See, the issue here is that the 'source' in 'open source' refers to source code - jigs, templates etc are not source code. However, this is a regular enough linguistic phenomenon - see "Irangate" "workaholic" etc. There's no Irangate hotel, nor is there a lot of workahol going around, but we get it.
That's a good point...if you have a regular start-up moment daily, 30 seconds isn't hard to fill with coffee, cleaning crap off your desk, masturbation, etc
Hibernation, as almost everyone's pointed out, works fine, unless you *need* to reboot for an install, crash, etc. In taht case, geez, 30 seconds? Cry me a river, how often do you actually need to restart?
I'm currently doing an IT internship for the Gambino family. The pay is good, I get medical & dental, and if anyone mods me down, they'll find out about some of the other perks of working in the industry.
That looks like the result of a virulent strain of dyslexia. CVS, VCS? PGP, GPG? God damn, we're running out of acronyms that don't make my brain hurt.
I used to be a bartender, and one of the best things about the job is that the customers have to do the legwork. A bar where you can order while staying at your seat is a...um...restaurant? Table-service bar? This neat use of RFID is a lot like the bells Larry David insisted on in his restaurant in Curb Your Enthusiasm. What an amazing future we live in.
...who still send every promo movie out in VHS, to make ripping/uploading less attractive to the holder. VHS is the format you get when you ring an ad agency, and ask for a copy of a commercial. It's the format of choice for a lot of people who need to be able to quickly, cheaply copy some footage. Sweeping, bold predictions about consumer electronics from people *with* a clue are worthless, so why is anyone listening to Variety?
I've worked in a few different areas, mostly accounting and IT, and this is by no means limited to one industry. At one point early in my career, I was a Credit Manager/Technical Support Officer/Photocopier repairman/Purchasing Officer - and this was in a company with 300 people on the payroll...obviously I was paid like a photocopier guy. I've had titles inflated and deflated, and at the end of the day, you gotta know what you do, and what it's worth, and forget about titles, as so many are meaningless. How many managers "manage"?
If you've been too busy thinking about a horse race to notice the nightly coverage of the vote every day for the past week or more, and the debate leading up to the vote, then you deserve to miss out on being part of the scrutiny.
Personally, I'm happy as hell that the law has been passed; ignorance has lost out for once.
I fail to see how this is a black mark against Wikipedia. The theory is genuine, just not really worth mentioning. If you read the deletion discussion, you'll see that Wikipedia is working just fine. A whole bunch of people had an intelligent, generally respectful discussion about the merits of the piece, then decided to remove it after due consideration. 'Vandalism'? I think not.
You mean rap, hiphop, IDM, electronica in general, basically any form of music that lends itself to sampling. Really, aside from the very money-laden end of music, artists are pretty happy sharing ideas, just like scientists not caught up in the highly commercial end of their field are happy to share information, or programmers not caught up in the very commercial world of proprietary software. At the end of the day, creative people who aren't making a crapload of money are a very different bvreed to those who are.
Real musicians (ie not Britney etc) love having their music remixed & worked on by other musicians. If you listen to hiphop, you'll know that everyone lets everyone else play with their beats, lyrics, etc. Honestly, BFD.
Hype, shmype - I saw this on last night's news, and watching the plasma vs laser demo on a standard def tv, I could see a noticeable improvement in colour and clarity. They've got a definitely promising product, and the manufacturers getting behind them aren't the idiots who buy shares of free, clean unlimited plasma/fusion/dark matter energy providers, for instance.
My XP box crapped out the other day, so after the reformatting, I decided to do something diffrerent, namely dual-boot ubuntu & Vista RC1.
Yes, I now have to click "ok" 19 times to overwrite a file in C:\Program Files\, I had to disable three services just to activate my copy of Acrobat Professional, a bunch of apps can't write to same, and I'm generally being treated like a baby.
Go over to the other side, and wow, it's fast, and the desktop looks familiar, it's easy to see how to run an app, write a letter, get online...if only I wasn't left utterly fucked any time I wanted to install something that couldn't be found in apt (which I wouldn't have known existed if I wasn't lucky enough to have some linux guru friends)or wanted some help without the friggin' attitude.
Vista does create an opportunity for Linux to get onto the desktop, but the developers have to get it into their heads that Joe Sixpack is going to throw his monitor at your face if you start explaining that nothing works because he hasn't sorted out the correct dependancies. It's a great OS, but really, it isn't ready for the average user, and Vista is pretty, and easy, and stupid. It will do fine.
BFD. The acronyms used as examples in the summary are idiotic. I live on the interweb, I work in a digital post-production facility, my home is filled with the latest early-apdopting fool equipment, but I'll be fucked if I EVER hear anyone use "VOD" or "PVR". These are top-down commercially inspired acronyms, not exactly nerdspeak. I guarantee you both were coined by marketing executives.
C'mon, your work doesn't have a scanner/photocopier/printer with a feeder? I take my paperwork into the office once a quarter or so, feed the lot through the scanner in the print room, and email the output to myself at home. If you're one of the rare cases who'd feel bad about this, you could always offset the expense by not using their water cooler or coffee for a week:)
Wow, I'm impressed. I run a fairly cable intensive home network, and I get grief from friends & partner for my neat cabling obsession. But once you've tripped over the wires running from your video card to your TV going for a piss at 4am, and chip a tooth when your mouth hits the arm of a chair on the way down, you get neat.
Having seen these pics, I think I'll go and re-do all my cabling...I feel inspired by these mush bigger, yet even neater seups.
Shiver me timbers, you should be keel-hauled. I had that same link copied to clipboard, it's the perfect anthem! But as it's been posted already, here's my contribution, ye scurvy dogs
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See, the issue here is that the 'source' in 'open source' refers to source code - jigs, templates etc are not source code. However, this is a regular enough linguistic phenomenon - see "Irangate" "workaholic" etc. There's no Irangate hotel, nor is there a lot of workahol going around, but we get it.
That's a good point...if you have a regular start-up moment daily, 30 seconds isn't hard to fill with coffee, cleaning crap off your desk, masturbation, etc
Hibernation, as almost everyone's pointed out, works fine, unless you *need* to reboot for an install, crash, etc. In taht case, geez, 30 seconds? Cry me a river, how often do you actually need to restart?
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
I'm currently doing an IT internship for the Gambino family. The pay is good, I get medical & dental, and if anyone mods me down, they'll find out about some of the other perks of working in the industry.
Are they also internationally panglobal? To save on videoconferencing call charges, try removing the redundancy from your style.
I once built a super-sweet ride, but I never got to really enjoy it, as it's prohibitively difficult to generate 1.8 jiggawatts of power.
Australia. There are bars with table service, but I've always been too smart arsed, lecherous and possibly unhygienic to get work at one.
I used to be a bartender, and one of the best things about the job is that the customers have to do the legwork. A bar where you can order while staying at your seat is a...um...restaurant? Table-service bar? This neat use of RFID is a lot like the bells Larry David insisted on in his restaurant in Curb Your Enthusiasm. What an amazing future we live in.
I'd be unhappy if I'd paid money for this. I'll admit that it stopped me from falling asleep for six minutes, but that's as far as I'll go.
...who still send every promo movie out in VHS, to make ripping/uploading less attractive to the holder. VHS is the format you get when you ring an ad agency, and ask for a copy of a commercial. It's the format of choice for a lot of people who need to be able to quickly, cheaply copy some footage. Sweeping, bold predictions about consumer electronics from people *with* a clue are worthless, so why is anyone listening to Variety?
Well done, guys.
I've worked in a few different areas, mostly accounting and IT, and this is by no means limited to one industry. At one point early in my career, I was a Credit Manager/Technical Support Officer/Photocopier repairman/Purchasing Officer - and this was in a company with 300 people on the payroll...obviously I was paid like a photocopier guy. I've had titles inflated and deflated, and at the end of the day, you gotta know what you do, and what it's worth, and forget about titles, as so many are meaningless. How many managers "manage"?
Personally, I'm happy as hell that the law has been passed; ignorance has lost out for once.
I fail to see how this is a black mark against Wikipedia. The theory is genuine, just not really worth mentioning. If you read the deletion discussion, you'll see that Wikipedia is working just fine. A whole bunch of people had an intelligent, generally respectful discussion about the merits of the piece, then decided to remove it after due consideration. 'Vandalism'? I think not.
You mean rap, hiphop, IDM, electronica in general, basically any form of music that lends itself to sampling. Really, aside from the very money-laden end of music, artists are pretty happy sharing ideas, just like scientists not caught up in the highly commercial end of their field are happy to share information, or programmers not caught up in the very commercial world of proprietary software. At the end of the day, creative people who aren't making a crapload of money are a very different bvreed to those who are.
Real musicians (ie not Britney etc) love having their music remixed & worked on by other musicians. If you listen to hiphop, you'll know that everyone lets everyone else play with their beats, lyrics, etc. Honestly, BFD.
Hype, shmype - I saw this on last night's news, and watching the plasma vs laser demo on a standard def tv, I could see a noticeable improvement in colour and clarity. They've got a definitely promising product, and the manufacturers getting behind them aren't the idiots who buy shares of free, clean unlimited plasma/fusion/dark matter energy providers, for instance.
Then Yahoo! Games and pogo.com are the only things stopping her from harrassing you for yet another crack for yet another Mah-Jong game.
Yes, I now have to click "ok" 19 times to overwrite a file in C:\Program Files\, I had to disable three services just to activate my copy of Acrobat Professional, a bunch of apps can't write to same, and I'm generally being treated like a baby.
Go over to the other side, and wow, it's fast, and the desktop looks familiar, it's easy to see how to run an app, write a letter, get online...if only I wasn't left utterly fucked any time I wanted to install something that couldn't be found in apt (which I wouldn't have known existed if I wasn't lucky enough to have some linux guru friends)or wanted some help without the friggin' attitude.
Vista does create an opportunity for Linux to get onto the desktop, but the developers have to get it into their heads that Joe Sixpack is going to throw his monitor at your face if you start explaining that nothing works because he hasn't sorted out the correct dependancies. It's a great OS, but really, it isn't ready for the average user, and Vista is pretty, and easy, and stupid. It will do fine.
BFD. The acronyms used as examples in the summary are idiotic. I live on the interweb, I work in a digital post-production facility, my home is filled with the latest early-apdopting fool equipment, but I'll be fucked if I EVER hear anyone use "VOD" or "PVR". These are top-down commercially inspired acronyms, not exactly nerdspeak. I guarantee you both were coined by marketing executives.
C'mon, your work doesn't have a scanner/photocopier/printer with a feeder? I take my paperwork into the office once a quarter or so, feed the lot through the scanner in the print room, and email the output to myself at home. If you're one of the rare cases who'd feel bad about this, you could always offset the expense by not using their water cooler or coffee for a week :)
Having seen these pics, I think I'll go and re-do all my cabling...I feel inspired by these mush bigger, yet even neater seups.
You are a pirate