As to the 1979 CS degree, is there such a thing? PCs only existed since about 1984's so any degree he had has no relevance at all to modern computing. Who care what he did on PDP11s in Fortran?
"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - Edsger Dijkstra
Dude, I hate to break this to you, but there's a huge problem with your backup script. It won't backup any of the dot files in your home directory. What you really want to be doing is:
#### backup.sh #####
cp -r home/me/dev/null
Phew. Aren't you glad I caught that for you or what.
Seriously. It is much, much harder to keep records electronically than to throw the pieces of paper into a file cabinet and forget about it. This is well documented.
On a serious note, this is dead wrong. Parent only pretends to cite (an unnamed) authority. Perhaps it's true for a specific case, but I decided to scan a few dozen sheets of paper about three years ago, and only maintain electronic records going forward. This has been one of the best decisions are made, even better than I imagined it would be. In the past, there would constantly be paper around the house, and I would never know whether I would lose something by trashing a certain piece of paper. In addition, whenever I needed something, I would invariably end up turning the whole house inside out for hours, and still not find what I wanted. Now, I name my scanned files with keywords, and in the worst case scenario, I wait for about 20 seconds for a file system search to complete.
Submitter: I had access to a high-end sheet feeder at work which I used, so I can't be of much help with your main question, but I can tell you that it is a highly worthwhile endeavor to go paperless, based on three years of personal experience. After you get done scanning your initial load, the key for the future is to set up your work space, equipment, and workflow, so that you spend a very minimal amount of time and effort scanning something, typing a few keywords, and recycling the paper.
It is much, much harder to keep records electronically than to throw the pieces of paper into a file cabinet and forget about it. This is well documented.
Is the documentation that you speak of electronic or has it been filed on paper somewhere? Wait a second, given your lack of citation, I think I know the answer....;)
This should be illegal! Just because I want to jot down notes on my phone doesn't mean I should be forced to pay $30 every month to ATT! This is just one of the effects of few large monopolies. Another well known example: texting plan rates were hiked up in lockstep by the monopolies. Yet another effect of a market with few, large monopolies: high rates for customers.
On a yearly basis, American cell phone users are spending about $635.85 on cell phone service. [...]By contrast people in the Netherlands and Finland pay the lowest amount for cell phone service, only $131.44 per year. And cell phone users in Sweden only pay $137.94 per year. Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10307726-94.html
Why on earth would we want to allow even fewer and even larger monopolies?
This should be illegal! Just because I want to jot down notes on my phone doesn't mean I should be forced to pay $30 every month to ATT! This is just one of the effects of few large monopolies. Another well known example: texting plan rates were hiked up in lockstep by the monopolies. Yet another effect of a market with few, large monopolies: high rates for customers.
On a yearly basis, American cell phone users are spending about $635.85 on cell phone service. [...]By contrast people in the Netherlands and Finland pay the lowest amount for cell phone service, only $131.44 per year. And cell phone users in Sweden only pay $137.94 per year. Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10307726-94.html
Why on earth would we want to allow even fewer and even larger monopolies?
On that note, a quick suggestion: try ion3 (google for it). It's not just a tiling window manager, it's a tiling-tabbing manager. It works great on multi-screen desktops (because it has tiling), but works just as great on netbooks (because it has tabbing (yeah!) and also unlimited virtual workspaces (desktops)). It's minimal (300k total), and barely takes a few 10 milliseconds to start. The tiling/tabbing/workspace metaphor it uses is brilliant.
It compiles easily, is highly configurable, and has never, not once, crashed on me in 4+ years. Extremely well written and well designed. I can't live without it any more, on 3x 27" screens or one 8.9" screen.
Warren Buffet's quote below seems very relevant here:
I don't have a problem with guilt about money. The way I see it is that my money represents an enormous number of claim checks on society. It's like I have these little pieces of paper that I can turn into consumption. If I wanted to, I could hire 10,000 people to do nothing but paint my picture every day for the rest of my life. And the GDP would go up. But the utility of the product would be zilch, and I would be keeping those 10,000 people from doing AIDS research, or teaching, or nursing. I don't do that though. I don't use very many of those claim checks. There's nothing material I want very much. And I'm going to give virtually all of those claim checks to charity when my wife and I die. (Lowe 1997:165–166)
So the guy with "TechForensics" for his username is convincing you to use a technical solution for all your paperwork. Somebody feeling a little bit of job insecurity here?;)
This doesn't prevent us from laughing at creationists.
Great. Thanks for loudly announcing our plans to the Texans. Seen soon: "Texas Bill Outlaws Laughing Against Creationists In Academia, in Public, and even on/."
...was really rather surprised just this past week to see a news article say that gmail actually scrapes the content of your mail for targetted advertising...
I'm trying to move somewhere to reduce my heating/cooling bills. So that cave you've been living in: does the temperature stay constant throughout the year?
Slashdot Mirror
You 32-bit show-off. In medieval times, that counted for like 16 words.
Because he wasn't provided with leadership training in conducting discussions, you insensitive clod!
It's the /. editors who are pirates. And dupe posting buffoons:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/06/05/2332224/china-secretly-clones-austrian-village
Oh, the suspense!! I cannot take it any more! Which did he pick?!?!? What did he do?????
"Tracking": is that our new euphemism for dupes? "Slashdot tracked eight stories this week." Sounds classy. I like it!
As to the 1979 CS degree, is there such a thing? PCs only existed since about 1984's so any degree he had has no relevance at all to modern computing. Who care what he did on PDP11s in Fortran?
"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - Edsger Dijkstra
The parent was making a reference to this: http://xkcd.com/327/
Dude, I hate to break this to you, but there's a huge problem with your backup script. It won't backup any of the dot files in your home directory. What you really want to be doing is:
/dev/null
#### backup.sh #####
cp -r home/me
Phew. Aren't you glad I caught that for you or what.
You should be ashamed. That's really not a very wholesome joke.....;)
A zero-sum strategy. Ahhahh, your user id -- it all makes sense now!
Seriously. It is much, much harder to keep records electronically than to throw the pieces of paper into a file cabinet and forget about it. This is well documented.
On a serious note, this is dead wrong. Parent only pretends to cite (an unnamed) authority. Perhaps it's true for a specific case, but I decided to scan a few dozen sheets of paper about three years ago, and only maintain electronic records going forward. This has been one of the best decisions are made, even better than I imagined it would be. In the past, there would constantly be paper around the house, and I would never know whether I would lose something by trashing a certain piece of paper. In addition, whenever I needed something, I would invariably end up turning the whole house inside out for hours, and still not find what I wanted. Now, I name my scanned files with keywords, and in the worst case scenario, I wait for about 20 seconds for a file system search to complete.
Submitter: I had access to a high-end sheet feeder at work which I used, so I can't be of much help with your main question, but I can tell you that it is a highly worthwhile endeavor to go paperless, based on three years of personal experience. After you get done scanning your initial load, the key for the future is to set up your work space, equipment, and workflow, so that you spend a very minimal amount of time and effort scanning something, typing a few keywords, and recycling the paper.
It is much, much harder to keep records electronically than to throw the pieces of paper into a file cabinet and forget about it. This is well documented.
Is the documentation that you speak of electronic or has it been filed on paper somewhere? Wait a second, given your lack of citation, I think I know the answer....;)
It's already turning out that with most carriers, I can't use a smartphone on their network without being automatically charged for a data plan. ATT uses IMEI lookups to charge you:
http://www.bgr.com/2009/08/21/att-to-require-smartphone-data-plans-starting-september-6th/
This should be illegal! Just because I want to jot down notes on my phone doesn't mean I should be forced to pay $30 every month to ATT! This is just one of the effects of few large monopolies. Another well known example: texting plan rates were hiked up in lockstep by the monopolies. Yet another effect of a market with few, large monopolies: high rates for customers.
On a yearly basis, American cell phone users are spending about $635.85 on cell phone service. [...]By contrast people in the Netherlands and Finland pay the lowest amount for cell phone service, only $131.44 per year. And cell phone users in Sweden only pay $137.94 per year. Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10307726-94.html
Why on earth would we want to allow even fewer and even larger monopolies?
It's already turning out that with most carriers, I can't use a smartphone on their network without being automatically charged for a data plan. ATT uses IMEI lookups to charge you:
http://www.bgr.com/2009/08/21/att-to-require-smartphone-data-plans-starting-september-6th/
This should be illegal! Just because I want to jot down notes on my phone doesn't mean I should be forced to pay $30 every month to ATT! This is just one of the effects of few large monopolies. Another well known example: texting plan rates were hiked up in lockstep by the monopolies. Yet another effect of a market with few, large monopolies: high rates for customers.
On a yearly basis, American cell phone users are spending about $635.85 on cell phone service. [...]By contrast people in the Netherlands and Finland pay the lowest amount for cell phone service, only $131.44 per year. And cell phone users in Sweden only pay $137.94 per year. Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10307726-94.html
Why on earth would we want to allow even fewer and even larger monopolies?
Certain articles like defecation go a little over the top.
Wait, I thought that article had more to do with goings-on under the bottom....
On that note, a quick suggestion: try ion3 (google for it). It's not just a tiling window manager, it's a tiling-tabbing manager. It works great on multi-screen desktops (because it has tiling), but works just as great on netbooks (because it has tabbing (yeah!) and also unlimited virtual workspaces (desktops)). It's minimal (300k total), and barely takes a few 10 milliseconds to start. The tiling/tabbing/workspace metaphor it uses is brilliant.
It compiles easily, is highly configurable, and has never, not once, crashed on me in 4+ years. Extremely well written and well designed. I can't live without it any more, on 3x 27" screens or one 8.9" screen.
I don't have a problem with guilt about money. The way I see it is that my money represents an enormous number of claim checks on society. It's like I have these little pieces of paper that I can turn into consumption. If I wanted to, I could hire 10,000 people to do nothing but paint my picture every day for the rest of my life. And the GDP would go up. But the utility of the product would be zilch, and I would be keeping those 10,000 people from doing AIDS research, or teaching, or nursing. I don't do that though. I don't use very many of those claim checks. There's nothing material I want very much. And I'm going to give virtually all of those claim checks to charity when my wife and I die. (Lowe 1997:165–166)
Rest in Pease, Bob.
Don't underestimate your local cinema. It was just ahead of its time....
I guess you believe you have concrete reasons to be annoyed but your rant has likely concreted opinions that you're over-sensitive.
So the guy with "TechForensics" for his username is convincing you to use a technical solution for all your paperwork. Somebody feeling a little bit of job insecurity here? ;)
This doesn't prevent us from laughing at creationists.
Great. Thanks for loudly announcing our plans to the Texans. Seen soon: "Texas Bill Outlaws Laughing Against Creationists In Academia, in Public, and even on /."
And that's how, kids, Nixon ended up with two left feet.
Yes, he was his clothes. After all, you are what you wear (were)....
...was really rather surprised just this past week to see a news article say that gmail actually scrapes the content of your mail for targetted advertising...
I'm trying to move somewhere to reduce my heating/cooling bills. So that cave you've been living in: does the temperature stay constant throughout the year?