l admit I'm having a hard time fully understanding the question, but if this is an internal app for a single (small sounding) company, presumably on a web server on the LAN, could you just print from the server directly to a printer and not have to screw around with any of this web stuff?
So far as what browser, pick either Firefox or IE (or Safari if it's an Apple shop, which seems unlikely) and make it work there.
If this is a big company, pick IE, because they're not gonna let you install Firefox on all their workstations.
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I'm in IT (a fairly large department) for a quite large non-technology company.
Corporate desktop services rolled out Office 2007, starting some time last year. They also migrated us from the devil we knew (Lotus Notes) to the devil we didn't (Outlook + Exchange.)
It's been chaos. Total chaos. It took weeks-to-months for everyone to feel comfortable again, and still half a meeting occasionally gets taken up helping someone figure out how to do something rather than attending to the point of the meeting.
Hopefully Windows 7 (which they're threatening to do soon) won't be as bad. Fortunately very few people do anything major with Windows itself.
I've seen these glasses on display; they appear to be actual glass, although I could have been fooled. I didn't look very hard.
I assume the cadmium is in the paint on the exterior of the glass.
So it isn't a surface in contact with food.
It isn't a product that should be considered a toy. (FFS it's glass. Give the little darlings a nice razor blade to play with too.) So why does the "toy" standard apply?
I don't really get the recall at all, but McDonald's position, afaik, is that the cadmium levels are within legal limits, but the recall is being done to be sure of their customer's safety.
We get absolute crap on the front page sometimes, but this, which really seems like a serious and semi-thought-out legislative act related to science, is considered Idle.
If I ask someone how they are, it's because I either 1) care or 2) know they've got something going on and it's the right thing to do. (I honestly don't care that deeply, for example, about how their kid is doing, but if I know the kid has been projectile vomiting for the last two days, I really should ask.) Then I wait for an answer.
I finally realized that "How's it going?" is equivalent to "hi." That makes my life a lot better at work as people "how's it going" me as I walk down the hall. I had been trying to answer them!
Personally, I try to preempt with a "hi" or "good morning" instead and their name. And I don't even bother trying to answer the question of my status unless they stop and look like they want an answer, because I now know they don't care.
If I'm dining out and a waitress brings me a drink, I say "Thank you." If they ask if I'd like something, I say "yes, please" or "no, thank you." Maybe my mother just beat it into me (not literally) but I can't help myself and I think it's appropriate.
If I were a doctor, I'd probably ask the techs to "get Mrs. Jones's blood to the lab ASAP please" unless I was distracted with trying to keep Mrs. Jones alive, and even then I might well out of habit.
If you read the article, the goal of the "Please" isn't actually civility, it's to make the doctors think if the test is necessary. I assume there's some higher cost to weekend testing than week-day testing as it's a weekend policy.
To require it in a medical concept is nuts. If a doctor orders a test, he should expect it to happen without having to write some "magic word" on the order.
On average, programming these days is a thankless, underpaid, unstable job, likely to be outsourced to halfway around the world with no notice whatsoever.
Why would you want to do such a thing to your child?
Have to agree. I grew up (30 years ago) in a safe middle class neighborhood too (but without the u, because it was in the US.)
Just to give context - in high school, almost all the boys carried pocket knives. It was considered normal.
I remember, specifically, one incident when I was 7 or so that I wish would have ended with me standing up to an older kid rather than the way it did (crying and running home.)
The worst that would have happened was being knocked down and punched a couple times.
If you're in an environment where you're likely to get shot, stabbed or otherwise seriously injured then yeah, keep your head down and your mouth shut.
I was there 86 - 90 and remember both the old plasma screens and newer green-screen CRT displays. A lot of the plasma terminals didn't work very well so everyone preferred the CRT ones.
I hated using PLATO for physics class because the software was so picky about the answer, giving an "incorrect" for things a human probably would have marked as correct.
As I recall I actually used the PLATO terminals in the basement of the Foreign Language Building more than the ones at Loomis just because they were closer to where I was living.
Back when I owned auto repair shops I passed two or three of the tests, and I'm no mechanic. You don't want me working on your car - but I know a lot of the words and I test well.
Only reason I wasn't "ASE Certified" was I had the integrity to not lie about my experience.
It depends on exactly what car you have, but some of the idiot reminder lights don't require any equipment, but just complex manipulation of apparently irrelevant buttons (turn the radio power on, cycle the windows up and down, turn the ignition off, then to accessory, then back on, that sort of thing) or require two pins to be shorted together.
I can't tell based on the summary if we're talking about local TV or network broadcast TV. I didn't read the articles, of course - that's just absurd.
The summary talks about Two and a Half Men. That has nothing to do with local TV except that local stations are the distribution mechanism. The local TV stations could dry up and blow away. If the audience were there, the advertisers would be too, and we'd all watch it on Hulu or CBS.com.
Local TV is mostly about local news - sports, weather, traffic, and stupid human interest pieces. And occasionally hard news, when the mayor is caught stealing money or the school catches on fire.
I hate to state the obvious, but I'm going to anyway.
Go buy a NAS. Plug it in. Turn it on. Set it up. Move on.
Unless you find storage fun and sexy, that is. I don't, but different strokes for different folks.
I personally have a little ReadyNAS Duo in my basement, attached to the network. It's almost silent, small, and has a ton of different things you can turn on, and once it's set up, it just works.
It's only (only!) 1TB, mirrored on two drives. According to Netgear, if you want to move up to something bigger you can pull the drives out of it and put it in one of their larger devices later.
My only complaint with it is that it has a 100Mb network interface. I assumed that, being modern equipment, it would be Gb and didn't check the specs, so shame on me I guess.
Actually, never, ever, ever use notepad for programming.
If I see someone use notepad for programming at their desk (it's different if you're working on a test system to debug some script) my respect for them drops a few points.
There are so many good programmer's editors - with features that make you so much more efficient like syntax highlighting, brace-matching, etc - that for someone to use notepad, in my mind, brands them an amateur.
Figure out what keys you need at any given moment and only carry them.
I always carry mine in a pocket, usually pants, sometimes jacket.
On the way to work, I carry house keys (2), my car key, and the mailbox key. I badge in and out of work.
I keep my desk and docking station (work) keys in a drawer at work, hidden under some stuff. I only lock one cabinet, where I keep stuff like network cables and other things that tend to disappear, but I almost never use them, and my cube neighbors know where they are in case they need some of my stuff.
At work, i just carry the badge (required) and my car key. (If there's a fire, you want your car key. I got caught standing outside in the cold once when I could have gone home if I'd had my key.) The other keys just lay on top of my desk; if you're a worrier, you could put them in a drawer. I've never worked anywhere I worried about someone truly stealing stuff. (Swiping a network cable is different from stealing.)
If my wife and I go out, I just bring the house and mailbox keys, because she's happier driving and I'm happier not watching her shriek in fear while I drive. Her car has one of those "leave it in your pocket/purse" fobs, and I hate waiting to get in while she digs for her keys.
My wife, before she was my wife, lived about 2 hours away. We'd take turns driving on weekends to see each other. I know she had a key to my place - I worked on Saturday, and she'd often get there before I got home. I don't remember if I had a key to her place or not - probably - but she didn't work on Saturday.
I certainly don't see anything creepy about it.
Of course, I once gave a key to the furniture store so they could deliver stuff, and didn't get it back for a few months, so I'm probably not the best person to talk about security. (I was renting some space from the store owner, so I kind of knew them.)
So, prior to social security, people hit "retirement age," promptly quit their jobs, lived on the street and starved to death?
Obviously absurd.
I don't know for sure, but I would assume they worked as long as they were able to physically and mentally. After that, if they had no savings, they may have lived on the street, may have gone to a "poor house", or may have lived with relatives or depended on the kindness and charity of others.
I'm just sitting here in the USA all curious - it looks like one should be able to take a train from London to Moscow and from Moscow to Beijing, and I assume one can fly from either Moscow or Beijing to the US.
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l admit I'm having a hard time fully understanding the question, but if this is an internal app for a single (small sounding) company, presumably on a web server on the LAN, could you just print from the server directly to a printer and not have to screw around with any of this web stuff?
So far as what browser, pick either Firefox or IE (or Safari if it's an Apple shop, which seems unlikely) and make it work there.
If this is a big company, pick IE, because they're not gonna let you install Firefox on all their workstations.
I'm in IT (a fairly large department) for a quite large non-technology company.
Corporate desktop services rolled out Office 2007, starting some time last year. They also migrated us from the devil we knew (Lotus Notes) to the devil we didn't (Outlook + Exchange.)
It's been chaos. Total chaos. It took weeks-to-months for everyone to feel comfortable again, and still half a meeting occasionally gets taken up helping someone figure out how to do something rather than attending to the point of the meeting.
Hopefully Windows 7 (which they're threatening to do soon) won't be as bad. Fortunately very few people do anything major with Windows itself.
OK, I actually read some of the linked articles. (I know, it's crazy.)
The recall now makes a lot more sense to me.
I've seen these glasses on display; they appear to be actual glass, although I could have been fooled. I didn't look very hard.
I assume the cadmium is in the paint on the exterior of the glass.
So it isn't a surface in contact with food.
It isn't a product that should be considered a toy. (FFS it's glass. Give the little darlings a nice razor blade to play with too.) So why does the "toy" standard apply?
I don't really get the recall at all, but McDonald's position, afaik, is that the cadmium levels are within legal limits, but the recall is being done to be sure of their customer's safety.
We get absolute crap on the front page sometimes, but this, which really seems like a serious and semi-thought-out legislative act related to science, is considered Idle.
WTF?
That's probably the one waiter:customer interaction where I usually don't throw in a please. Usually a thank-you tho.
Waiter: What can I get you tonight?
Me: I'll have the buffalo avacado burger with fries.
Waiter: OK, thanks. I'll get that right in.
Me: Thank you.
I do just say "fine" or "alright" or whatever.
By the time I get that single word out they're practically out of sight.
If you mean "hello, I'm acknowledging your presence" then say "hi" or "hello" or "good morning" or "fuck off."
If you ask me "how's it going" stick around for the half second it takes to hear my "fine."
The "How's it going?" drives me crazy.
If I ask someone how they are, it's because I either 1) care or 2) know they've got something going on and it's the right thing to do. (I honestly don't care that deeply, for example, about how their kid is doing, but if I know the kid has been projectile vomiting for the last two days, I really should ask.) Then I wait for an answer.
I finally realized that "How's it going?" is equivalent to "hi." That makes my life a lot better at work as people "how's it going" me as I walk down the hall. I had been trying to answer them!
Personally, I try to preempt with a "hi" or "good morning" instead and their name. And I don't even bother trying to answer the question of my status unless they stop and look like they want an answer, because I now know they don't care.
Ugh, wish slashdot had post-post edit. "in a medical concept"? WTF does that mean?
I meant "In a medical context. ..."
In general, I totally disagree.
If I'm dining out and a waitress brings me a drink, I say "Thank you." If they ask if I'd like something, I say "yes, please" or "no, thank you." Maybe my mother just beat it into me (not literally) but I can't help myself and I think it's appropriate.
If I were a doctor, I'd probably ask the techs to "get Mrs. Jones's blood to the lab ASAP please" unless I was distracted with trying to keep Mrs. Jones alive, and even then I might well out of habit.
If you read the article, the goal of the "Please" isn't actually civility, it's to make the doctors think if the test is necessary. I assume there's some higher cost to weekend testing than week-day testing as it's a weekend policy.
To require it in a medical concept is nuts. If a doctor orders a test, he should expect it to happen without having to write some "magic word" on the order.
On average, programming these days is a thankless, underpaid, unstable job, likely to be outsourced to halfway around the world with no notice whatsoever.
Why would you want to do such a thing to your child?
Have to agree. I grew up (30 years ago) in a safe middle class neighborhood too (but without the u, because it was in the US.)
Just to give context - in high school, almost all the boys carried pocket knives. It was considered normal.
I remember, specifically, one incident when I was 7 or so that I wish would have ended with me standing up to an older kid rather than the way it did (crying and running home.)
The worst that would have happened was being knocked down and punched a couple times.
If you're in an environment where you're likely to get shot, stabbed or otherwise seriously injured then yeah, keep your head down and your mouth shut.
I was there 86 - 90 and remember both the old plasma screens and newer green-screen CRT displays. A lot of the plasma terminals didn't work very well so everyone preferred the CRT ones.
I hated using PLATO for physics class because the software was so picky about the answer, giving an "incorrect" for things a human probably would have marked as correct.
As I recall I actually used the PLATO terminals in the basement of the Foreign Language Building more than the ones at Loomis just because they were closer to where I was living.
They are slowly doing this, they just have to do it slowly.
For example, 16-bit programs don't work on 64-bit Windows.
Agreed, ASE means nothing.
Back when I owned auto repair shops I passed two or three of the tests, and I'm no mechanic. You don't want me working on your car - but I know a lot of the words and I test well.
Only reason I wasn't "ASE Certified" was I had the integrity to not lie about my experience.
It depends on exactly what car you have, but some of the idiot reminder lights don't require any equipment, but just complex manipulation of apparently irrelevant buttons (turn the radio power on, cycle the windows up and down, turn the ignition off, then to accessory, then back on, that sort of thing) or require two pins to be shorted together.
Ask Google about your car.
How much do you think a container costs?
You can buy as many as you want on eBay for $1500 each.
I can't tell based on the summary if we're talking about local TV or network broadcast TV. I didn't read the articles, of course - that's just absurd.
The summary talks about Two and a Half Men. That has nothing to do with local TV except that local stations are the distribution mechanism. The local TV stations could dry up and blow away. If the audience were there, the advertisers would be too, and we'd all watch it on Hulu or CBS.com.
Local TV is mostly about local news - sports, weather, traffic, and stupid human interest pieces. And occasionally hard news, when the mayor is caught stealing money or the school catches on fire.
I hate to state the obvious, but I'm going to anyway.
Go buy a NAS. Plug it in. Turn it on. Set it up. Move on.
Unless you find storage fun and sexy, that is. I don't, but different strokes for different folks.
I personally have a little ReadyNAS Duo in my basement, attached to the network. It's almost silent, small, and has a ton of different things you can turn on, and once it's set up, it just works.
It's only (only!) 1TB, mirrored on two drives. According to Netgear, if you want to move up to something bigger you can pull the drives out of it and put it in one of their larger devices later.
My only complaint with it is that it has a 100Mb network interface. I assumed that, being modern equipment, it would be Gb and didn't check the specs, so shame on me I guess.
Actually, never, ever, ever use notepad for programming.
If I see someone use notepad for programming at their desk (it's different if you're working on a test system to debug some script) my respect for them drops a few points.
There are so many good programmer's editors - with features that make you so much more efficient like syntax highlighting, brace-matching, etc - that for someone to use notepad, in my mind, brands them an amateur.
Figure out what keys you need at any given moment and only carry them.
I always carry mine in a pocket, usually pants, sometimes jacket.
On the way to work, I carry house keys (2), my car key, and the mailbox key. I badge in and out of work.
I keep my desk and docking station (work) keys in a drawer at work, hidden under some stuff. I only lock one cabinet, where I keep stuff like network cables and other things that tend to disappear, but I almost never use them, and my cube neighbors know where they are in case they need some of my stuff.
At work, i just carry the badge (required) and my car key. (If there's a fire, you want your car key. I got caught standing outside in the cold once when I could have gone home if I'd had my key.) The other keys just lay on top of my desk; if you're a worrier, you could put them in a drawer. I've never worked anywhere I worried about someone truly stealing stuff. (Swiping a network cable is different from stealing.)
If my wife and I go out, I just bring the house and mailbox keys, because she's happier driving and I'm happier not watching her shriek in fear while I drive. Her car has one of those "leave it in your pocket/purse" fobs, and I hate waiting to get in while she digs for her keys.
Yep, me too.
My wife, before she was my wife, lived about 2 hours away. We'd take turns driving on weekends to see each other. I know she had a key to my place - I worked on Saturday, and she'd often get there before I got home. I don't remember if I had a key to her place or not - probably - but she didn't work on Saturday.
I certainly don't see anything creepy about it.
Of course, I once gave a key to the furniture store so they could deliver stuff, and didn't get it back for a few months, so I'm probably not the best person to talk about security. (I was renting some space from the store owner, so I kind of knew them.)
So, prior to social security, people hit "retirement age," promptly quit their jobs, lived on the street and starved to death?
Obviously absurd.
I don't know for sure, but I would assume they worked as long as they were able to physically and mentally. After that, if they had no savings, they may have lived on the street, may have gone to a "poor house", or may have lived with relatives or depended on the kindness and charity of others.
It'd be a hell of a lot more interesting than sleeping in an airport, though.
And be something, potentially, to tell the grandkids about.
I'm just sitting here in the USA all curious - it looks like one should be able to take a train from London to Moscow and from Moscow to Beijing, and I assume one can fly from either Moscow or Beijing to the US.
Did anyone do that?
I guess there could be visa challenges.