Does anyone else here absolutely *hate* the look of plasma? Maybe my vision is too good but all I see are little bright dots with black spaces around them. The "texture" of the picture drives me nuts.
In contrast, I bought a Westinghouse 42" LCD (1080p, 1920x1080 native) from Best Buy for about $1500 about two months ago and I have absolutely zero complaints with the picture quality. I can get a foot away and it's almost continuous tone and almost zero screen-door effect. Even my DLP-owning friend was quite impressed and is considering one for his bedroom.
...modify the previous year's final project with changed- and new-features, schema changes, enhanced performance/scaleability...
...and in the process discover what was good and bad about how they engineered/hacked it. Avoid these mistakes in your own code and prepare to go through this process repeatedly for the next forty years or so.
Oh, and every few years, throw in a platform/language change for good measure.
And you've never heard of lesbian couples (or even lesbian singles) having children via in vitro fertilization? You've never heard of women of "child bearing age" changing their minds about reproducing as their "time" comes to and end? Do you think this might be what the doctor is being cautious about?
I agree with you - allow access per user as required from a central repository.
The data was stored in a proper enterprise system, the manager exported a report to Excel in order to distribute - nothing I can do to prevent stupidity with information rightfully obtained...
The industry at large (Microsoft being a big offender) has been trying to get us to a this magical place where everything is system and location independent and this is where we end up:
1) FTP sites in Windows Explorer look like regular Windows folders. People expect them to work like regular folders. I had a field sales force try to "share" an Excel spreadsheet expecting the others to get a "Read Only" copy just like would happen on a local network share. Overwriting madness ensued. You can't blame them, there was no indication that it would work differently. Asking them to understand FTP is like accounting expecting me to fully understand the accounting rules behind my IT purchases.
2) A manager where I used to work had an Excel spreadsheet with payroll data for the entire company. He wanted to send each department their subset of the data. So he filtered his spreadsheet and sent the filtered lists to each department not knowing that he was sending each department the whole list under teh covers. Luckily, the file was 30MB and choked in the mail server and I was able to bail him out of that huge mistake. But you really can't blame him - he saw something on the screen and sent "it". There should be an indication of underlying data. BTW, doing a cut and paste special made each file about 25k or so.
Same thing with this PDF error. If your file shows certain information, it should contain that information only or indicate (or warn) otherwise.
By "simplifying" everything, nobody knows what's really going on. A couple times per week I have to explain some type of issue to some user about how "It's really more complicated than that, see Windows (or an app) hides this from you." User roll eyes as their simple task has become obscurely complicated - all in the name of making things "easier" to understand, ironically.
If something works different, it should be displayed different - that at least gives the user a chance to question what they are doing.
Basically, capacitors have their place (namely, smoothing voltages, or storing small amounts of power for quick discharge, i.e. camera flash)
Or like a hybrid vehicle.
As capacitor tech improves, you may get away with a 20hp gas engine if you can supplement it with 80hp of electric assist when needed, such as when accelerating. You may find that after a run of hard acceleration, your engine labors for a minute or two to recharge the capacitor, even if you suddenly stopped, thus filling up the reserve and keeping the gas engine operating more in a range that it is most efficient.
Like the steady charge "battery station" mentioned elswhere but on the other end.
Applications used to be a deal-breaker, but I have been using OpenOffice.org recently and it is, if anything, better than Office for my purposes.
You obviously aren't supporting a business.
"Um, it doesn't work like Office that I have at home. Can you come to my house and set me up there?"
"We've been using this Marco-laden Excel spreadsheet for the last 8 years and it doesn't work"
"I can't open all my Excel-embedded-into-powerpoint-embedded-into-Word files"
"This doesn't work like what I used at my last job."
"I got this file from a customer/vendor and it doesn't open right"
"I sent my file to a customer/vendor and they don't open right"
Now try telling Mr. Grouchy-old-guy Executive that your frustrating the hell out of him and all the people he employs all in the name of your software religion (as legitimate as it may be).
Now multiply that by 175 users in 5 offices across 4 times zones and two countries and tell me it's worth Microsoft bashing and open-source evangelizing. It's not - not even close.
Not until we have 100% file compatibility (i.e. 100% open document standard adoption) will Office alternatives become even close to adoption. And for that you need Microsoft to stop "innovating" outside the agreed upon standards. You know, like they did with IE - not.
The L.A. Times just ran an article about those who mountain bike in the dark to accomodate a busy life. I ride with the featured club twice a week and even though a geek and someone who grew up with asthma, my cardio capability has increased many-fold in the two years since adopting this practice. And when I come back to work the next day after a ride, I feel more flexible and have much much less back, neck, and shoulder stiffness/pain/headaches.
So although I work for a high-pressure "full commitment"-type IT job in this company (200 desktops in five locations on both coasts and two contries and an IT staff of "me" for everything from desktop support to network to web app programming), I can jet out of work at 5pm, catch an evening ride and come back at the perfect time to do server/network or some "leave me alone and let me write code" work.
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In my experience hurrying to make money never works out.
That's why I've been dutifully working on my 250-year get-rich scheme. So, 37 years in, I'm right on target!
Does anyone else here absolutely *hate* the look of plasma? Maybe my vision is too good but all I see are little bright dots with black spaces around them. The "texture" of the picture drives me nuts.
In contrast, I bought a Westinghouse 42" LCD (1080p, 1920x1080 native) from Best Buy for about $1500 about two months ago and I have absolutely zero complaints with the picture quality. I can get a foot away and it's almost continuous tone and almost zero screen-door effect. Even my DLP-owning friend was quite impressed and is considering one for his bedroom.
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...modify the previous year's final project with changed- and new-features, schema changes, enhanced performance/scaleability...
...and in the process discover what was good and bad about how they engineered/hacked it. Avoid these mistakes in your own code and prepare to go through this process repeatedly for the next forty years or so.
Oh, and every few years, throw in a platform/language change for good measure.
Looks like Ford's Fusion is due for a little catch-up work as it seems short a blade or two....
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http://forum.avtoindex.com/foto/data/media/37/for
A swarm of /. users has been demonstrated that can get together to transport a web server into the afterlife...
Ask someone to make you a www2 homepage
Come on, everyone knows that everyone knows that you want a wwww homepage now.
If you want serious, world-moving discussions, try talk radio. Everyone knows that's where real, serious progress in important issues is made.
Well, I reject *your* reality and substitute it with this forum post!
All electronics operate with an internal supply of magic smoke,
If you let the smoke out, it stops working!
I thought it read "Download Tourette's."
I used to suffer bouts of "Download Tourette's" back in the dial-up days...
Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesbian
And you've never heard of lesbian couples (or even lesbian singles) having children via in vitro fertilization? You've never heard of women of "child bearing age" changing their minds about reproducing as their "time" comes to and end? Do you think this might be what the doctor is being cautious about?
Your comment is stupid. Stuuuuuuuuuupid.
http://cndyorks.gn.apc.org/yspace/articles/spacesu it_satellite.htm
Scroll to the header "Safety concerns"
We keep hearing about this supposed "problem" when GLOBAL WETTING is already upon us!
I agree with you - allow access per user as required from a central repository.
The data was stored in a proper enterprise system, the manager exported a report to Excel in order to distribute - nothing I can do to prevent stupidity with information rightfully obtained...
The industry at large (Microsoft being a big offender) has been trying to get us to a this magical place where everything is system and location independent and this is where we end up:
1) FTP sites in Windows Explorer look like regular Windows folders. People expect them to work like regular folders. I had a field sales force try to "share" an Excel spreadsheet expecting the others to get a "Read Only" copy just like would happen on a local network share. Overwriting madness ensued. You can't blame them, there was no indication that it would work differently. Asking them to understand FTP is like accounting expecting me to fully understand the accounting rules behind my IT purchases.
2) A manager where I used to work had an Excel spreadsheet with payroll data for the entire company. He wanted to send each department their subset of the data. So he filtered his spreadsheet and sent the filtered lists to each department not knowing that he was sending each department the whole list under teh covers. Luckily, the file was 30MB and choked in the mail server and I was able to bail him out of that huge mistake. But you really can't blame him - he saw something on the screen and sent "it". There should be an indication of underlying data. BTW, doing a cut and paste special made each file about 25k or so.
Same thing with this PDF error. If your file shows certain information, it should contain that information only or indicate (or warn) otherwise.
By "simplifying" everything, nobody knows what's really going on. A couple times per week I have to explain some type of issue to some user about how "It's really more complicated than that, see Windows (or an app) hides this from you." User roll eyes as their simple task has become obscurely complicated - all in the name of making things "easier" to understand, ironically.
If something works different, it should be displayed different - that at least gives the user a chance to question what they are doing.
Bill Gates' tombstone will read
You mean his BSOD - Blue (Tomb)Stone of Death
Of course, mounting your kill is perfectly acceptable.
Dibs on Marcia Clark!
If you want to mount her, be my guest!
So, what happens when you get too close to another rare earth magnet? I would expect bad things.
Well, they are rare so what are the chances...
Basically, capacitors have their place (namely, smoothing voltages, or storing small amounts of power for quick discharge, i.e. camera flash)
Or like a hybrid vehicle.
As capacitor tech improves, you may get away with a 20hp gas engine if you can supplement it with 80hp of electric assist when needed, such as when accelerating. You may find that after a run of hard acceleration, your engine labors for a minute or two to recharge the capacitor, even if you suddenly stopped, thus filling up the reserve and keeping the gas engine operating more in a range that it is most efficient.
Like the steady charge "battery station" mentioned elswhere but on the other end.
Applications used to be a deal-breaker, but I have been using OpenOffice.org recently and it is, if anything, better than Office for my purposes.
You obviously aren't supporting a business.
"Um, it doesn't work like Office that I have at home. Can you come to my house and set me up there?"
"We've been using this Marco-laden Excel spreadsheet for the last 8 years and it doesn't work"
"I can't open all my Excel-embedded-into-powerpoint-embedded-into-Word files"
"This doesn't work like what I used at my last job."
"I got this file from a customer/vendor and it doesn't open right"
"I sent my file to a customer/vendor and they don't open right"
Now try telling Mr. Grouchy-old-guy Executive that your frustrating the hell out of him and all the people he employs all in the name of your software religion (as legitimate as it may be).
Now multiply that by 175 users in 5 offices across 4 times zones and two countries and tell me it's worth Microsoft bashing and open-source evangelizing. It's not - not even close.
Not until we have 100% file compatibility (i.e. 100% open document standard adoption) will Office alternatives become even close to adoption. And for that you need Microsoft to stop "innovating" outside the agreed upon standards. You know, like they did with IE - not.
....once they install the polyp-blasting LASER!
The question is - Is Microsoft #2 becasue of THIS page or despite it?
The L.A. Times just ran an article about those who mountain bike in the dark to accomodate a busy life. I ride with the featured club twice a week and even though a geek and someone who grew up with asthma, my cardio capability has increased many-fold in the two years since adopting this practice. And when I come back to work the next day after a ride, I feel more flexible and have much much less back, neck, and shoulder stiffness/pain/headaches.
So although I work for a high-pressure "full commitment"-type IT job in this company (200 desktops in five locations on both coasts and two contries and an IT staff of "me" for everything from desktop support to network to web app programming), I can jet out of work at 5pm, catch an evening ride and come back at the perfect time to do server/network or some "leave me alone and let me write code" work.