I don't know a lot about XML, but the one thing I repeatedly hear is that it's dog-slow to parse... precisely because because you have to slurp in the entire thing, right?
BTW, Acrobat reader can be made fast. Just disable the 472 plugins you don't need. Three seconds with Google will fix that if you can't figure it out by looking at the file structure.
It depends what you are doing. I |###|do a lot of music editing, and
going to a 24" Dell has been a go|###|dsend. Maximizing a score means
I can see more staves/measures at|###| once, and spend less time scrolling.
If had 2 19" monitors, there woul|###|d be an unpleasant bar right down
the middle of my score, and invar|###|iably that would bisect a measure
which makes things a lot harder t|###|o read.
Right. We use bits of third-party propietary software, but now we always get a source license. We've gotten burned in the past by buying components in binary form.
Whoa, lighten up! First, I figured out the term many years ago, when I put "creative" in my browser blockfile.
Every industry has it's silly jargon, and it's fair game to make fun of any of them. I find that the term is funny and silly precisely because it looks like a grammatical error. It's even siller when used outside of its proper context, since most folks here are not in advertising, and are likely to misunderstand this industry-specific-jargon-that-looks-like-an-error.
I also find it hilarious that everyone on the credits page of the magazine is an editor, and nobody is a writer. If nobody writes any words, what do the editors have left to edit? (No need to defend your fellow editors: it's a joke.)
You buy it at the closing, the attorney usually manages it. If you see title insurance in your closing costs, it's likely "lender's title insurance". You need "owner's title insurace". You could buy it later, but it costs a lot more.
I also worked with a very attractive software engineer at Intel (Hi Stacy!) who made a point of mentioning her boyfriend whenever we got into non-technical discussions; it helps to put others at ease if they know you're already spoken for.
I hate people like that:
"Sorry I'm late to lunch, there was an accident on the Pike. I hate September."
"Yeah, my boyfriend doesn't like traffic either."
WTF? At that point, she might as well have just said: "You piece of shit, don't look at me and enjoy it. You can't control yourself enough to not hit on me."
How about just saying "no" when and if person who hits on you? Maybe some of us really are decent, don't have any intention of banging you, and don't like being presumed guilty.
When Stallman says "free" he doesn't mean price, he means freedom.
ARRRGHGHGHGHGHH!! If I read this once more I'll puke. Why doesn't the FSF rename itself to the Freedom Software Foundation and stop explaining it over and over and over and over and over and over...
To claim the "album is a single work" model, then they must always perform their entire album live, in order, with no changes. Otherwise the argument is pure bullshit.
I've never been to a Radiohead or Beatles show, but, I somehow think it would be impossible for them to play only an entire album at a time.
This happens in radio already. The local news station (1030 WBZ in Boston) constantly runs commercials masquerading as news reports - one that comes to mind is a Toyota commerical which is a faked up "interview" explaining how hybrid drive works. Turn on the station at the right time, and it sounds like an news clip that just happens to be talking about Toyota. No announcement of "paid advertisement" or anything.
I used to think this way, but after gigging for years with both types of people, I think it's this:
You need to be able to do both, but if one was more important, I'd say playing by ear is more important.
There are plently of amazing professional musicans who can't read a note of music, and it doesn't stop them. The music in inside them. They don't need paper to get it in, or out. Can Stevie Wonder read music?
However, there are scores of 8th grade kids and amateur adults who can read sheet music just fine, but it sounds like crap because they are thinking of it in terms of splotches of ink and finger movements, and not sound. They typically freeze when the music is taken away.
Find ANY highly-rated musician, making a living at it today - and you'll find that almost certainly they are a great reader and by-ear player. The best players can read anything, but don't need to.
Reading sheet music won't help you in a 4-piece rock band, and playing by-ear won't help you play in a studio orchestra recording a film score.
It's like language. You don't learn by the words first, you learn to speak it by mimcry. Then you learn to be literate, so you share ideas with people that aren't with you right now. You can't learn a foreign language by a dictionary alone. You'll have to be "lazy" and start mimcing the accent, tone, cadence, and all the other things that makes a language sound natural. Otherwise, you'll sound stilted and incorrect, just like the person who never learned to play anything by ear.
Till the moment they discover how to reconfigure their MAC to get a valid IP address (or just use a fixed IP from the proper pool); a thing they will do as soon as the policy goes in their way and expectations for the job to be done (like, "you need to mount this share to get this so important data for your this evening's presentation to that very important client).
Ha! The same people who think their computer is broken when two windows overlap, also know how to spoof MAC addresses or pick IP addresses?
Anyway, that's not the point. The idea is to minimize the number of Joes plugging completely anonymous machines into the LAN by default. If it's a corporate laptop, then you add it the MAC to the known list once you vet it and make sure it isn't infested with Punch The Monjey.
What's the difference about port 445 traffic on the LAN or through an VPN? (VPN==Virtual LAN).
Right, there is no difference, other than they can use it because they already know how to. Instead of whining at the admin for access post-haste, they can get their Important Work Done while requesting the laptop be authorized. I know that if I brough in a random laptop without consulting my admin first, he'd be pissed. Doubly so if it fucked something up.
IANANA (Network Admin) but can't you do something with DHCP and MAC indentification? Via DHCP, any MAC not in the pool of known workstations gets shunted into a private subnet that's outside the firewall.
In short, any laptop, by definition, is always outside the firewall.
If they really need to print or email or mount shares, then they should be using whatever sort of technology (VPN, IMAP/SSL, etc) to do that outside the network. Or walk to a workstation.
It's not only possible, it's easy. The main thing to watch is libraries.
Spoken like someone who's truly never done it.
Libraries are the hard part. Take a look at any non-trivial application and look to see how many libraries it takes for various things.
ldd/usr/local/firefox/firefox-bin | wc -l
43
Now, if I want to develop a big application, I will eventually need to do something that's already coded in some library. Maybe it's XML parsing or HTTP connections or SSL or whatever:
FOR EACH LIBRARY DO
1. Figure out *where* the license is.
2. Make an informed guess whether it's legal before you even try it.
3. Oh shit, it's the "libgumple Public License", not something obvious like GPL. Now I have to read 37 pages of legalese.
4. Give up, and forward it to the company lawyer who charges $500 an hour to say "No, you can't because of clause 33.4.2 paragraph 9, subsection B".
5. Write it ourselves, anyway or go without. Then deal with users that say: "Hey, Firefox does this, but you don't. Why can't you? How hard can it be?" DONE
This, by no means of the word, is "easy". It is time-consuming and expensive.
Big picture, investing a few thousand over two years isn't going to make much a difference. With such small principal, even if you do extremely well, you'll look at the interest at the end of two years and think "what a waste!". I would use the money to pay down any high-interest debt, or begin some long-term investing like an Roth IRA.
Instead, concentrate on the discipline of 1) saving and 2) spending less, far less, than you earn. This sounds easy and obvious, but most people just can't do it. The amount, 1%, 5%, 50%, it doesn't matter. If you can save 5% now when you're making very little, then when you're making ten times as much later on down the road, all of the sudden you are saving a huge amount of money every year. Then, you invest THAT.
I'm not going to disagree with you, the small things can add up quickly. But, there's a philosophy of how you spend things. I view spending as two very distinct categories, there's spending cash and there's spending income.
Buying a TV for cash is spending money. Getting a car loan or an apartment is spending income - you are committing that amount for a long time. Have a kid and feed him for 20 years, etc.
You have to be ten times as careful spending your income than when spending your cash - $50 here, $50 there, and your income can be all gone. Spend all your income, and you'll have no cash left to spend. Worse, spending income can change after the fact: energy rates go up, kids go to college, card rates go up, etc. So you need to have some pad in there - running it right up to the wire is disaster waiting to happen.
Every year or so I take a look at the income that I'm spending, and see what can I do to improve it. Refinance some higher rate loans? Drop insurance coverage on and old car? Get a better cell or long-distance plan? It's amazing how $20 here and there can add up to a lot. But sometimes the answer could be a little more drastic, as in "replace my Mustang with a 40MPG 4 banger" or "move into an cheaper apartment".
If you are outwardly middle-class, but struggling to keep that, then typically it's a hint that your lifestyle exceeds your income. I like a lot of padding, and would rather underspend with security, than drive fashionable cars or wear cool clothes, or even get extended basic cable.
As for saving, no lecture, but an opinion: Savings is an acquired habit. If you can save $10 a month, then you've established the habit, which is the most important thing. Then, it's easy enough to increase that slowly over time. If you can't save $10 a month, then you are too close to the edge of danger. So many people seem to think "But I can't save $1200 a month to put into a 401K! I need that for (something)" What, you think everyone started at that amount? You start really low, just to acquire the discipline, and slowly ramp it up from there.
Preservatives maybe, but also irradiation, and probably more genetically modified (GM) food.
Americans don't seem to care very much the latter. I hear some fury over it in Europe (love the BBC) but it just doesn't register here.
I don't think it has very much to do with the size of portions on the table. Maybe our portions are bigger but not THAT much. Sorry, nobody gives their kid a two-pound block of cheese with lunch, even here in the land of pigs and sloth.
Supermarkets do sell smaller sizes of things, but they are more expensive. For example, if I buy baby formula in small cans in the grocery store, it might be $22. At the local BJs (warehouse store), I can get a paint-can sized bucket that's more than twice the size for $20. So, less than half-price.
Now, my baby didn't drink any more formula than a European baby, so it's not consumption that's driving me to buy the bigger bucket. Price is obviously the big factor. But also is convenience: why buy the same thing every week, when I can buy a big bucket once a month? I have space to store it, why not use it? It's less trips to the store. (After all, we all are obese and driving 6-ton SUVs, so we should drive less, right?)
So, if I feel like paying twice as much for everything I could buy smaller sizes. For things that are nonperishable, that's just stupid. That's why you don't see enormous packs of lettuce.
An average meal in an American restaurant was about twice what I would normally eat, for example.
That's true, but that's only because Americans are usually obsessed with "good value" and a huge portion can make that seem the case. I just order less when we go out. Sometimes my wife and I will split a dinner if we know the portions are ridiculous.
But you can't blame just Americans. Compare portion sizes in Germany versus Italy and you'll see that what I mean. Germans have big one-course dinners, Italians have lots of small courses. If you order a multi-course dinner in Germany, you'll never finish.
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There are plenty of people who are really messed up because of it. Maybe you're just lucky?
I don't know a lot about XML, but the one thing I repeatedly hear is that it's dog-slow to parse... precisely because because you have to slurp in the entire thing, right?
BTW, Acrobat reader can be made fast. Just disable the 472 plugins you don't need. Three seconds with Google will fix that if you can't figure it out by looking at the file structure.
It depends what you are doing. I |###|do a lot of music editing, and
going to a 24" Dell has been a go|###|dsend. Maximizing a score means
I can see more staves/measures at|###| once, and spend less time scrolling.
If had 2 19" monitors, there woul|###|d be an unpleasant bar right down
the middle of my score, and invar|###|iably that would bisect a measure
which makes things a lot harder t|###|o read.
Right. We use bits of third-party propietary software, but now we always get a source license. We've gotten burned in the past by buying components in binary form.
Every industry has it's silly jargon, and it's fair game to make fun of any of them. I find that the term is funny and silly precisely because it looks like a grammatical error. It's even siller when used outside of its proper context, since most folks here are not in advertising, and are likely to misunderstand this industry-specific-jargon-that-looks-like-an-error.
I also find it hilarious that everyone on the credits page of the magazine is an editor, and nobody is a writer. If nobody writes any words, what do the editors have left to edit? (No need to defend your fellow editors: it's a joke.)
They could start by not using the word creative as a noun. It makes them sound like a stupid.
You buy it at the closing, the attorney usually manages it. If you see title insurance in your closing costs, it's likely "lender's title insurance". You need "owner's title insurace". You could buy it later, but it costs a lot more.
I hate people like that:
"Sorry I'm late to lunch, there was an accident on the Pike. I hate September."
"Yeah, my boyfriend doesn't like traffic either."
WTF? At that point, she might as well have just said: "You piece of shit, don't look at me and enjoy it. You can't control yourself enough to not hit on me."
How about just saying "no" when and if person who hits on you? Maybe some of us really are decent, don't have any intention of banging you, and don't like being presumed guilty.
Congratulations, you just invented the plot of a Broadway musical ("Urinetown").
ARRRGHGHGHGHGHH!! If I read this once more I'll puke. Why doesn't the FSF rename itself to the Freedom Software Foundation and stop explaining it over and over and over and over and over and over...
To claim the "album is a single work" model, then they must always perform their entire album live, in order, with no changes. Otherwise the argument is pure bullshit.
I've never been to a Radiohead or Beatles show, but, I somehow think it would be impossible for them to play only an entire album at a time.
This happens in radio already. The local news station (1030 WBZ in Boston) constantly runs commercials masquerading as news reports - one that comes to mind is a Toyota commerical which is a faked up "interview" explaining how hybrid drive works. Turn on the station at the right time, and it sounds like an news clip that just happens to be talking about Toyota. No announcement of "paid advertisement" or anything.
I have been touched by his noodly appendage!
None, but then again, we try to avoid others' noodly appendages.
I used to think this way, but after gigging for years with both types of people, I think it's this:
You need to be able to do both, but if one was more important, I'd say playing by ear is more important.
There are plently of amazing professional musicans who can't read a note of music, and it doesn't stop them. The music in inside them. They don't need paper to get it in, or out. Can Stevie Wonder read music?
However, there are scores of 8th grade kids and amateur adults who can read sheet music just fine, but it sounds like crap because they are thinking of it in terms of splotches of ink and finger movements, and not sound. They typically freeze when the music is taken away.
Find ANY highly-rated musician, making a living at it today - and you'll find that almost certainly they are a great reader and by-ear player. The best players can read anything, but don't need to.
Reading sheet music won't help you in a 4-piece rock band, and playing by-ear won't help you play in a studio orchestra recording a film score.
It's like language. You don't learn by the words first, you learn to speak it by mimcry. Then you learn to be literate, so you share ideas with people that aren't with you right now. You can't learn a foreign language by a dictionary alone. You'll have to be "lazy" and start mimcing the accent, tone, cadence, and all the other things that makes a language sound natural. Otherwise, you'll sound stilted and incorrect, just like the person who never learned to play anything by ear.
Ha! The same people who think their computer is broken when two windows overlap, also know how to spoof MAC addresses or pick IP addresses?
Anyway, that's not the point. The idea is to minimize the number of Joes plugging completely anonymous machines into the LAN by default. If it's a corporate laptop, then you add it the MAC to the known list once you vet it and make sure it isn't infested with Punch The Monjey.
What's the difference about port 445 traffic on the LAN or through an VPN? (VPN==Virtual LAN).
Right, there is no difference, other than they can use it because they already know how to. Instead of whining at the admin for access post-haste, they can get their Important Work Done while requesting the laptop be authorized. I know that if I brough in a random laptop without consulting my admin first, he'd be pissed. Doubly so if it fucked something up.
IANANA (Network Admin) but can't you do something with DHCP and MAC indentification? Via DHCP, any MAC not in the pool of known workstations gets shunted into a private subnet that's outside the firewall.
In short, any laptop, by definition, is always outside the firewall.
If they really need to print or email or mount shares, then they should be using whatever sort of technology (VPN, IMAP/SSL, etc) to do that outside the network. Or walk to a workstation.
Asleep at law school, but wide awake during political classes. Words don't need to be true to have the effect you want.
Get your own gun and shoot the frickin' speaker from a safe distance, then.
It's not only possible, it's easy. The main thing to watch is libraries.
/usr/local/firefox/firefox-bin | wc -l
Spoken like someone who's truly never done it.
Libraries are the hard part. Take a look at any non-trivial application and look to see how many libraries it takes for various things.
ldd
43
Now, if I want to develop a big application, I will eventually need to do something that's already coded in some library. Maybe it's XML parsing or HTTP connections or SSL or whatever:
FOR EACH LIBRARY DO
1. Figure out *where* the license is.
2. Make an informed guess whether it's legal before you even try it.
3. Oh shit, it's the "libgumple Public License", not something obvious like GPL. Now I have to read 37 pages of legalese.
4. Give up, and forward it to the company lawyer who charges $500 an hour to say "No, you can't because of clause 33.4.2 paragraph 9, subsection B".
5. Write it ourselves, anyway or go without. Then deal with users that say: "Hey, Firefox does this, but you don't. Why can't you? How hard can it be?"
DONE
This, by no means of the word, is "easy". It is time-consuming and expensive.
MOD PARENT UP! They've already made their money. they win even when they lose. Otherwise the actuary should be fired.
Big picture, investing a few thousand over two years isn't going to make much a difference. With such small principal, even if you do extremely well, you'll look at the interest at the end of two years and think "what a waste!". I would use the money to pay down any high-interest debt, or begin some long-term investing like an Roth IRA.
Instead, concentrate on the discipline of 1) saving and 2) spending less, far less, than you earn. This sounds easy and obvious, but most people just can't do it. The amount, 1%, 5%, 50%, it doesn't matter. If you can save 5% now when you're making very little, then when you're making ten times as much later on down the road, all of the sudden you are saving a huge amount of money every year. Then, you invest THAT.
I'm not going to disagree with you, the small things can add up quickly. But, there's a philosophy of how you spend things. I view spending as two very distinct categories, there's spending cash and there's spending income.
Buying a TV for cash is spending money. Getting a car loan or an apartment is spending income - you are committing that amount for a long time. Have a kid and feed him for 20 years, etc.
You have to be ten times as careful spending your income than when spending your cash - $50 here, $50 there, and your income can be all gone. Spend all your income, and you'll have no cash left to spend. Worse, spending income can change after the fact: energy rates go up, kids go to college, card rates go up, etc. So you need to have some pad in there - running it right up to the wire is disaster waiting to happen.
Every year or so I take a look at the income that I'm spending, and see what can I do to improve it. Refinance some higher rate loans? Drop insurance coverage on and old car? Get a better cell or long-distance plan? It's amazing how $20 here and there can add up to a lot. But sometimes the answer could be a little more drastic, as in "replace my Mustang with a 40MPG 4 banger" or "move into an cheaper apartment".
If you are outwardly middle-class, but struggling to keep that, then typically it's a hint that your lifestyle exceeds your income. I like a lot of padding, and would rather underspend with security, than drive fashionable cars or wear cool clothes, or even get extended basic cable.
As for saving, no lecture, but an opinion: Savings is an acquired habit. If you can save $10 a month, then you've established the habit, which is the most important thing. Then, it's easy enough to increase that slowly over time. If you can't save $10 a month, then you are too close to the edge of danger. So many people seem to think "But I can't save $1200 a month to put into a 401K! I need that for (something)" What, you think everyone started at that amount? You start really low, just to acquire the discipline, and slowly ramp it up from there.
Good luck. I hope things improve for you.
You don't need WGA to download critical updates. They will still automatically download. I haven't installed WGA yet and don't see any need to.
And, I do prefer Win2000, if it weren't for ClearType.
Preservatives maybe, but also irradiation, and probably more genetically modified (GM) food. Americans don't seem to care very much the latter. I hear some fury over it in Europe (love the BBC) but it just doesn't register here.
Supermarkets do sell smaller sizes of things, but they are more expensive. For example, if I buy baby formula in small cans in the grocery store, it might be $22. At the local BJs (warehouse store), I can get a paint-can sized bucket that's more than twice the size for $20. So, less than half-price.
Now, my baby didn't drink any more formula than a European baby, so it's not consumption that's driving me to buy the bigger bucket. Price is obviously the big factor. But also is convenience: why buy the same thing every week, when I can buy a big bucket once a month? I have space to store it, why not use it? It's less trips to the store. (After all, we all are obese and driving 6-ton SUVs, so we should drive less, right?)
So, if I feel like paying twice as much for everything I could buy smaller sizes. For things that are nonperishable, that's just stupid. That's why you don't see enormous packs of lettuce.
An average meal in an American restaurant was about twice what I would normally eat, for example.
That's true, but that's only because Americans are usually obsessed with "good value" and a huge portion can make that seem the case. I just order less when we go out. Sometimes my wife and I will split a dinner if we know the portions are ridiculous.
But you can't blame just Americans. Compare portion sizes in Germany versus Italy and you'll see that what I mean. Germans have big one-course dinners, Italians have lots of small courses. If you order a multi-course dinner in Germany, you'll never finish.