See all my data management is taken care of for me. It's just like giving your valuables to a maid to throw down a disposal.
Finding an iOS reader that doesn't require a Google Reader account is nigh impossible.
If you've seen MIB, then you'd realize this is actually an Alien transport depot. This one's above the government.
If you zoom in too close there will be a red flash and then your browser will go back to something like LiveJournal.
If you're so very important that you can't turn your blackberry off for a day, you have the option of not visiting Alton Towers. If you really are that important, maybe you should turn your PDA off anyway, so your employers can be prepared for if you ever die or move jobs. This attitude has always bothered me. People are convinced that the sole use of PDAs/SmartPhones/Etc are simply to switch out of socialization and that if you do need to have a device that is in fact work related that it's your employer's fault or your own self-deluded importance that makes you far inappropriate to take public amusement time with your friends or family.
I'd like to counter both issues. I have seen people get to the point where they use cell phones to locate each other when separated or worse lost. In the case of the deaf, they are forced to use Cell phones and PDAs. The simplest phone in the world will not help them at all. This is why the Sidekick became so vastly popular. So while you may think these people are IM'ing to be anti social, that may be the prime reason they are using the phone.
But let's talk about the need to train our employers in not relying on us. Apart from the fact that some people may actually be on call (e.g. actual professionals, like Doctors, or IT Specialists) in other cases they may be sole-proprietors trying to finally take some time away from their businesses. Needing to be reached if something really requires their specific knowledge.
We live in a society so over worked to begin with than maybe some creature conveniences may actually be necessary to let people get that extra time to relax. Whether you agree with this or not, it's not your decision to make for someone else. Someone's PDA usage doesn't affect me at an amusement park.
The fact is, private amusement parks can have rules, and can ask you to leave if you refuse to follow them. This is just an example of that.
Yes, you can 'vote with your wallet'... you can choose to go elsewhere... And it's so helpful that the amusement park wants to help manage our decisions for us. Yup,. I call that fun and amusement.
In college I was working in a lab where I discovered that a grad student known as 'the porn king' was trafficking child pornography.
Sadly due to police screw-ups with the evidence and warrants, there was no admissible evidence. The student was released.
On the other hand I know of a man who was arrested because a drive sent for repair was found to have an image of a child.The man arrested.
Sure... you can say, download no adult images. Sure, you can say that a person is responsible for every file on their drive. But where does the penalty and the judgement show any sense of fairness or balance.
Also, while trying to avoid the conspiracy angle. We have to admit that it's pretty damned easy to get a file on a person's drive. Windows, Mac, or *nix. Add to this some of the horrifying things I've seen done in child custody cases to make one party or the other look bad... passing judgement based solely on images found on a hard drive becomes fairly weak.
In the cases above, the student trafficking had several CD masters of child pornography, but the CDs were inadmissible as they were obtained from his house with warrant, but the constraints of the warrant were badly defined and executed. In the case of the other man, it turned out that the image was found as a result of inflating an archive of what was supposed to be 250 adult images.
The legal system seems to be very direct on this. You bring one image into the court as evidence and there is no question of origin, intent, or guilt.
Personally, as a father, I have very strong opinions against Child Pornography. I also have very strong opinions about punishing the right person for the right crime.
(Figures this will either get rated -1 or flamebait. Just my $0.02.)
The obvious problem here is the problem with most laws where we're saving people from themselves. There are people out there who can fully multitask while driving and still do so as a completely safe driver.
We don't legislate 100% against drinking alcohol despite the fact that there are people who destroy their lives as well as others using it.
But, is it in fact possible to fairly test, license, and enforce subactivities of driving? Do we craft a general examination for driving that isn't an 80 year old man bitching while we swerve around cones at 15 miles an hour?
Far be it from us to examine the bigger problem that 80% of the drivers in our metropolitan areas are unable to handle themselves in a crisis.
I can think of no excuse whatsoever to justify texting while driving.
Tell that to the driver who's deaf spouse has just had to deal with their injured baby at home and can't use a telephone.
Many seem to forget that texting isn't merely the distraction of teens and irresponsible adults. In the deaf and hard of hearing community it is the only way to communicate when apart.
I'd add, "And boat" but that might be just a bit too obscure.
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I don't see why it's difficult for readers to perceive that parts of OSX could sit under 1/2 GB
The SDK module for 10.4u that ships with XCode clocks in at 317.2MB. And that's the entire public API suite.
The Public Frameworks for 10.4u Are just over 52MB
The unix standard/usr/ (include, lib, libexec, and X11R6) is a meaty 245.1 MB
Tiger's Extension folder is 129.9 MB, but that's assuming al the potential hardware (which could be greatly reduced)
Even the entirety of Core Services is only 163.5 MB.
So, the entire API set (with header), all the extension, and all of Core Services rounds out at 610.6 MB
That's without removing everything unnecessary for the phone (much of Core Services, Extensions, and all the header files.)
1/2 gig or smaller? Easily for a streamlined version of OSX that runs in a minimal footprint.
London cabbies, unlike their American counterparts, have to learn the layout of streets and the locations of thousands of places of interest in order to get a license.
Unlike their counterparts in cities like Los Angeles, where knowing the area is a disadvantage and the real talent comes from keeping the passenger in the cab longer than necessary and taking them entirely away from their destination for an increased fare.
Scientists finally figured out why the first thing we do when we hurt out finger is put it in our mouths.
As my great-grandfather used to never tell me as he didn't bounce me on his knee since he died 2 years before I was born, "Sure, you put your finger in your mouth to stop infection. The spit gets in the eyes of the germs and they blindly bump into each other. Since they're so small, this usually delivers a fatal blow and they die off very quickly."
Personally, I'm of the school that Science Fiction is a vehicle to tell the "Human Story." This is why shows like "Twilight Zone" were so powerful despite the lack of Effects. I will be far more rivitted by Billy Mumy putting bad people in the corn field than the kid in the "Twilight Zone Movie" playing cartoon games.
If you really want to make some good special editions that fix films that are lacking the oomph...
I'd start with fixing the story in Matrix 2&3 and rewriting Star Wars 1, 2, and 3.
I wouldn't call it interconnecting so much as I'd call it a hostile buy-out with intent to kill.
ICQ's popularity was ramping up at such a speed its IM implementation looked like it might overshadow AOL's which was losing customers due to dis-satisfaction with the AIM client environment.
ICQ still exists and was rolled into AIM. However, shortly after the buyout the dev teams were slashed (Mac team eliminated) and updates seem to have slowed to a snails pace. Most ICQ users I interacted with have all used the merger as a prompt to migrate to AIM (AOL's assumed intent)
It would seem that this rumours site is now down
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This may finally have been the straw that broke Apple's back. The domain resolves, the server pings, but the site is not serving web pages at the moment.
Interesting.
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I wish this was as easy as the equation suggests. I've gotten in the practice of submitting 3 estimates for each task.
Optimistic: Assuming the APIs and algorithms play nice
Realistic: What my experience suggests may be the time hit
Pessimistic: What my experience suggests the hit could be if everything goes wrong. This often includes political issues such as a tech writer with a god-complex.
Unfortunately, in the last cycle I went thru, the PM simply took the pessimistic estimates and used them as is. All this inevitably does for the engineer is teach a better way to 'Scotty' your estimates for the purposes of either looking good or sneaking in more features that PM won't approve.
Granted, I'm not sure (as a tech) how much I want a PM to take my numbers and then modify them because he is assessing my level of number accuracy.
I'll have to disagree ('Circle takes the square')
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I'd have to disagree with this. Granted I do so firstoff as a geek trying to transition to management, but mostly with the cynicism that I really don't believe the geek has the power that he/she had 6 years ago.
More and more I see the decision of the engineer questioned or worst ignored entirely by the P.M. who is convinced that he alone as P.M. has enough technical knowledge to decide dates, make code estimates, and decide what is and isn't technologically deliverable. I see the geek job being transformed into the code monkey job. Who can we pay the least to work the longests simply implementing the most basic APIs to do a job.
Personally, it's my hope that if more Geeks could weave their way into management that eventually smarter decisions might come down the food chain.
This however may be where the last shreds of my optimism haven't been completely been destroyted by my jaded pessimism. Granted, of course, I'm the kind of person who stopped reading Dilbert 4 years ago because it's just not funny anymore. I don't need to see the reality of work when I read the comics.
I'm not a fan of 'floating checks.' And I'm not just saying this because I tried it in college. Well, yes I am.
A check is theoretically a statement of cash availability. It's not a line of credit. The concept being, if you hand a vendor a check, he has every right to walk to a branch of the bank that the check is drawn on and demand payment for it.
Granted, this now requires an onslaught of sales of service to the vendor and probably a fingerprint. But none-the-less, they have to render payment or declare it unservicable.
People have grown to be dependant on the 2 day 'free money' period for vendors that take checks. This unfortunately leads to a large number of people who 'float checks' that shouldn't float in the first place.
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See all my data management is taken care of for me. It's just like giving your valuables to a maid to throw down a disposal. Finding an iOS reader that doesn't require a Google Reader account is nigh impossible.
If you've seen MIB, then you'd realize this is actually an Alien transport depot. This one's above the government. If you zoom in too close there will be a red flash and then your browser will go back to something like LiveJournal.
Thank you for the link. Love Rowan's comedy stylings. Must show it to the wife.
Pity it's not subtitled
I'd like to counter both issues. I have seen people get to the point where they use cell phones to locate each other when separated or worse lost. In the case of the deaf, they are forced to use Cell phones and PDAs. The simplest phone in the world will not help them at all. This is why the Sidekick became so vastly popular. So while you may think these people are IM'ing to be anti social, that may be the prime reason they are using the phone.
But let's talk about the need to train our employers in not relying on us. Apart from the fact that some people may actually be on call (e.g. actual professionals, like Doctors, or IT Specialists) in other cases they may be sole-proprietors trying to finally take some time away from their businesses. Needing to be reached if something really requires their specific knowledge.
We live in a society so over worked to begin with than maybe some creature conveniences may actually be necessary to let people get that extra time to relax. Whether you agree with this or not, it's not your decision to make for someone else. Someone's PDA usage doesn't affect me at an amusement park.
The fact is, private amusement parks can have rules, and can ask you to leave if you refuse to follow them. This is just an example of that.
Yes, you can 'vote with your wallet'... you can choose to go elsewhere... And it's so helpful that the amusement park wants to help manage our decisions for us. Yup,. I call that fun and amusement.
This tag basically translates to:
"Hi, I didn't follow standards until I got caught."
Personally, I think I find the tag is greatly helpful in finding which web devs I would and wouldn't want to hire.
"Ooh, look. A page that renders right and doesn't have the 'bad-dev seal of compliance'"
In college I was working in a lab where I discovered that a grad student known as 'the porn king' was trafficking child pornography.
Sadly due to police screw-ups with the evidence and warrants, there was no admissible evidence. The student was released.
On the other hand I know of a man who was arrested because a drive sent for repair was found to have an image of a child.The man arrested.
Sure... you can say, download no adult images. Sure, you can say that a person is responsible for every file on their drive. But where does the penalty and the judgement show any sense of fairness or balance.
Also, while trying to avoid the conspiracy angle. We have to admit that it's pretty damned easy to get a file on a person's drive. Windows, Mac, or *nix. Add to this some of the horrifying things I've seen done in child custody cases to make one party or the other look bad... passing judgement based solely on images found on a hard drive becomes fairly weak.
In the cases above, the student trafficking had several CD masters of child pornography, but the CDs were inadmissible as they were obtained from his house with warrant, but the constraints of the warrant were badly defined and executed. In the case of the other man, it turned out that the image was found as a result of inflating an archive of what was supposed to be 250 adult images.
The legal system seems to be very direct on this. You bring one image into the court as evidence and there is no question of origin, intent, or guilt.
Personally, as a father, I have very strong opinions against Child Pornography. I also have very strong opinions about punishing the right person for the right crime.
(Figures this will either get rated -1 or flamebait. Just my $0.02.)
I don't think Six Apart ever really knew exactly what to make of LJ
I'm not entirely sure LJ ever really knew exactly what to make of LJ.
New Shimmer may be a floor wax and a dessert topping, but LJ will always be trying to shoehorn blogging and social networking into the same box.
The obvious problem here is the problem with most laws where we're saving people from themselves. There are people out there who can fully multitask while driving and still do so as a completely safe driver.
We don't legislate 100% against drinking alcohol despite the fact that there are people who destroy their lives as well as others using it.
But, is it in fact possible to fairly test, license, and enforce subactivities of driving? Do we craft a general examination for driving that isn't an 80 year old man bitching while we swerve around cones at 15 miles an hour?
Far be it from us to examine the bigger problem that 80% of the drivers in our metropolitan areas are unable to handle themselves in a crisis.
I can think of no excuse whatsoever to justify texting while driving.
Tell that to the driver who's deaf spouse has just had to deal with their injured baby at home and can't use a telephone.
Many seem to forget that texting isn't merely the distraction of teens and irresponsible adults. In the deaf and hard of hearing community it is the only way to communicate when apart.
Just my general observation on the topic.
I'd add, "And boat" but that might be just a bit too obscure.
I don't see why it's difficult for readers to perceive that parts of OSX could sit under 1/2 GB
/usr/ (include, lib, libexec, and X11R6) is a meaty 245.1 MB
The SDK module for 10.4u that ships with XCode clocks in at 317.2MB. And that's the entire public API suite.
The Public Frameworks for 10.4u Are just over 52MB
The unix standard
Tiger's Extension folder is 129.9 MB, but that's assuming al the potential hardware (which could be greatly reduced)
Even the entirety of Core Services is only 163.5 MB.
So, the entire API set (with header), all the extension, and all of Core Services rounds out at 610.6 MB
That's without removing everything unnecessary for the phone (much of Core Services, Extensions, and all the header files.)
1/2 gig or smaller? Easily for a streamlined version of OSX that runs in a minimal footprint.
London cabbies, unlike their American counterparts, have to learn the layout of streets and the locations of thousands of places of interest in order to get a license.
Unlike their counterparts in cities like Los Angeles, where knowing the area is a disadvantage and the real talent comes from keeping the passenger in the cab longer than necessary and taking them entirely away from their destination for an increased fare.
if it did then Congress folk wouldn't be able to meet the career ending kids of their dreams via email.
They might have to resort to passing their time drafting useful legislation.
Scientists finally figured out why the first thing we do when we hurt out finger is put it in our mouths.
As my great-grandfather used to never tell me as he didn't bounce me on his knee since he died 2 years before I was born,
"Sure, you put your finger in your mouth to stop infection. The spit gets in the eyes of the germs and they blindly bump into each other. Since they're so small, this usually delivers a fatal blow and they die off very quickly."
Personally, I'm of the school that Science Fiction is a vehicle to tell the "Human Story." This is why shows like "Twilight Zone" were so powerful despite the lack of Effects. I will be far more rivitted by Billy Mumy putting bad people in the corn field than the kid in the "Twilight Zone Movie" playing cartoon games.
If you really want to make some good special editions that fix films that are lacking the oomph...
I'd start with fixing the story in Matrix 2&3 and rewriting Star Wars 1, 2, and 3.
Just my 0.016 Euro.
I wouldn't call it interconnecting so much as I'd call it a hostile buy-out with intent to kill.
ICQ's popularity was ramping up at such a speed its IM implementation looked like it might overshadow AOL's which was losing customers due to dis-satisfaction with the AIM client environment.
ICQ still exists and was rolled into AIM. However, shortly after the buyout the dev teams were slashed (Mac team eliminated) and updates seem to have slowed to a snails pace. Most ICQ users I interacted with have all used the merger as a prompt to migrate to AIM (AOL's assumed intent)
This may finally have been the straw that broke Apple's back. The domain resolves, the server pings, but the site is not serving web pages at the moment. Interesting.
I wish this was as easy as the equation suggests. I've gotten in the practice of submitting 3 estimates for each task.
Optimistic: Assuming the APIs and algorithms play nice
Realistic: What my experience suggests may be the time hit
Pessimistic: What my experience suggests the hit could be if everything goes wrong. This often includes political issues such as a tech writer with a god-complex.
Unfortunately, in the last cycle I went thru, the PM simply took the pessimistic estimates and used them as is. All this inevitably does for the engineer is teach a better way to 'Scotty' your estimates for the purposes of either looking good or sneaking in more features that PM won't approve.
Granted, I'm not sure (as a tech) how much I want a PM to take my numbers and then modify them because he is assessing my level of number accuracy.
I'd have to disagree with this. Granted I do so firstoff as a geek trying to transition to management, but mostly with the cynicism that I really don't believe the geek has the power that he/she had 6 years ago.
More and more I see the decision of the engineer questioned or worst ignored entirely by the P.M. who is convinced that he alone as P.M. has enough technical knowledge to decide dates, make code estimates, and decide what is and isn't technologically deliverable. I see the geek job being transformed into the code monkey job. Who can we pay the least to work the longests simply implementing the most basic APIs to do a job.
Personally, it's my hope that if more Geeks could weave their way into management that eventually smarter decisions might come down the food chain.
This however may be where the last shreds of my optimism haven't been completely been destroyted by my jaded pessimism. Granted, of course, I'm the kind of person who stopped reading Dilbert 4 years ago because it's just not funny anymore. I don't need to see the reality of work when I read the comics.
You mean you don't want to run the palm emulator of FreeBSD first?
I'm not a fan of 'floating checks.' And I'm not just saying this because I tried it in college. Well, yes I am.
A check is theoretically a statement of cash availability. It's not a line of credit. The concept being, if you hand a vendor a check, he has every right to walk to a branch of the bank that the check is drawn on and demand payment for it.
Granted, this now requires an onslaught of sales of service to the vendor and probably a fingerprint. But none-the-less, they have to render payment or declare it unservicable.
People have grown to be dependant on the 2 day 'free money' period for vendors that take checks. This unfortunately leads to a large number of people who 'float checks' that shouldn't float in the first place.
Just my money order for 2/100 $US