Then they shouldn't have let it get like that in the first place and/or they should pay him for that extra time. Telling someone that the extra time they do will be compensated with time off later (that is what you americans mean when you say "comp time" right?) but not ever letting them take it or paying them overtime for it is just plain evil IMO.
Helping an employee relocate (outside of a country or block of countries that allows free movement between members) is a lot of beaurocracy and there are often rules that you have to take local candidates if they are availible so an employer is only likely to pick someone who is not already a resident if they can't find anyone else.
If you want to move outside of your block (regardless of which block that is or which one you are moving to) then you pretty much have to get a skill that there is a shortage of. This will let you get your first job which in turn will probablly let you get a permanent residency and possiblly even citizenship eventually.
I dunno what the technical reason is if any but afaict most people perceive yellow and green as distinct colors while cyan and magenta are percieved as variants of blue and red.
The trouble is even if you are right and the courts agree you are right lawsuits are expensive, and if you are an international operation things are much worse since they can hit you with lawsuits in multiple countries increasing both the cost to defend yourself and the chance that they will get a descision against you (either due to a bad court or due to one of the countries having less friendly laws than the others).
Look at lindows for an example of a company that won it's trademark battle in the US but then realised that fighting the cases MS was throwing at them in other jurisdictions was a lost cause and ended up selling thier name to MS.
small size 12 inch while larger than most netbooks is quite a bit smaller than most basic laptops.
light weight Again while heavier than most laptops lighter than most basic laptops.
low cost Ok so the 12 inch netbooks seem to be a little more expensive than the most basic of ordinary laptops but quite a bit cheaper than getting an ordinary laptop with XP (you get hit with a double or tripple whammy here, to get XP on a normal laptop you have to pick a more expensive range, pay the extra for vista buisness and then sometimes pay extra for the downgrade itself).
So where do you draw the line? Why should there BE a line? I'd much rather there was a range of devices and I could chose the point in that range that best suited me.
12 inch while big by netbook standards is still quite a bit smaller than most other cheap laptops on the market and for some people it may be the best compromise (personally I'd rather pay a bit more to have the functionality of the 12 inch models crammed into a 10 inch).
Because he said nothing about font sizes? Font sizes are absolute. They do not depend on the amount of pixels you have. More pixels means sharper fonts, that is all. Font sizes depend on how the actual DPI of the screen relates to the assumed DPI of the screen.
On windows at least the interface in lots of apps breaks if you change the assumed DPI away from it's default value. So in reality the size of text on screen is a function of the screen resoloution.
Unfortunately, it's 5-8x as expensive. Which means unless you are very rich or have taken out some expensive loss/breakage insurance you will be forever worrying about losing/breaking it.
App developers optimise arround the minimum screen size they think a significant proportion of thier userbase will have. For a number of years that was 1024x768 then suddenly netbooks started appearing with lower resoloutions. With some apps it's not a problem, others either plain won't fit or will leave so little useful screen area that you won't want to use them.
Also I suspect our expectations have increased, if living with a very cramped screen is all you've ever known you won't wish too hard for anything better.
Personally i'm waiting for a 10 inch machine with 768 vertical pixels. They are already availible in the US afaict and should be availible soon here in the UK too (there are already sites taking preorders for them)
I'm eyeing the 11.6 notebooks, with ~1300x768 resolution, because they are the first workable machines for me (1024x600 res of the 10" just isn't enough although I would buy a smaller one if the resolution was up to par). 10 inch machines with that screen resoloution do exist at what I would consider a tollerable price ( £500). They have been availible in the US for a while and it looks like they will soon be appearing here in the uk as well (there are a couple of models here in the UK availible for preorder now, one from sony and a couple from HP).
And what happens if the bankrupcy liquidator can't find anyone who wants to buy that bit of land because the cost of mandated cleanup work makes it's effective value negative?
While forking is an option it can be a lot of work for little reward if noone picks up on your fork.
I'd say the first thing to do is try to figure out the following (some of theese will probablly overlap in thier answers)
1: Why is the maintainer not responding? is it because they dont like your patches, because they are overworked or simply because they are no longer involved in the project at all 2: are other users of the project experiancing similar problems. 3: is the project included with major linux distros (debian, fedora, suse etc) and if so what are they doing. 4: when was the last upstream release and does it look like there will ever be another one.
If you do fork you don't want to do it alone, if at all possible you want to get the distros and as much of the userbase on side as you can first.
Except that there's too many small variations in model years unlike in the Dells so you can only "transplant" parts from the exact same model year rather than a 2-3 year line. OTOH dell has a lot more lines running at once.
Though you could (and I pretty much did) get through it mostly by guesswork and brute force, the only real point where you had to be a bit carefull was alcatraz (since you needed a taxi token to get there and another to get away and you could only make one attempt at returning the artifact per visit.
The third way is to have an approach where modules/drivers can be built and loaded seperately from the main kernel but are still loaded into the same address space and run in kernel mode. Afaict this is the way that both windows and linux ended up going.
Also note that airliners nowadays have TCAS and pilots are trained that they obey TCAS over anything else (including ATC)
So provided TCAS works correctly mid air collisions involving airliners should not happen even if ATC or someone posing as ATC orders two planes onto a collision course.
You mean like all those poor astronauts that died the first few times we went to the Moon? Lets see, they had a shitload of successively more and more ambitious trials before the mission to land on the moon and during those trials they lost a crew. Then of the seven missions where they actually intended to make a moon landing one resulted in a loss of mission and came very close to a loss of crew.
Still even that record is indeed pretty good for a project that ambitious.
Yeah. Perhaps 7 is greater than Vista. But, I doubt 7 will be necessarily greater than XP. I wish Microsoft would spend more time perfecting XP, but thankfully you can still get XP via OEM. For the moment yes but how long will it be before MS pulls the plug on that and forces everyone who wants XP on new machines to buy volume licenses?
so we don't get a blister-packed $99 netbook. Mobile phones are still pretty expensive if you pay full price for them (here in the UK even payg phones are subsidised to some extent by the carriers). Looks like it's about $70 for a basic phone and goes up dramatically for the ones with larger screens (even the basic phones seem to support downloadable apps theese days).
It seems crazy to me to expect a netbook to be similar in price or cheaper than a smartphone with a much smaller lower resoloution screen any time soon.
I see plenty of 9 inch models still availible for those who want that. They just aren't the hot new thing at the moment. Heck you can still find the eee 700 series pretty easilly (like off the shelf in high street stores) if you really want one.
Heck over here the mobile phone companies are giving away the lower end netbooks if you take out a mobile broadband contract to go with them.
But it's barely smaller than the macbook I have now which I have decided is a bit on the big side for using on the go.
TBH unless you are gaming (which afaict all netbooks are pretty poor at) or running some power hungry specalist software CPU and graphics aren't too much of a concern. Storage was an issue with the flash based netbooks but with the hdd ones I can go as high as with regular laptops. On a screen that size do you really need anything better than DVD?
Screen resoloution is the biggest issue now as far as i'm concerned. Too much stuff was written with the assuption that screens were going to be at least 1024x768.
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Then they shouldn't have let it get like that in the first place and/or they should pay him for that extra time. Telling someone that the extra time they do will be compensated with time off later (that is what you americans mean when you say "comp time" right?) but not ever letting them take it or paying them overtime for it is just plain evil IMO.
Helping an employee relocate (outside of a country or block of countries that allows free movement between members) is a lot of beaurocracy and there are often rules that you have to take local candidates if they are availible so an employer is only likely to pick someone who is not already a resident if they can't find anyone else.
If you want to move outside of your block (regardless of which block that is or which one you are moving to) then you pretty much have to get a skill that there is a shortage of. This will let you get your first job which in turn will probablly let you get a permanent residency and possiblly even citizenship eventually.
I dunno what the technical reason is if any but afaict most people perceive yellow and green as distinct colors while cyan and magenta are percieved as variants of blue and red.
The trouble is even if you are right and the courts agree you are right lawsuits are expensive, and if you are an international operation things are much worse since they can hit you with lawsuits in multiple countries increasing both the cost to defend yourself and the chance that they will get a descision against you (either due to a bad court or due to one of the countries having less friendly laws than the others).
Look at lindows for an example of a company that won it's trademark battle in the US but then realised that fighting the cases MS was throwing at them in other jurisdictions was a lost cause and ended up selling thier name to MS.
Again while heavier than most laptops lighter than most basic laptops.
Sorry that should have been
Again while heavier than most netbooks lighter than most basic laptops.
small size
12 inch while larger than most netbooks is quite a bit smaller than most basic laptops.
light weight
Again while heavier than most laptops lighter than most basic laptops.
low cost
Ok so the 12 inch netbooks seem to be a little more expensive than the most basic of ordinary laptops but quite a bit cheaper than getting an ordinary laptop with XP (you get hit with a double or tripple whammy here, to get XP on a normal laptop you have to pick a more expensive range, pay the extra for vista buisness and then sometimes pay extra for the downgrade itself).
So where do you draw the line?
Why should there BE a line? I'd much rather there was a range of devices and I could chose the point in that range that best suited me.
12 inch while big by netbook standards is still quite a bit smaller than most other cheap laptops on the market and for some people it may be the best compromise (personally I'd rather pay a bit more to have the functionality of the 12 inch models crammed into a 10 inch).
Because he said nothing about font sizes? Font sizes are absolute. They do not depend on the amount of pixels you have. More pixels means sharper fonts, that is all.
Font sizes depend on how the actual DPI of the screen relates to the assumed DPI of the screen.
On windows at least the interface in lots of apps breaks if you change the assumed DPI away from it's default value. So in reality the size of text on screen is a function of the screen resoloution.
Unfortunately, it's 5-8x as expensive.
Which means unless you are very rich or have taken out some expensive loss/breakage insurance you will be forever worrying about losing/breaking it.
App developers optimise arround the minimum screen size they think a significant proportion of thier userbase will have. For a number of years that was 1024x768 then suddenly netbooks started appearing with lower resoloutions. With some apps it's not a problem, others either plain won't fit or will leave so little useful screen area that you won't want to use them.
Also I suspect our expectations have increased, if living with a very cramped screen is all you've ever known you won't wish too hard for anything better.
Personally i'm waiting for a 10 inch machine with 768 vertical pixels. They are already availible in the US afaict and should be availible soon here in the UK too (there are already sites taking preorders for them)
I'm eyeing the 11.6 notebooks, with ~1300x768 resolution, because they are the first workable machines for me (1024x600 res of the 10" just isn't enough although I would buy a smaller one if the resolution was up to par).
10 inch machines with that screen resoloution do exist at what I would consider a tollerable price ( £500). They have been availible in the US for a while and it looks like they will soon be appearing here in the uk as well (there are a couple of models here in the UK availible for preorder now, one from sony and a couple from HP).
And what happens if the bankrupcy liquidator can't find anyone who wants to buy that bit of land because the cost of mandated cleanup work makes it's effective value negative?
While forking is an option it can be a lot of work for little reward if noone picks up on your fork.
I'd say the first thing to do is try to figure out the following (some of theese will probablly overlap in thier answers)
1: Why is the maintainer not responding? is it because they dont like your patches, because they are overworked or simply because they are no longer involved in the project at all
2: are other users of the project experiancing similar problems.
3: is the project included with major linux distros (debian, fedora, suse etc) and if so what are they doing.
4: when was the last upstream release and does it look like there will ever be another one.
If you do fork you don't want to do it alone, if at all possible you want to get the distros and as much of the userbase on side as you can first.
Except that there's too many small variations in model years unlike in the Dells so you can only "transplant" parts from the exact same model year rather than a 2-3 year line.
OTOH dell has a lot more lines running at once.
Sounds like time for a class action to me.
mmm fun game I remember it well
Though you could (and I pretty much did) get through it mostly by guesswork and brute force, the only real point where you had to be a bit carefull was alcatraz (since you needed a taxi token to get there and another to get away and you could only make one attempt at returning the artifact per visit.
was it math rescue from apogee?
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The third way is to have an approach where modules/drivers can be built and loaded seperately from the main kernel but are still loaded into the same address space and run in kernel mode. Afaict this is the way that both windows and linux ended up going.
And the standards you have to follow to get a license for the unix trademark are a distinct thing again.
Also note that airliners nowadays have TCAS and pilots are trained that they obey TCAS over anything else (including ATC)
So provided TCAS works correctly mid air collisions involving airliners should not happen even if ATC or someone posing as ATC orders two planes onto a collision course.
You mean like all those poor astronauts that died the first few times we went to the Moon?
Lets see, they had a shitload of successively more and more ambitious trials before the mission to land on the moon and during those trials they lost a crew. Then of the seven missions where they actually intended to make a moon landing one resulted in a loss of mission and came very close to a loss of crew.
Still even that record is indeed pretty good for a project that ambitious.
Yeah. Perhaps 7 is greater than Vista. But, I doubt 7 will be necessarily greater than XP. I wish Microsoft would spend more time perfecting XP, but thankfully you can still get XP via OEM.
For the moment yes but how long will it be before MS pulls the plug on that and forces everyone who wants XP on new machines to buy volume licenses?
so we don't get a blister-packed $99 netbook.
Mobile phones are still pretty expensive if you pay full price for them (here in the UK even payg phones are subsidised to some extent by the carriers). Looks like it's about $70 for a basic phone and goes up dramatically for the ones with larger screens (even the basic phones seem to support downloadable apps theese days).
It seems crazy to me to expect a netbook to be similar in price or cheaper than a smartphone with a much smaller lower resoloution screen any time soon.
I see plenty of 9 inch models still availible for those who want that. They just aren't the hot new thing at the moment. Heck you can still find the eee 700 series pretty easilly (like off the shelf in high street stores) if you really want one.
Heck over here the mobile phone companies are giving away the lower end netbooks if you take out a mobile broadband contract to go with them.
But it's barely smaller than the macbook I have now which I have decided is a bit on the big side for using on the go.
TBH unless you are gaming (which afaict all netbooks are pretty poor at) or running some power hungry specalist software CPU and graphics aren't too much of a concern. Storage was an issue with the flash based netbooks but with the hdd ones I can go as high as with regular laptops. On a screen that size do you really need anything better than DVD?
Screen resoloution is the biggest issue now as far as i'm concerned. Too much stuff was written with the assuption that screens were going to be at least 1024x768.