Or alternatively, I'll just start stapling cable to the telephone lines and make my own damn network. If they can enforce private interests on property that doesn't belong to them so can I! Don't want me going to democracynow.org? Ok well at least everyone on my road will have awesome P2P!
What does "java support" for your application involves? You wrote the application in-house no? How can any third party support it? Do you turn the code and documentation to their services division and pay software developers to test and manage it for you?
My opinion (and probably the opinion of most slashdot parents) is that loved ones should be encouraged to do what they want regardless of societal pressures gender bias etc. Self-confidence is very helpful in achieving goals especially in the face of many setbacks and obstacles.
I don't know very much about teaching history, but I don't think history is easy for everyone, and your wife might be an ideal phd candidate if that's what she wanted to do.
Hmm are you talking about the same Harvard president who suggested that the reason there were less postdoc women was because they were innately inferior? www.dailyprincetonian.com
There are facts that women are under-represented in a lot of careers, particularly engineering, but rather than funding rigorous studies "on whether or not women lack the same mental abilities as men", shouldn't we be looking at social problems? Perhaps those women were told at a young age that they couldn't be good at math, or encouraged to play with dollies while the boys were encouraged play with Legos and blocks. It was only within the last 50 years that women were even let into most rigorous programs (medicine, law, etc). They were often refused on the most flimsy and outright sexist grounds, "Well academically you are overqualified, but we can't admit you because you might get pregnant and then will drop out"
I think history has had enough people trying to argue a scientific basis for discrimination or bias against women and minorities. If you want to do rigorous research, you will have to eliminate social and class variables which is quite impossible.
I use my Lenovo X60t. It's an old model available on EBAY for like $400 now, but it is a full laptop and the screen rotates into a tablet (with wacom stylus) and it weighs under 3 lbs. It's not e-ink, but then again you can't do development on a kindle. So for its limitations, it is the best device for me.
Hahaha that's nothing! Would that we were so fortunate we could chew the leaves and beans of coffee bushes! All we get is a cup of warm spit from some who chewed the leaves and beans off coffee bushes, and we all share a cubicle 26 of us an alf the floor is missing!
Wow u guys drink (or waste) a lot of coffee!!! I think its great that everyone took a little cutback to save another employees job, but $80k is seems to be too much to spend on coffee!
I have a coffeemaker ($40) a thermos ($20) and I drink over a liter of coffee a day, fair trade organic Bolivian full city roast mostly. Not counting the cost of running water or bicycling/driving to/from the coop where I get it, it costs me less than $5/week. I also have years supply of filters which I paid around $4 for.So here I am way overconsuming coffee (strong coffee too) and even if I bought a few new coffeemakers a year I'd be less than $400/year. Now of course doing things on an institutional level would allow more competive coffee pricing, et cetera.
From an employer perspective I think giving free coffee is a way to get people to work harder. Ok it doesn't work for people who to take 4 daily coffee breaks and blather instead of working, but if your boss who knows you are going to be fixing bugs all night to meet a deadline,he or she can buy you a thermos full of steaming black liquid infusion that fortifies engineers who have worked well beyond a full day:)
I think for like $100 worth of chinese food + coffee / employee / year, you could get a lot better work out of your employees, and increase job satisfaction especially when they have to work above and beyond normal expected requirements
Can we say colonialism? Take a look at Nigeria. Millions of starving people, yet some people are getting immensely rich off of Nigerian oil exports. According to Wikipedia, Nigeria is the 8th largest oil exporter in the world, and provides the US 11% of its oil imports. Why should up to a million people starve each year in a country so immensely wealthy?
Why the Lucky Stiff created an online Ruby environment for teaching programmign to kids. It's called Hackety Hack. Here's a link: http://hacketyhack.heroku.com/
Oops sorry I just noticed hosting proprietary information on cloud is not an available option. In that case this is definitely not the solution for you!
I really like this service. The Linux desktop client (tasque) needs work, so right now it's mostly run through a web-browser and my cellphone (via free-as-in-speech Astrid client for Android).
Although we are always trying out new systems at work, I use this in parallel. I find it works well for me, both for personal and work task management. YMMV.
This is a slightly different problem, but I think is related. It might end up being useful to shift. I (and a lot of other people) use synergy2 (http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/) to share 1 keyboard and mouse over multiple monitors on multiple computers. This ends up being a lot less tricky than multi-desktop setups with its own limitations (you can't drag windows from desktop to desktop, you need multiple pcs, etc).
I find it works great, as I can have Linux, XP, and OSX all working simultaneously, each with their own monitor (or monitors) and never have to switch keyboard or mouse. Thank goodness cut and paste works between desktops! Now I'm wondering if there is a solution like this which can employ X and ssh tunneling to allow one to drag windows from Linux desktop to Linux desktop. That would be pretty awesome.
I did have some problems enabling NVIDIA twinview and Xinerama simultaneously (if you google 8 monitor ubuntu or 6 monitor ubuntu you will find full details). This is a problem in newer versions than Hardy (Intrepid, Jaunty). I rolled back to Hardy, have not bothered to check if it's been fixed in Karmic.
I'm happily using 2 video cards at home, 3 at work.
Ah but if it could project a display on any surface, and you could interact with the device with voice, holographic keyboard or watch trackball... A watch certainly is a little more convenient than a cellphone....
I haven't owned a watch in years, but when it catches up to my HTC G1, I'd probably switch.
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Or alternatively, I'll just start stapling cable to the telephone lines and make my own damn network. If they can enforce private interests on property that doesn't belong to them so can I! Don't want me going to democracynow.org? Ok well at least everyone on my road will have awesome P2P!
The Spiderians are actually more closely related to Earth-elephants than they are to Earth spiders.
hah yes! Or Ruby or Python :) That brightened my day! Time to go to work :)
What does "java support" for your application involves? You wrote the application in-house no? How can any third party support it? Do you turn the code and documentation to their services division and pay software developers to test and manage it for you?
My opinion (and probably the opinion of most slashdot parents) is that loved ones should be encouraged to do what they want regardless of societal pressures gender bias etc. Self-confidence is very helpful in achieving goals especially in the face of many setbacks and obstacles.
I don't know very much about teaching history, but I don't think history is easy for everyone, and your wife might be an ideal phd candidate if that's what she wanted to do.
Hmm are you talking about the same Harvard president who suggested that the reason there were less postdoc women was because they were innately inferior?
www.dailyprincetonian.com
There are facts that women are under-represented in a lot of careers, particularly engineering, but rather than funding rigorous studies "on whether or not women lack the same mental abilities as men", shouldn't we be looking at social problems? Perhaps those women were told at a young age that they couldn't be good at math, or encouraged to play with dollies while the boys were encouraged play with Legos and blocks. It was only within the last 50 years that women were even let into most rigorous programs (medicine, law, etc). They were often refused on the most flimsy and outright sexist grounds, "Well academically you are overqualified, but we can't admit you because you might get pregnant and then will drop out"
I think history has had enough people trying to argue a scientific basis for discrimination or bias against women and minorities. If you want to do rigorous research, you will have to eliminate social and class variables which is quite impossible.
The person (actually people) that raised and killed my dinner were growing broccoli and soybeans and peanuts.
reduction of greenhouse gasses and/or global temperature?
Growing ice-masses instead of shrinking ice masses? Lowering of sea levels?
I use my Lenovo X60t. It's an old model available on EBAY for like $400 now, but it is a full laptop and the screen rotates into a tablet (with wacom stylus) and it weighs under 3 lbs. It's not e-ink, but then again you can't do development on a kindle. So for its limitations, it is the best device for me.
I take the bus to European cities all the time from the US. Not only do I not get stripsearched, I get to visit Spongebob.
And you clearly cannot spell. Perhaps we should drink until we are brain damaged :)
Goodness no, I live in rural Connecticut.
Check http://www.couchsurfing.com./ A lot of people travel on the uber cheap this way. It's pretty nice :)
Hahaha that's nothing! Would that we were so fortunate we could chew the leaves and beans of coffee bushes! All we get is a cup of warm spit from some who chewed the leaves and beans off coffee bushes, and we all share a cubicle 26 of us an alf the floor is missing!
Wow u guys drink (or waste) a lot of coffee!!! I think its great that everyone took a little cutback to save another employees job, but $80k is seems to be too much to spend on coffee!
I have a coffeemaker ($40) a thermos ($20) and I drink over a liter of coffee a day, fair trade organic Bolivian full city roast mostly. Not counting the cost of running water or bicycling/driving to/from the coop where I get it, it costs me less than $5 /week. I also have years supply of filters which I paid around $4 for.So here I am way overconsuming coffee (strong coffee too) and even if I bought a few new coffeemakers a year I'd be less than $400/year. Now of course doing things on an institutional level would allow more competive coffee pricing, et cetera.
From an employer perspective I think giving free coffee is a way to get people to work harder. Ok it doesn't work for people who to take 4 daily coffee breaks and blather instead of working, but if your boss who knows you are going to be fixing bugs all night to meet a deadline,he or she can buy you a thermos full of steaming black liquid infusion that fortifies engineers who have worked well beyond a full day :)
I think for like $100 worth of chinese food + coffee / employee / year, you could get a lot better work out of your employees, and increase job satisfaction especially when they have to work above and beyond normal expected requirements
Can we say colonialism? Take a look at Nigeria. Millions of starving people, yet some people are getting immensely rich off of Nigerian oil exports. According to Wikipedia, Nigeria is the 8th largest oil exporter in the world, and provides the US 11% of its oil imports. Why should up to a million people starve each year in a country so immensely wealthy?
Why the Lucky Stiff created an online Ruby environment for teaching programmign to kids. It's called Hackety Hack. Here's a link:
http://hacketyhack.heroku.com/
Oops sorry I just noticed hosting proprietary information on cloud is not an available option. In that case this is definitely not the solution for you!
I really like this service. The Linux desktop client (tasque) needs work, so right now it's mostly run through a web-browser and my cellphone (via free-as-in-speech Astrid client for Android).
Although we are always trying out new systems at work, I use this in parallel. I find it works well for me, both for personal and work task management. YMMV.
What Al Queda stickers? What political statements?
Her blog only said Arabic stickers. AFAIK, the language is not (nor is speaking it or appreciating it) against any laws.
This is a slightly different problem, but I think is related. It might end up being useful to shift. I (and a lot of other people) use synergy2 (http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/) to share 1 keyboard and mouse over multiple monitors on multiple computers. This ends up being a lot less tricky than multi-desktop setups with its own limitations (you can't drag windows from desktop to desktop, you need multiple pcs, etc).
I find it works great, as I can have Linux, XP, and OSX all working simultaneously, each with their own monitor (or monitors) and never have to switch keyboard or mouse. Thank goodness cut and paste works between desktops! Now I'm wondering if there is a solution like this which can employ X and ssh tunneling to allow one to drag windows from Linux desktop to Linux desktop. That would be pretty awesome.
second for xinerama it works.
I did have some problems enabling NVIDIA twinview and Xinerama simultaneously (if you google 8 monitor ubuntu or 6 monitor ubuntu you will find full details). This is a problem in newer versions than Hardy (Intrepid, Jaunty). I rolled back to Hardy, have not bothered to check if it's been fixed in Karmic.
I'm happily using 2 video cards at home, 3 at work.
What happened to Cardinal? The project that was aiming to have Ruby compile to Parrot bytecode and promised full Ruby Perl 6 interoperability?
No you have been letting your soda go flat! Next time drink it faster! And don't burp ;-)
Ah but if it could project a display on any surface, and you could interact with the device with voice, holographic keyboard or watch trackball... A watch certainly is a little more convenient than a cellphone....
I haven't owned a watch in years, but when it catches up to my HTC G1, I'd probably switch.