200$ per month of cellphone bills (gotta have my Razr), and the 5$ per gallon gas?
Even if you sell the SUV, still gotta have something to drive.
Chuckle. Bankruptcy and suicide rate will be up this year.
I have an 90 Metro parked on my RV pad. If fuel prices continue to climb, I may put the work into it to get it street-legal again. (Replace the catalytic converter, do a tune-up, etc.)
When I was younger, single, and wasn't the breadwinner responsible for a mortgage, I felt comfortable driving around in a slow, small, no-airbags car. These days, the Metro is one notch better than going down the road at 60 mph, naked in a shopping cart.
When SUVs are driven for fewer miles, and fewer people showing their asses in sporty cars, it may feel safe to drive the Metro again. Maybe.
Drive 40 miles to unload and ride bikes around a 3 mile loop? It may get to the point that people actually ride bikes in their own neighborhoods. (Gasp.)
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I'm white, and people who are black come to me so I can figure out their phones for them. The trouble with mobiles is these damned black people don't know how to design a decent interface. Once you figure out that the phone is designed by someone with no sense of logic, it's a lot easier.
I'm male, and people who are female come to me so I can figure out their phones for them. The trouble with mobiles is these damned female people don't know how to design a decent interface. Once you figure out that the phone is designed by someone with no sense of logic, it's a lot easier.
I'm straight, and people who are gay come to me so I can figure out their phones for them. The trouble with mobiles is these damned gay people don't know how to design a decent interface. Once you figure out that the phone is designed by someone with no sense of logic, it's a lot easier.
I'm republican, and people who are democrats come to me so I can figure out their phones for them. The trouble with mobiles is these damned democrat people don't know how to design a decent interface. Once you figure out that the phone is designed by someone with no sense of logic, it's a lot easier.
I'm american, and people who are chinese come to me so I can figure out their phones for them. The trouble with mobiles is these damned chinese people don't know how to design a decent interface. Once you figure out that the phone is designed by someone with no sense of logic, it's a lot easier.
I'm macintosh, and people who are windows come to me so I can figure out their phones for them. The trouble with mobiles is these damned windows people don't know how to design a decent interface. Once you figure out that the phone is designed by someone with no sense of logic, it's a lot easier.
I'm middleclass, and people who are poor come to me so I can figure out their phones for them. The trouble with mobiles is these damned poor people don't know how to design a decent interface. Once you figure out that the phone is designed by someone with no sense of logic, it's a lot easier.
I'm employed, and people who are unemployed come to me so I can figure out their phones for them. The trouble with mobiles is these damned unemployed people don't know how to design a decent interface. Once you figure out that the phone is designed by someone with no sense of logic, it's a lot easier.
Age tells you very little about a person except the number of years since they left the uterus; it works well as an arbitrary distinctions between people and helps put them in the group "other". We need all the arbitrary distinctions we can get, cause we wouldn't want to be friends with anyone not like us?
Unfortunately, as long as Joe Sixpack and Jeb Nascar continue to pay the monthly bill, Comcast isn't going anywhere.
They cut our coffee service at the end of the year, and the coffee makers have been hauled away.
I had a promo vacuum bottle that I got at a sales meeting, and now I'll be carrying home coffee to the office.
I want them to cut as many things as they can. It will make it easier to feel good about leaving when something better comes along.
If AT&T is going to all the trouble to get this approved, can we please get something better than an analog line with DTMF?
How about a camera phone? How about something smart enough to not ring if the person calling isn't someone I want to talk to?
Yes, and how long before Nintendo comes out with PornStar? You can imagine what the "instruments" will look like?
I had several friends who got their start in IT by working for a newspaper in Las Vegas.
At one point, one of my friends (we'll call him Bob) figured out that he wanted to move from IT to being a writer for the paper. One of the senior writers took him aside and said "Bob, how many professional newspaper writers are there in the whole state of Nevada?". (The definition of professional writers being people who have a full time job writing for a paper.) The answer at the time was under a dozen. The next question was "Bob, how many DBAs are there in the state of Nevada?". Yes, Bob became a DBA.
If your local paper is just a bunch of macros that turn AP content and ads into something that can go to the press, don't feel bad about dropping support for the model. The same bullshit has happened to local TV, and local radio.
Newspapers, TV stations, radio stations, all think they're pulling a slick on on the consumer. But there is a limit what people are willing to pay for non-local content.
I need to dig up a photo online. I keep getting the mental picture of the lab at the beginning of the ATHF episodes.
The newspapers need to get together with someone like Epson or HP, and establish standards for printing customized newspapers on the premise.
The little bit of value left in physical papers is the format, the style, and the physical copy. Even the web and e-readers are no replacement for a physical paper. A single column 8.5 x 11 print out on copier paper is no substitute either.
Instead the papers joust with the web? Yeah, good luck with that.
How much nroff and device independent code can it take to generate a nice paper for me each day?
We're hiring for positions approved before the hiring freeze. It feels like when its raining, and the sun is shining in from the side at the same time.
I'm working aggressively on improving my effectiveness in my current job, and also training on skills that will (hopefully) broaden my market appeal.
My employer is accelerating projects, knowing people have no option but to be quiet and get things done.
In the past, I would've bailed out of here when the first benefit cuts hit. These days, a perm job is worth two on dice.com.
I bought a WD TV Friday, and it is going back to Fry's tonight. The fact that it couldn't "aggregate" my mp3s or play back two thrids of my mst3k avi files was a deal breaker.
It also failed indicate what the problem was when I (unknowingly) tried to use a non-HDCP compliant HDMI cable. (It allows selecting upto 720p output on HDMI, but the configuration menu keeps reverting to showing "composite" as the display type.) I figured it out by swapping cables with my Philips (HDMI equipped) DVD player.
Remote sensitivity is marginal, response to button pushes is sluggish. Even though it is Linux based, WD went with a closed source video decoder chip, etc.
Please spread the word, Windows 7 should be called Vista2.
Instead of a phone that takes pictures, how about a camera you can make phone calls on. Or does this rule apply to cameras too?
Dell only assembles computers. They don't make any components.
Both the laptop and the battery have space tied up in the connector. A non-swappable batter connector should be smaller.
It may also simplify the internal portion of the power supply to not need to handle battery removal/replacement while the laptop is on.
Handling a batch of bad batteries is going to be more painful when the whole laptop needs to go to the shop, however.
The bad news is that the new HP Linux will only run on PA-RISC.
For whatever reason, very few manufacturers label chargers/power supplies in a way that makes it easy to tell which one goes with which device. (Especially after the charger/PS has spent some time in the plastic tub I store them in when not is use.)
The first thing I do when I unpack something new is grab a silver colored marker and jot the device description on the wall wart. That way I can go through the bin and find a supply labeled "Uniden WiFi Router" without needing to check the AC/DC/Voltage/Current/connector types.
Oh come on people. They'll build the pyramids in Oildale, not on "the hill".
Tyrell Corporation will build the first one, and before you know it North High will be full of Replicants.
Screw the payroll systems, California should just start issuing their own money. Then they can pay the state workers in useless "California Bux".
You either need to insert some hand washing into your routine, or do that stuff in the reverse order.
Yup, its confirmed. We're getting 32 i960 cores in one chip. Dust off those floating-point-on-integer libraries.
That isn't a graphics card, its 32 laserjet brains on one card.
Milestones for Sun:
1) They stopped shipping a C compiler with the SunOS. Frustrated people gradually moved to GCC.
2) They moved from BSD to SYS-V. Hey, all the other kids are doing it.
3) Linus wrote his kernel while reading the SunOS kernel API.
4) They spent years championing everything but PCI.
5) They spent millions trying to make IDE and NIC chipsets that sucked. Ooh, remember the Ultra5, and HME?
6) The spent years playng a peekaboo game of "Look NFS is standard, except only we have a lock daemon".
7) They spent years giving Veritas and Oracle blowjobs. If Solaris was a car, it would come without wheels.
8) They spent years smoking mental crack, and planning to dominate the desktop by making Java the dominant paradigm. (It looks painful, being thoroughly outmaneuvered my Microsoft.)
9) Cache RAM NDA fiasco?
10) ZFS is so great, we're giving it away. Wow excellent plan. XFS, JFS, ReiserFS, yup we need one more FS.
11) During all this dick fumbling time, *IBM* has gradually turned AIX/RT into something that eats a portion of Sun's lunch.
How do you guys keep morale up over there? Do you console yourself by saying, "Hey, at least we're more relevant than Novell?" or "Hey, Solaris is in better shape than OS/2?" or "Hey, HP completely dumped PA-RISC, and now their an Intel Junkie. ROFL"
How can so many smart people make so many stupid decisions, and keep from running a company completely in the ground? Are they flying by throwing themselves at the ground and missing?
The UNIX market, and arguably all modern OS business, was Sun's to loose. At this point, throwing one more thing out of the gondola isn't going to help. If you opensource everything tomorrow, is anyone really interested in taking you back?
Quick buy some Sun memorabilia before they become the next Intergraph/SGI/Sequent.
What ultimately happened with Actiontec/Verizon? Did they release source for the FiOS routers?
I think you're assuming that people aren't leveraged to the hilt. Continuing to pay for a big mortgage for a McMansion, the payments on a 40k$ SUV or super-truck, the payments on the wife's Volvo crossover, payments on a big screen plasma, a 200$ per month cable bill (gotta have NASCAR), 200$ per month of cellphone bills (gotta have my Razr), and the 5$ per gallon gas?
Even if you sell the SUV, still gotta have something to drive.
Chuckle. Bankruptcy and suicide rate will be up this year.
I have an 90 Metro parked on my RV pad. If fuel prices continue to climb, I may put the work into it to get it street-legal again. (Replace the catalytic converter, do a tune-up, etc.)
When I was younger, single, and wasn't the breadwinner responsible for a mortgage, I felt comfortable driving around in a slow, small, no-airbags car. These days, the Metro is one notch better than going down the road at 60 mph, naked in a shopping cart.
When SUVs are driven for fewer miles, and fewer people showing their asses in sporty cars, it may feel safe to drive the Metro again. Maybe.
Drive 40 miles to unload and ride bikes around a 3 mile loop? It may get to the point that people actually ride bikes in their own neighborhoods. (Gasp.)