I have an s3 frontier. it is waterproof. well, waterproof enough anyway. it's ip68. i wear it in the jacuzzi all the time. as long as you're not a diver, you'll be fine.
I guess he never heard of Wirth's Law. Compared to 20 years ago, our computers are operating at and infinite speed with ridiculous amounts of RAM. Yet the desktop, IDEs, and applications seem slower than they were 20 years ago, require Gigabytes(!!!) of RAM, and do not seem to do anything more than they did before. Go figure.
Aren't the Android VR guys aware there's already a feature on Android called DayDream? It's their way of doing screensavers. It's exposed through the DreamService: https://developer.android.com/...
That sounds like the second half of a Pinky and the Brain AYPWIP:
Brain: Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering? Pinky: I think so Brain, but who wants a computer that remembers the words to the Flintstones jingle and forgets to pay the rent?
No, the spair-the-air (spartheair.org) legislation did. Now when it is sufficiently cold outside to warrant using the fireplace to heat your house, the BAAQMD (baaqmd.gov) issues a spare-the-air alert and makes it illegal to heat your house though a means other than PG&E (pge.com). You must your gas or electricity to heat your house rather than a fireplace.
Zillow does more for estimations than Bank of America did for my last re-fi. BofA didn't send out any kind of appraiser, just pulled a number out of their ass. And that number conflicted with the recently sold comparables in my area. Estimates from Zillow or appraisers don't mean shit. Your house is worth whatever the bank wants it to be. Upgrades you've done and condition of the house won't be factored in and are completely irrelevant.
Every company I've worked at has provided it. Usually as a recurring thing too. Often at somepoint during new hire orientation, and then once every year afterwards. Your HR dept should be able to set this up for you (even if you're a small company and have HR outsourced to one of those HR outsourcing firms). Your company, as well as you personally, can be sued and end up losing a lot of money over this.
Here's a small gist of the training: Harassment is defined by the victim. It doesn't matter if you or your co-workers don't consider it harassment, if the victim does, then it is harassment. There is a ton of legal leeway given to victim. This is not a subject to take lightly. Simply looking at a person the wrong way could be considered harassment. Laughing at a joke, even if it is not at his/her expense, and even if that person laughs as well, could be considered harassment.
For a trip over 500 miles, I get a plane ticket:-P. Did that just this past (long) weekend (had took thurs & fri off). I really don't enjoy driving 8-9 hours to a destination and then that same time back. Just eats into your vacation time:-).
I'm likely to buy an electric. My commute + daily chores are well within the range of electric vehicles. When I buy the electric, the hybrid will still be around, but only for the occasional longer trip. Hopefully, by the time the hybrid dies, electric vehicles with 200-300 mi range will cost much less.
We have had enough of voodoo science and liberal agenda dweebs! The answer is obvious why the ice is melting. Bird poop and pee! That's right migrating sea birds land on the ice and after a meal of fish poop and pee to their hearts content and that my friends warms the ice and that is why its melting.
there is no way a @#$ robot can judge what to do about oncoming accidents, like a pedestrian, a deer, a squirrel, a semi jackknifing, an ambulance passing, a crash ahead of you, a gigantic pothole, a box full of dishes that fell off a truck, a big tree branch, a patch of black ice, a tire blowing out, a semi weaving in a strong wind, etc etc etc.
That's ok, Bay Area drivers can't handle those situations either;-)
Heck, 101 and 880 turn into a parking lot of accidents anytime there is some light drizzle. I actually doubt a self-driving car can be worse than the drivers around here.
There's another factor to consider: green-handcuffs.
This is the term used when an H1B worker has applied for a green-card, would like to change jobs, but can't, because it would require starting the application process over from the beginning. Obtaining a green card while on an H1B can take 6 years (or as short as a year). I used to work for a company in silicon valley that would hire H1B workers, pay them significantly lower wages (and get away with 'paying market rate' by changing the job description to one where the market was significantly lower than the position he was actually working in), encourage the worker to apply for a green card, then do what it could to stall the process so they could keep the cheap worker longer.
The H1B workers called it green-handcuffs and would leave the minute they got their green card.
I currently know a guy who went to work for a company on a particular project. the project got canned, so he got moved to another position in the company. a position he hates. he'd leave, but he's close to getting his green card approved and doesn't want to start the process all over again.
I've seen it. I wish I had mod points for him. The problem is that everyone treats whitespace alignment differently. On a large enough team over enough time, people who use tabs will start to mix tabs and spaces for alignment. Once that starts happening you'll get code / comments / ascii art diagrams all misaligned when viewed in someone else's editor who doesn't have the same tabwidth. The only reliable way to solve this for everyone is to force tabs-as-spaces (:set expandtab). That way the spacing is consistant on everyone's editor.
You can do video chat on the PS3. And you can chat with multiple people at the same time. I've personally done it with three people. I don't know what the limit is. All you need is a PS3, a compatible webcam (could be a Playstation Eye, PS2 EyeToy, and there's various other webcams that supposedly work), and a network connection and you're done. Oh, sorry, replied too fast...missed the requirement about needing to be viewable on a PC. Well if that's not a strict requirement, then you can think about the PS3 option.
As far as casual 2D desktop usage is concerned, ATI is probably fine. The problems, for me, come when needing hardware OpenGL drivers. ATI has been working on it and seems to possibly be improving, but in years past, ATI's support for OpenGL has been a crap shoot at best. First, was whether OpenGL even worked on whatever ATI card you put in. Next, was what bugs to be expecting. Basic things like gl_FragCoord (in fragment shaders) were completely broken...for a long time. And there were several other bugs a developer had to deal with. As an OpenGL developer, you pretty much had the following expectations:
Nvidia driver: OpenGL worked as spec'd. Very few if any bugs. ATI driver: OpenGL was a crap shoot. Sometimes worked well enough. Sometimes had a ton of bugs that needed working around. Intel driver: Revert to _software_ OpenGL rendering because Intel's drivers were so completely useless.
If a new extension comes out, or a new version of OpenGL comes out:
Nvidia: expect a new driver within weeks to support it. ATI: expect support somewhere 6 months to a year later. Intel: OpenGL? what's that?
ATI seems to be working to improve their situation, but they're still not quite to the level of OpenGL support that NVidia has provided.
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I have an s3 frontier. it is waterproof. well, waterproof enough anyway. it's ip68. i wear it in the jacuzzi all the time. as long as you're not a diver, you'll be fine.
And now you know his real plan as to how he plans to become the first real-life James Bond villain.
I guess he never heard of Wirth's Law. Compared to 20 years ago, our computers are operating at and infinite speed with ridiculous amounts of RAM. Yet the desktop, IDEs, and applications seem slower than they were 20 years ago, require Gigabytes(!!!) of RAM, and do not seem to do anything more than they did before. Go figure.
Forgive my legal ignorance (IANAL :), what does 'false designation' mean?
"many of whom are still driven to Yahoo products via its highly trafficked homepage." Crap, did I wake up in an alternate timeline again?
Aren't the Android VR guys aware there's already a feature on Android called DayDream? It's their way of doing screensavers. It's exposed through the DreamService: https://developer.android.com/...
Don't they have a window? I think they call it a periscope. They use it before each time they surface.
That sounds like the second half of a Pinky and the Brain AYPWIP:
Brain: Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
Pinky: I think so Brain, but who wants a computer that remembers the words to the Flintstones jingle and forgets to pay the rent?
No, the spair-the-air (spartheair.org) legislation did. Now when it is sufficiently cold outside to warrant using the fireplace to heat your house, the BAAQMD (baaqmd.gov) issues a spare-the-air alert and makes it illegal to heat your house though a means other than PG&E (pge.com). You must your gas or electricity to heat your house rather than a fireplace.
Zillow does more for estimations than Bank of America did for my last re-fi. BofA didn't send out any kind of appraiser, just pulled a number out of their ass. And that number conflicted with the recently sold comparables in my area. Estimates from Zillow or appraisers don't mean shit. Your house is worth whatever the bank wants it to be. Upgrades you've done and condition of the house won't be factored in and are completely irrelevant.
and give me my flying car! :)
Every company I've worked at has provided it. Usually as a recurring thing too. Often at somepoint during new hire orientation, and then once every year afterwards. Your HR dept should be able to set this up for you (even if you're a small company and have HR outsourced to one of those HR outsourcing firms). Your company, as well as you personally, can be sued and end up losing a lot of money over this.
Here's a small gist of the training: Harassment is defined by the victim. It doesn't matter if you or your co-workers don't consider it harassment, if the victim does, then it is harassment. There is a ton of legal leeway given to victim. This is not a subject to take lightly. Simply looking at a person the wrong way could be considered harassment. Laughing at a joke, even if it is not at his/her expense, and even if that person laughs as well, could be considered harassment.
Get your team/company the training.
In fact, forget the Blow...
-Bender
For a trip over 500 miles, I get a plane ticket :-P. Did that just this past (long) weekend (had took thurs & fri off). I really don't enjoy driving 8-9 hours to a destination and then that same time back. Just eats into your vacation time :-).
I'm likely to buy an electric. My commute + daily chores are well within the range of electric vehicles. When I buy the electric, the hybrid will still be around, but only for the occasional longer trip. Hopefully, by the time the hybrid dies, electric vehicles with 200-300 mi range will cost much less.
We have had enough of voodoo science and liberal agenda dweebs! The answer is obvious why the ice is melting. Bird poop and pee! That's right migrating sea birds land on the ice and after a meal of fish poop and pee to their hearts content and that my friends warms the ice and that is why its melting.
My name is Rick Parry and I endorse this message.
FTFY
and the damn Rectangle Manager :)
What's the difference between Marketing and Sales? Marketing knows that they're lying.
there is no way a @#$ robot can judge what to do about oncoming accidents, like a pedestrian, a deer, a squirrel, a semi jackknifing, an ambulance passing, a crash ahead of you, a gigantic pothole, a box full of dishes that fell off a truck, a big tree branch, a patch of black ice, a tire blowing out, a semi weaving in a strong wind, etc etc etc.
That's ok, Bay Area drivers can't handle those situations either ;-)
Heck, 101 and 880 turn into a parking lot of accidents anytime there is some light drizzle. I actually doubt a self-driving car can be worse than the drivers around here.
Don't you remember? Blipverts kill people: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blipvert
There's another factor to consider: green-handcuffs.
This is the term used when an H1B worker has applied for a green-card, would like to change jobs, but can't, because it would require starting the application process over from the beginning. Obtaining a green card while on an H1B can take 6 years (or as short as a year). I used to work for a company in silicon valley that would hire H1B workers, pay them significantly lower wages (and get away with 'paying market rate' by changing the job description to one where the market was significantly lower than the position he was actually working in), encourage the worker to apply for a green card, then do what it could to stall the process so they could keep the cheap worker longer.
The H1B workers called it green-handcuffs and would leave the minute they got their green card.
I currently know a guy who went to work for a company on a particular project. the project got canned, so he got moved to another position in the company. a position he hates. he'd leave, but he's close to getting his green card approved and doesn't want to start the process all over again.
I've seen it. I wish I had mod points for him. The problem is that everyone treats whitespace alignment differently. On a large enough team over enough time, people who use tabs will start to mix tabs and spaces for alignment. Once that starts happening you'll get code / comments / ascii art diagrams all misaligned when viewed in someone else's editor who doesn't have the same tabwidth. The only reliable way to solve this for everyone is to force tabs-as-spaces (:set expandtab). That way the spacing is consistant on everyone's editor.
You can do video chat on the PS3. And you can chat with multiple people at the same time. I've personally done it with three people. I don't know what the limit is. All you need is a PS3, a compatible webcam (could be a Playstation Eye, PS2 EyeToy, and there's various other webcams that supposedly work), and a network connection and you're done. Oh, sorry, replied too fast...missed the requirement about needing to be viewable on a PC. Well if that's not a strict requirement, then you can think about the PS3 option.
They'd get 42 dollars?
As far as casual 2D desktop usage is concerned, ATI is probably fine. The problems, for me, come when needing hardware OpenGL drivers. ATI has been working on it and seems to possibly be improving, but in years past, ATI's support for OpenGL has been a crap shoot at best. First, was whether OpenGL even worked on whatever ATI card you put in. Next, was what bugs to be expecting. Basic things like gl_FragCoord (in fragment shaders) were completely broken...for a long time. And there were several other bugs a developer had to deal with. As an OpenGL developer, you pretty much had the following expectations:
Nvidia driver: OpenGL worked as spec'd. Very few if any bugs.
ATI driver: OpenGL was a crap shoot. Sometimes worked well enough. Sometimes had a ton of bugs that needed working around.
Intel driver: Revert to _software_ OpenGL rendering because Intel's drivers were so completely useless.
If a new extension comes out, or a new version of OpenGL comes out:
Nvidia: expect a new driver within weeks to support it.
ATI: expect support somewhere 6 months to a year later.
Intel: OpenGL? what's that?
ATI seems to be working to improve their situation, but they're still not quite to the level of OpenGL support that NVidia has provided.