common decency says that if you do not like something someone is doing, you ask them to stop before going to a superior.
In real life, sure. In the office, hell no. With no power comes no responsibility. This is half the reason managers exist - they get paid more and given more 'power' than their subordinates because part of their responsibilities include dealing with these uncomfortable situations and acting as a personal buffer zone for the significant number of people in this world (even outside of/.) who despite being capable workers, still have horrible interpersonal skills and the emotional maturity of kindergartners. Personal conflicts should never be given a chance to escalate, or ideally even start in the workplace.
How, and how well, the manager deals with it is another matter. I reckon a competent manager should be able to effect change without immediate disciplinary action, but that decision is their problem.
The 'sudo' command in Ubuntu et al at least means you only have to remember your own password, not a separate one for root. USB functionality still has a ways to go though.
Only if they all do it. Whilst Linux's marketshare is comparitively tiny, imagine if you were a hardware vendor and you suddenly got that whole segment all to yourself - doesn't bode well for diversity, but if the niche gets vacated, someone's gonna fill it.
I'm in Australia, so sunlight is in plentiful supply anywhere more than a few hundred km/mi north of Melbourne on the south coast. I'll happily cede that solar is a whole lot more viable over here than in the UK.
There are a few applications to which solar lends itself, and some of them need to be planned for - a modest battery setup and DC wiring for lighting with compact fluorescent lightbulbs is an excellent example. A lot of other applications require a bit of a rethink with regards to consumption - houses can be designed to require minimal heating and cooling, and appliances can be a hell of a lot more efficient than the stuff most of us have in our homes. On top of that, lifestyle changes and *gasp* small sacrifices here and there would also go a long way.
They're only related if the more efficient panel isn't significantly more expensive to produce. That is, of course, largely a matter of demand; the more of something you want/make/buy/sell, the more refined the production process becomes and the cheaper the individual units become - in this case, solar panels and therefore kilowatt hours.
Frankly I'm in favour of biting the bullet and making this a personal routlay, and am looking forward to doing so when I have a property to do it to. If someone can afford to buy a house, they can afford to put some bloody photovoltaics on the roof and if that adds an extra 6 months to their mortgage then so be it. For once it'd be nice to see economics take a back seat to environmental responsibility.
"Looking back, abundant data exist from states like Connecticut and Massachusetts to show that by 1840 the incidence of complex literacy in the United States was between 93 and 100 percent wherever such a thing mattered. According to the Connecticut census of 1840, only one citizen out of every 579 was illiterate and you probably don't want to know, not really, what people in those days considered literate; it's too embarrassing. Popular novels of the period give a clue: Last of the Mohicans, published in 1826, sold so well that a contemporary equivalent would have to move 10 million copies to match it. If you pick up an uncut version you find yourself in a dense thicket of philosophy, history, culture, manners, politics, geography, analysis of human motives and actions, all conveyed in data-rich periodic sentences so formidable only a determined and well-educated reader can handle it nowadays. Yet in 1818 we were a small-farm nation without colleges or universities to speak of. Could those simple folk have had more complex minds than our own?"
For plasma sets, even heavy burn-in/persistance can be minimised by leaving a full-screen white image with the brightness turned up for a while. It'll reduce the total lifespan/half-life of the panel but when you've already got upwards of 60 000 hours to play with, that's not a huge drama. Some sets are already including this as a built-in feature. You don't need to alternate black and white as what you're attempting is to accelerate the aging of the panel so that the relative age and therefore loss of brightness between individual pixels is less significant.
For LCD's that are better than equivalent-sized plasmas, I will happily plug the Philips 42PF9831 (Although I prefer the smaller 37PF9731). The Ambilight backing thing makes it a bit unwieldy, but thanks to the scanning backlight, response times are down to 3ms (grey-to-grey, but still), and it's equal to any plasma I've seen for brightness and contrast. Apparently the new Sony Bravias are full of awesome as well, but I haven't checked them out yet.
I'm curious to see if anything comes of the laser TV thing that got posted on here a few weeks ago, but until then, the new generation LCD sets are the win AFAIC.
Unfortunately this stuff all still pretty pricey in Australia, so I'm sticking to my cheap ol' 68cm CRT set and dodgy 2nd hand InFocus DLP projector for movies.
LCD burn is fixable. Make a screen-sized white image and a screen-sized black image and run a slideshow of them alternating for a few hours. This basically 'flexes' the light-blocking bits in each subpixel and gets them unstuck. I used to work at Philips and that's how we fixed it on any of the monitors in the office.
My cousin recently did a 3 month journey across the states, filming a close-to-zero-budget documentary. He only stayed in hostels for 4 or 5 nights all up, and managed to find sofas and spare beds through websites like the abovementioned for the rest of his journey. Open source accommodation, I love it:)
I'd like to see strength options as well as cardio for gameplay, maybe squeeze-grips, or a 5-10lb 'nunchuk' attachment for the Wii. Anything that promotes fitness is cool, but for people trying to gain weight, I reckon strength/resistance workouts are going to help a lot more than running/cycling.
That is pretty odd, maybe you really are one of the 'blessed' ones =/
Personally, I've never had any luck with conventional doctors, and now swear by traditional chinese doctors (it helps that I've found a really good one). I recommend it if you're open to the idea and can find a decent one in your area.
Couldn't Mozilla just have an alternate version called FreeFox with a modified logo - still recognisably fox-like - and allow the hardcore anti-non-free distros (Debian, Ubuntu et al)to adopt that? How about DebianFox? There's internal capitalisation to appease to programmers' naming sensibilities, and everyone else would know what the hell they were talking about. Seriously, not that hard, guys.
There's a very good chance you have worms, or imbalanced gut bacteria/flora. The whole 'fast-metabolism' thing is usually only true for people who exercise a lot - for the rest of us, it usually means that you're not digesting the food properly in the first place, as opposed to burning off more calories in your sleep.
IANAD, but if you want to gain a bit of weight, I'd recommend seeing a nutritionist or naturopath, and some sort of probiotic supplements might not hurt.
- SessionSaver, again this should have been built-in a long, long time ago.
- Tab Clicking Options, because the default way of dealing with tabs in Firefox is ridiculous.
These two can be consolidated at least, Tab Mix Plus takes care of both of them quite nicely for me. Requires some config on first install, but since then I've never had a problem with it.
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Yeah, I wasn't expecting that Spanish Inquisition either. *ducks*
common decency says that if you do not like something someone is doing, you ask them to stop before going to a superior.
/.) who despite being capable workers, still have horrible interpersonal skills and the emotional maturity of kindergartners. Personal conflicts should never be given a chance to escalate, or ideally even start in the workplace.
In real life, sure. In the office, hell no. With no power comes no responsibility. This is half the reason managers exist - they get paid more and given more 'power' than their subordinates because part of their responsibilities include dealing with these uncomfortable situations and acting as a personal buffer zone for the significant number of people in this world (even outside of
How, and how well, the manager deals with it is another matter. I reckon a competent manager should be able to effect change without immediate disciplinary action, but that decision is their problem.
Because typing speed is everything when you and your buddies are hacking the Gibson via a payphone.
Nah, the inappropriate ones all start with "There once was a man from NAntucket..."
The 'sudo' command in Ubuntu et al at least means you only have to remember your own password, not a separate one for root. USB functionality still has a ways to go though.
Once again, Hollywood is way ahead of ya =)
Only if they all do it. Whilst Linux's marketshare is comparitively tiny, imagine if you were a hardware vendor and you suddenly got that whole segment all to yourself - doesn't bode well for diversity, but if the niche gets vacated, someone's gonna fill it.
I'm in Australia, so sunlight is in plentiful supply anywhere more than a few hundred km/mi north of Melbourne on the south coast. I'll happily cede that solar is a whole lot more viable over here than in the UK.
There are a few applications to which solar lends itself, and some of them need to be planned for - a modest battery setup and DC wiring for lighting with compact fluorescent lightbulbs is an excellent example. A lot of other applications require a bit of a rethink with regards to consumption - houses can be designed to require minimal heating and cooling, and appliances can be a hell of a lot more efficient than the stuff most of us have in our homes. On top of that, lifestyle changes and *gasp* small sacrifices here and there would also go a long way.
Me, I want a goddamn earthship.
They're only related if the more efficient panel isn't significantly more expensive to produce. That is, of course, largely a matter of demand; the more of something you want/make/buy/sell, the more refined the production process becomes and the cheaper the individual units become - in this case, solar panels and therefore kilowatt hours.
Frankly I'm in favour of biting the bullet and making this a personal routlay, and am looking forward to doing so when I have a property to do it to. If someone can afford to buy a house, they can afford to put some bloody photovoltaics on the roof and if that adds an extra 6 months to their mortgage then so be it. For once it'd be nice to see economics take a back seat to environmental responsibility.
Related info from here:
"Looking back, abundant data exist from states like Connecticut and Massachusetts to show that by 1840 the incidence of complex literacy in the United States was between 93 and 100 percent wherever such a thing mattered. According to the Connecticut census of 1840, only one citizen out of every 579 was illiterate and you probably don't want to know, not really, what people in those days considered literate; it's too embarrassing. Popular novels of the period give a clue: Last of the Mohicans, published in 1826, sold so well that a contemporary equivalent would have to move 10 million copies to match it. If you pick up an uncut version you find yourself in a dense thicket of philosophy, history, culture, manners, politics, geography, analysis of human motives and actions, all conveyed in data-rich periodic sentences so formidable only a determined and well-educated reader can handle it nowadays. Yet in 1818 we were a small-farm nation without colleges or universities to speak of. Could those simple folk have had more complex minds than our own?"
For plasma sets, even heavy burn-in/persistance can be minimised by leaving a full-screen white image with the brightness turned up for a while. It'll reduce the total lifespan/half-life of the panel but when you've already got upwards of 60 000 hours to play with, that's not a huge drama. Some sets are already including this as a built-in feature. You don't need to alternate black and white as what you're attempting is to accelerate the aging of the panel so that the relative age and therefore loss of brightness between individual pixels is less significant.
For LCD's that are better than equivalent-sized plasmas, I will happily plug the Philips 42PF9831 (Although I prefer the smaller 37PF9731). The Ambilight backing thing makes it a bit unwieldy, but thanks to the scanning backlight, response times are down to 3ms (grey-to-grey, but still), and it's equal to any plasma I've seen for brightness and contrast. Apparently the new Sony Bravias are full of awesome as well, but I haven't checked them out yet.
I'm curious to see if anything comes of the laser TV thing that got posted on here a few weeks ago, but until then, the new generation LCD sets are the win AFAIC.
Unfortunately this stuff all still pretty pricey in Australia, so I'm sticking to my cheap ol' 68cm CRT set and dodgy 2nd hand InFocus DLP projector for movies.
LCD burn is fixable. Make a screen-sized white image and a screen-sized black image and run a slideshow of them alternating for a few hours. This basically 'flexes' the light-blocking bits in each subpixel and gets them unstuck. I used to work at Philips and that's how we fixed it on any of the monitors in the office.
here's another one.
They're trying to be quirky or something, like MTV station promos.
Yeah, I have wet dreams about IT job titles too.
No news yet, I'll keep you posted.
My cousin recently did a 3 month journey across the states, filming a close-to-zero-budget documentary. He only stayed in hostels for 4 or 5 nights all up, and managed to find sofas and spare beds through websites like the abovementioned for the rest of his journey. Open source accommodation, I love it :)
A politician capable of intelligent sarcasm, rock! \m/ For what it's worth, if I was American you'd totally have my vote.
I'd like to see strength options as well as cardio for gameplay, maybe squeeze-grips, or a 5-10lb 'nunchuk' attachment for the Wii. Anything that promotes fitness is cool, but for people trying to gain weight, I reckon strength/resistance workouts are going to help a lot more than running/cycling.
That is pretty odd, maybe you really are one of the 'blessed' ones =/
Personally, I've never had any luck with conventional doctors, and now swear by traditional chinese doctors (it helps that I've found a really good one). I recommend it if you're open to the idea and can find a decent one in your area.
Couldn't Mozilla just have an alternate version called FreeFox with a modified logo - still recognisably fox-like - and allow the hardcore anti-non-free distros (Debian, Ubuntu et al)to adopt that? How about DebianFox? There's internal capitalisation to appease to programmers' naming sensibilities, and everyone else would know what the hell they were talking about. Seriously, not that hard, guys.
There's a very good chance you have worms, or imbalanced gut bacteria/flora. The whole 'fast-metabolism' thing is usually only true for people who exercise a lot - for the rest of us, it usually means that you're not digesting the food properly in the first place, as opposed to burning off more calories in your sleep.
IANAD, but if you want to gain a bit of weight, I'd recommend seeing a nutritionist or naturopath, and some sort of probiotic supplements might not hurt.
Fair enough, I hadn't thought of non-aerial delivery, apart from trucking it inconspicuously across the border for an attack on a neighbour.
...but do they have reliable missiles/delivery systems that make their warheads an immediate threat to anyone important?
I think GP meant that the post being linked to may have been troll, as opposed to nonexistent.
- SessionSaver, again this should have been built-in a long, long time ago.
- Tab Clicking Options, because the default way of dealing with tabs in Firefox is ridiculous.
These two can be consolidated at least, Tab Mix Plus takes care of both of them quite nicely for me. Requires some config on first install, but since then I've never had a problem with it.