Also alt-tabbing is fantastically swift on Windows, allowing me to switch between documents and not just applications.
Apple's is swifter. If I have 3 Excel sheets open I switch between them with Command-backtick. To switch between apps I have Command-tab. On Windows they are munged together with means alt-tab, tab, tab, tab, tab when I want to switch between Excel and another application just because I have 5 worksheets open.
But I do agree that Windows is generally more keyboard friendly. Of course, it depends on the task.
Any fan of hockey will tell you that there's no way teams like Anaheim, LA, San Jose, Nashville, Florida, and several others that I'm probably missing deserve to be in the league.
San Jose's attendance this year was 99.6% capacity. (Source)
The typically dead San Jose downtown hops on Sharks nights. Most games are broadcast on HD (at least based on my sampling, I'm a casual fan of hockey and most other "major" sports). Every game is broadcast on a powerful FM classic rock station by a respected and knowledgeable announcer, Dan Rusinowski.
No, most of the San Jose and presumably other California fan base are not as grounded in hockey as in Canada orthe Northeast. So what?
While many of the players typically seem to be pretty cool guys, hardcore fans who grew up with hockey have this bigoted attitude that others shouldn't watch or enjoy the game.
The whole fighting thing is a red herring. I don't think it really plays into whether someone enjoys the sport on an ongoing basis. On the other hand, I do like that the red line was removed from the 2 line pass. The tempo is much smoother as I see it.
Is there a service that will let you customize many e-mail addresses with one domain?
Yahoo has something called AddressGuard if you use their premium service (about $20/year). It provides a prefix from your base account and then you create any number of suffixes to have a number of virtual email addresses.
If you use GMail, send yourself an invitation and create a unique email. In that email's configuration, forward it to your base GMail account. Tag each email address and you can tell in your base GMail account when emails are coming from your other emails.
As the comments will show, there are many ways to tackle the problem; these are two of mine.
I happen to like email, but I appreciate Knuth's formulation:
Yes, I'd like to be able to manage my email this way too: I have a wonderful secretary who looks at the incoming mail and separates out anything that she knows I've been looking forward to seeing urgently. Everything else goes into a buffer storage area, which I empty periodically.
I'd appreciate your post a lot more if you didn't say "lot's" so often. What is the contraction you're trying to form? Or is this a possessive term? Is Lot an authority on racing?
This is not so bad If you keep it in a safe place you would immediatly notice missing... I keep mine (while I'm learning it anyways) in a special place in my wallet, and my wallet is nearly always on my person (or nearby)
The problem is postit-syndrome.
Me too. I put a mini Post-it on the back of my driver's license on the 90-day interval. It takes about 3 days to move the "finger burn in" from my old password to the new one. When the Windows domain gives me my 14 day warning, I always try to do it on a Monday or Tuesday.
I suppose you either (1) call the program and ask, and/or (2) talk to a neighbor with a car about combining your waste.
Why do you assume a truck or SUV is required to haul a bag full of batteries, fluorescent lights, and some old cans of paint? My toxic trash fits just fine in the back of a Civic.
Here in Santa Clara County (San Jose, California), hazardous waste is supposed to be taken to a special drop by appointment. Hazardous waste includes: all types of fluorescent lights, paint, fertilizer, batteries (all types), and many other things. The aforementioned are what I typically carry off every few months.
You have to make a phone call, get an appointment, haul your stuff in boxes or bags to the site. Sounds like a big, inefficient government hassle, doesn't it? In practice, it works very well, especially for a densely populate area. I get the feeling that it's really because not enough folks are making the real effort.
When you do it though, it's fast and everyone is courteous, almost over the top courteous.
I have read and listened to comments about Imus since this happened and based on what I read: he's a liberal; he's a conservative; he's old; he's white; and so on. Much of the analysis includes a lot of "I never listened to his show."
I have listened to Imus on a semi-regular basis since 1995 when I found his show on the now defunct KPIX 95.7 in the SF Bay Area. I was initially drawn by his parodies of Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton, and Richard Nixon. The sports break segments with Mike Breen were utterly hilarious. Often the humor was Breen singing songs wishing the death of Imus in various forms.
The more I listened I found Imus' real skill was as an interviewer. His style subtly brings out personality in people whose public face is very buttoned up. He brings out edginess and humor in public political and entertainment figures. The show could get a little harsh and maybe insensitive, but that was not the theme.
Another thing is Imus really thinks for himself. It is impossible to pin him to a left/right ideology. He jokes that he's the only registered Republican in Westport, Connecticut. Some of his favorite people are James Carville, Harold Ford, and Frank Rich.
Other Regular guests included:
- John McCain
- Tom Aspell (hard ass reporter who hangs out in the middle of wars)
- a bunch of Newsweek writers
- Mike Lupica (sports writer and novelist)
- Doris Kearns Goodwin (presidential historian)
- Boomer Esiason (sports)
- Mary Matalin
- Pat Buchanan
- Phil Sims (sports)
- Christopher Dodd
- Jim Cramer (interesting guy when interviewed by Imus)
- David Gregory (NBC Washington correspondent - hilarious rapport with Imus)
- Tom Brokaw
- Michael Beschloss (presidential historian)
- Kinky Friedman
- and dozens more. This is off the top of my head.
He also has authors and musicians on the show. That's when I usually tune out as it's typically country music, and I find book talk boring unless it's newsworthy.
Over the years the show had lost much of its edginess, especially as the MSNBC simulcast became more well-known. For that reason, I became a less loyal listener, but I still listened occasionally for the nuggets of humor and good interviews. I hate the term "shock jock" (almost as much as I hate "mashup"). He is not shocking. He gets a little off color and insulting. Often, it's self effacing; sometimes it's directed at others. Hillary Clinton and Dick Cheney are big targets for insults. It's not shocking though.
Based on my 12 years of listening but not knowing much about him outside the radio show, I understand Imus as the following: reclusive, funny, grumpy, smart, harsh, philanthropic, liberal, conservative.
His comment wasn't nice. He apologized (a little too much) and made a point to meet the Rutgers team in person. My takeaway from this whole episode is summed up in four words - blown out of proportion - with the operative word being "proportion." It was a good radio show, and I'm sorry to see it go.
For example, let's say I need to tell you about a new reorganization that's going to take place. I could stand there and talk about who reports to whom, for twenty minutes, and everyone could sit there trying to figure out how the fuck it all adds up (and probably, trying to draw charts on cocktail napkins or in their notes), and where they are in the whole mess, or I could just put up a flowchart.
I wish my company would serve cocktails whenever there was a reorganization.
And then, when consumers complain, Cable companies will then have to switch out all that MPEG2 hardware for MPEG4, just like the Satellite companies did, and its just going to be bloody hell on you folks.
Yes, pure hell. I'll just kill myself now. I have Comcast HD with the HD DVR. The DVR is flaky at times, but the HD channels rarely pixelate. For $10 extra per month for both the DVR and HD, I'll live with it. If this calamatous world view you predict pans out, well, I think my life will get along just fine nonetheless.
I work for a company founded by Bill Sharpe (NP in Economics shared with Markowitz). Obviously an empirical observation, but the guy is in his early 70's and is still actively involved with research with the company and just did a private book signing for the employees.
I think it goes with that theory of the brain's "use it or lose it" feature. I bet you live a little longer when you feel you have a reason to get up in the morning and do something. This guy does.
You are inarticulate and sloppy in the way you write. In the world of telecommuting, where most of your communications are typically of the typewritten kind - be it email or IM - that is very important.
The answer to this question isn't complicated. Software development is hard because it requires that the developers impose an artificial abstraction on the real world -- a real world that could be conceptualized in an infinite number of ways.
And then give management an "estimate" for how long it will take you to do your part of implementing this little abstraction... and make sure it's close the time that management thinks it should take.
Therein lies the rub. You can do this little dance in many software building scenarios using shortcuts and programming practices that make the coder (engineer, whatever) wince. It'll get fixed up later. As long as no one dies using your software, the bag of hacks and tricks to get things done on manager's time are endless.
Writing a complex specification makes it hard for other parties to create compatible applications. Just like everybody needs *the one true browser* to navigate arround the Internet, everyone needs tools for SOAP. A simple spec would make SOAP extremely powerful, but also sets developers free of certain (commercially available) tools they need now...
In result, this is what SOAP gives us now:
...
And then fold digital signatures into the SOAP message. Oy vey, what a mess. It took 4 weeks to reimplement that "standard" when IBM's implementation for JDKs 1.4 and below was not supported in JDK 1.5.
It turned into one big exercise of engineers throwing shit against the wall until something stuck.
After my Cingular contract expired a year ago, I decided to try T-Mobile TOGO prepaid. For my usage pattern, 0-3 calls a days all brief, it's the best deal. Coverage has been no worse or better than Cingular in South Bay area of the San Francisco Bay Area. In fact, it makes me wonder if they are sharing towers, just a guess.
What I like is the simplicity. Buy a phone for less than $100, pay $100 for 1000 minutes guaranteed for a year, and you're good to go. If for some reason, I don't like it, I can just quit. Period. Maybe $100 lost, probably less though I haven't found it necessary to do that.
I've become hooked on EditGrid for an online spreadsheet. I see them trying to compete with, and building a better product than, Google as much as MS. For many reasons, I had been looking for a good online spreadsheet and when I heard about Google, I was eager to give it a try. When the news was posted on Slashdot, someone made a reference to EditGrid.
I sampled both and have committed many useful spreadsheets to my EditGrid account. They are constantly updating features and have yet to screw it up in the process from what I've seen.
In many ways, I find the online features more useful than Excel:
Constant backups and rollback including labeling versions
Real-time multi person collaboration (yes, I really have used that feature)
Easy backup and download of entire spreadsheet portfolio in Excel format
Good API that they're constantly updating
On the other hand, you couldn't pry my copy of Office 2000 (in particular Excel) from my cold dead hands. It's a very powerful, fast, and well established tool, period.
There's a company, Exametric in San Diego that started doing this for the retail banking sector (for staffing, not virtual manager as I understand them). Funny, that this article reminded me of them. Visiting their website, I see they have a new vertical: Quick Service and Fast Casual Restaurants.
Drop me a line when that app is revived as open source. It was a unique spreadsheet app that I have yet to see replicated anywhere. If my memory serves me, it was actually developed for Next and quietly went away.
On the other hand, my recollection of Organizer was when it came bundled on my old Hitachi laptop, circa 1996. I found it to be mostly "cute" with its binder metaphor but otherwise nothing special.
People want alternatives, Public schools suck, Teachers do not do their jobs, administrators do as little as possible to get by, the social atmosphere inside the school is very similar to that of a state prison. Middle School is simply 3 years of cruel punishment to kids and the public schools refuse to do anything to fix it.
At least you're not generalizing. I doubt a sampling of schools across demographics and geographies would bear that out as the absolute truth. There are lousy schools, teachers, administrators. I have seen them, so have you. There are some good ones in each of those categories, and there are some excellent ones.
The teacher's union is a double-edged sword. They get so pent up in the rallying cry for an issue, be it salary, politics, that dissenters are frowned upon. On the other hand many within the unions work hard to genuinely get a voice for the teachers. That's the ying and yang of the union, any kind of union.
I know a vice principal in Fresno at the "good" high school. By that I mean the upper-income demographic where most kids graduate and go to college. Even there, she commonly works 10+ hour days dealing with problem kids. Most often, the problem is the parents. They don't give a crap about their kids, themselves, or anyone else. It's the school's job to raise the kids. I can imagine it's only worse at the other 9 high schools.
I believe in having choice to educate kids in the way that the parent sees fit. But that doesn't imply that public schools, all publics schools, are de facto crap.
Private schooled kids are better educated.
Charter schooled kids are better educated.
Home schooled kids are better educated.
finally I will bet that computer schooled kids are better educated.
when compared to public schools.
It is a written in stone fact. only the fools believe otherwise.
Now your just making statements as if they're religious dogma.
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Apple's is swifter. If I have 3 Excel sheets open I switch between them with Command-backtick. To switch between apps I have Command-tab. On Windows they are munged together with means alt-tab, tab, tab, tab, tab when I want to switch between Excel and another application just because I have 5 worksheets open.
But I do agree that Windows is generally more keyboard friendly. Of course, it depends on the task.
San Jose's attendance this year was 99.6% capacity. (Source)
The typically dead San Jose downtown hops on Sharks nights. Most games are broadcast on HD (at least based on my sampling, I'm a casual fan of hockey and most other "major" sports). Every game is broadcast on a powerful FM classic rock station by a respected and knowledgeable announcer, Dan Rusinowski.
No, most of the San Jose and presumably other California fan base are not as grounded in hockey as in Canada orthe Northeast. So what?
While many of the players typically seem to be pretty cool guys, hardcore fans who grew up with hockey have this bigoted attitude that others shouldn't watch or enjoy the game.
The whole fighting thing is a red herring. I don't think it really plays into whether someone enjoys the sport on an ongoing basis. On the other hand, I do like that the red line was removed from the 2 line pass. The tempo is much smoother as I see it.
Yahoo has something called AddressGuard if you use their premium service (about $20/year). It provides a prefix from your base account and then you create any number of suffixes to have a number of virtual email addresses.
If you use GMail, send yourself an invitation and create a unique email. In that email's configuration, forward it to your base GMail account. Tag each email address and you can tell in your base GMail account when emails are coming from your other emails.
As the comments will show, there are many ways to tackle the problem; these are two of mine.
Yes, I'd like to be able to manage my email this way too: I have a wonderful secretary who looks at the incoming mail and separates out anything that she knows I've been looking forward to seeing urgently. Everything else goes into a buffer storage area, which I empty periodically.
I'd appreciate your post a lot more if you didn't say "lot's" so often. What is the contraction you're trying to form? Or is this a possessive term? Is Lot an authority on racing?
Me too. I put a mini Post-it on the back of my driver's license on the 90-day interval. It takes about 3 days to move the "finger burn in" from my old password to the new one. When the Windows domain gives me my 14 day warning, I always try to do it on a Monday or Tuesday.
Why do you assume a truck or SUV is required to haul a bag full of batteries, fluorescent lights, and some old cans of paint? My toxic trash fits just fine in the back of a Civic.
You have to make a phone call, get an appointment, haul your stuff in boxes or bags to the site. Sounds like a big, inefficient government hassle, doesn't it? In practice, it works very well, especially for a densely populate area. I get the feeling that it's really because not enough folks are making the real effort.
When you do it though, it's fast and everyone is courteous, almost over the top courteous.
http://www.sjrecycles.org/residents/universal-wast e.asp
I have listened to Imus on a semi-regular basis since 1995 when I found his show on the now defunct KPIX 95.7 in the SF Bay Area. I was initially drawn by his parodies of Ted Kennedy, Bill Clinton, and Richard Nixon. The sports break segments with Mike Breen were utterly hilarious. Often the humor was Breen singing songs wishing the death of Imus in various forms.
The more I listened I found Imus' real skill was as an interviewer. His style subtly brings out personality in people whose public face is very buttoned up. He brings out edginess and humor in public political and entertainment figures. The show could get a little harsh and maybe insensitive, but that was not the theme.
Another thing is Imus really thinks for himself. It is impossible to pin him to a left/right ideology. He jokes that he's the only registered Republican in Westport, Connecticut. Some of his favorite people are James Carville, Harold Ford, and Frank Rich.
Other Regular guests included: - John McCain - Tom Aspell (hard ass reporter who hangs out in the middle of wars) - a bunch of Newsweek writers - Mike Lupica (sports writer and novelist) - Doris Kearns Goodwin (presidential historian) - Boomer Esiason (sports) - Mary Matalin - Pat Buchanan - Phil Sims (sports) - Christopher Dodd - Jim Cramer (interesting guy when interviewed by Imus) - David Gregory (NBC Washington correspondent - hilarious rapport with Imus) - Tom Brokaw - Michael Beschloss (presidential historian) - Kinky Friedman - and dozens more. This is off the top of my head.
He also has authors and musicians on the show. That's when I usually tune out as it's typically country music, and I find book talk boring unless it's newsworthy.
Over the years the show had lost much of its edginess, especially as the MSNBC simulcast became more well-known. For that reason, I became a less loyal listener, but I still listened occasionally for the nuggets of humor and good interviews. I hate the term "shock jock" (almost as much as I hate "mashup"). He is not shocking. He gets a little off color and insulting. Often, it's self effacing; sometimes it's directed at others. Hillary Clinton and Dick Cheney are big targets for insults. It's not shocking though.
Based on my 12 years of listening but not knowing much about him outside the radio show, I understand Imus as the following: reclusive, funny, grumpy, smart, harsh, philanthropic, liberal, conservative.
His comment wasn't nice. He apologized (a little too much) and made a point to meet the Rutgers team in person. My takeaway from this whole episode is summed up in four words - blown out of proportion - with the operative word being "proportion." It was a good radio show, and I'm sorry to see it go.
I wish my company would serve cocktails whenever there was a reorganization.
And they all want to buy pseudoephedrine.
And then, when consumers complain, Cable companies will then have to switch out all that MPEG2 hardware for MPEG4, just like the Satellite companies did, and its just going to be bloody hell on you folks.
Yes, pure hell. I'll just kill myself now. I have Comcast HD with the HD DVR. The DVR is flaky at times, but the HD channels rarely pixelate. For $10 extra per month for both the DVR and HD, I'll live with it. If this calamatous world view you predict pans out, well, I think my life will get along just fine nonetheless.
Bloody hell? Uh, not really.
I think it goes with that theory of the brain's "use it or lose it" feature. I bet you live a little longer when you feel you have a reason to get up in the morning and do something. This guy does.
You are inarticulate and sloppy in the way you write. In the world of telecommuting, where most of your communications are typically of the typewritten kind - be it email or IM - that is very important.
And then give management an "estimate" for how long it will take you to do your part of implementing this little abstraction ... and make sure it's close the time that management thinks it should take.
Therein lies the rub. You can do this little dance in many software building scenarios using shortcuts and programming practices that make the coder (engineer, whatever) wince. It'll get fixed up later. As long as no one dies using your software, the bag of hacks and tricks to get things done on manager's time are endless.
And then fold digital signatures into the SOAP message. Oy vey, what a mess. It took 4 weeks to reimplement that "standard" when IBM's implementation for JDKs 1.4 and below was not supported in JDK 1.5.
It turned into one big exercise of engineers throwing shit against the wall until something stuck.
What I like is the simplicity. Buy a phone for less than $100, pay $100 for 1000 minutes guaranteed for a year, and you're good to go. If for some reason, I don't like it, I can just quit. Period. Maybe $100 lost, probably less though I haven't found it necessary to do that.
I sampled both and have committed many useful spreadsheets to my EditGrid account. They are constantly updating features and have yet to screw it up in the process from what I've seen.
In many ways, I find the online features more useful than Excel:
On the other hand, you couldn't pry my copy of Office 2000 (in particular Excel) from my cold dead hands. It's a very powerful, fast, and well established tool, period.
http://sqlite.org/omitted.html
There's a company, Exametric in San Diego that started doing this for the retail banking sector (for staffing, not virtual manager as I understand them). Funny, that this article reminded me of them. Visiting their website, I see they have a new vertical: Quick Service and Fast Casual Restaurants.
On the other hand, my recollection of Organizer was when it came bundled on my old Hitachi laptop, circa 1996. I found it to be mostly "cute" with its binder metaphor but otherwise nothing special.
One more Lotus app I miss: Magellan.
The teacher's union is a double-edged sword. They get so pent up in the rallying cry for an issue, be it salary, politics, that dissenters are frowned upon. On the other hand many within the unions work hard to genuinely get a voice for the teachers. That's the ying and yang of the union, any kind of union.
I know a vice principal in Fresno at the "good" high school. By that I mean the upper-income demographic where most kids graduate and go to college. Even there, she commonly works 10+ hour days dealing with problem kids. Most often, the problem is the parents. They don't give a crap about their kids, themselves, or anyone else. It's the school's job to raise the kids. I can imagine it's only worse at the other 9 high schools.
I believe in having choice to educate kids in the way that the parent sees fit. But that doesn't imply that public schools, all publics schools, are de facto crap.
Now your just making statements as if they're religious dogma.Really? I like Nirvana, Douglas Adams, and rocket propelled grenades too.