And I am the opposite. I can't do tasks that require a lot of focus efficiently when other people are around, or there are distractions. I tend to hate being in a programming environment where there are other people talking, or people walking around everywhere. It breaks my concentration over and over again.
In fact, I can't even listen to music or anything while doing focused work. It's too much of a distraction. I don't know how people listen to music or watch TV while doing something focused.
One guy I know can't fall asleep unless there's a TV on. That I find utterly insane. I didn't grow up with too much TV, but I always find the hiss of the CRT and obnoxious noise to be a huge distraction to anything.
I've been using Firefox since it was called Firebird. I've used the 2.x branch extensively, and had no problems adapting to the "awesome" bar when I installed FF3 RC2.
I don't know why people hate it so much. It shows history, titles and favicons next to the sites, as opposed to just a list. And it'll even sort them for you.
In my opinion it's better, but to each his own I guess.
People get really stupid. Several times there were obnoxious assholes who suddenly hollered at me as they flew 6in by me. If I was startled in the wrong way that could've led to an accident.
Once, a guy in a jeep decided to play chicken with me. I wasn't aware till the last minute.
This is just a general lack of respect for bicyclists. Respect goes both ways, you know. It's a much bigger problem over here in the US where everyone guzzles fossil fuels, instead of riding bikes more often.
Yep. I will admit sometimes it was slow, but that was more due to network lag than anything else. Basically, Access was just a front end retrieval client for records in the oracle database. That was key though in my ability to data mine the records and prepare reports with VBA.
That's what I thought. "Realtime" my ass. You're just getting the 20-minute delayed quotes updated every second. Of course, actual realtime quotes are available for a fee.
GOOG may be on to something here...dunno how they got around it legally...I believe YHOO had to back down because of some NASD rule, but I may be mistaken.
Word. I've used it and with combined with VBA with access to pull datasets from a database, it can be quite powerful, and do exactly what you need it to. In my case, it was handling scheduling for a 40,000+ student university. The datasets pulled easily ran into the millions of records.
You assume that everyone with no money is in that situation because they purchased frivolities. This is a tired argument and it makes the rest of your argument weak. Bottom line, if someone gets cancer and insurance doesn't want to cover it, they're screwed. That is not the case in the fully socialized medical systems.
The argument about food falls flat on its face too. Food doesn't potentially cost hundreds of thousands of dollars due to short-term catastrophic occurrences.
Two strawmen, basically.
I really wonder how your guys opinions would change if a misfortune occurred that incapacitated you so you couldn't make money, you got socked with a medical bill you couldn't pay.
Actually, that Apple's products are so superficial, limited, and restricted is what draws so many to them, especially the ipods. People don't have to think, they just go through a simple NeXT interface to get to what they want.
"Certified Engineer" holds more weight, I.E. one who holds a BS in an engineering field and passed the cert. Of course, only "in the know" people know this, and yes, I don't like how the term's been diluted/"deluded"
I agree, ATI has taken a dump on themselves repeatedly with video drivers in the past, and it was even one of the reasons Quadros with inferior architectures were beating FireGLs. They've cleaned up their act quite a bit though I don't like the whole catalyst control panel thing. Nah well. At least they're open
What I am waiting to see is Virgin to decide to talk to Bigelow. In fact, I would be surprised if he has not talked to both Spacex AND bigelow. The reason is that he will want to put up a hotel and get the traffic going. Once he has traffic to a hotel, then it will make pursuing the SSIII quite a bit easier.
Privative the ISS? Then it won't be such a boondoggle, eh?
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And I am the opposite. I can't do tasks that require a lot of focus efficiently when other people are around, or there are distractions. I tend to hate being in a programming environment where there are other people talking, or people walking around everywhere. It breaks my concentration over and over again.
In fact, I can't even listen to music or anything while doing focused work. It's too much of a distraction. I don't know how people listen to music or watch TV while doing something focused.
One guy I know can't fall asleep unless there's a TV on. That I find utterly insane. I didn't grow up with too much TV, but I always find the hiss of the CRT and obnoxious noise to be a huge distraction to anything.
Democrats are no better in this regard.
I've been using Firefox since it was called Firebird. I've used the 2.x branch extensively, and had no problems adapting to the "awesome" bar when I installed FF3 RC2.
I don't know why people hate it so much. It shows history, titles and favicons next to the sites, as opposed to just a list. And it'll even sort them for you.
In my opinion it's better, but to each his own I guess.
A 6600 should at least be coupled with a 1.5GHz CPU.
Bravo! People need to be more centrist.
People get really stupid. Several times there were obnoxious assholes who suddenly hollered at me as they flew 6in by me. If I was startled in the wrong way that could've led to an accident.
Once, a guy in a jeep decided to play chicken with me. I wasn't aware till the last minute.
This is just a general lack of respect for bicyclists. Respect goes both ways, you know. It's a much bigger problem over here in the US where everyone guzzles fossil fuels, instead of riding bikes more often.
Or how about "How many witnesses can you sink to the bottom of swimming pools after filling concrete around their feet?"
You'd be right. http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?ReportID=167
Yep. I will admit sometimes it was slow, but that was more due to network lag than anything else. Basically, Access was just a front end retrieval client for records in the oracle database. That was key though in my ability to data mine the records and prepare reports with VBA.
That's what I thought. "Realtime" my ass. You're just getting the 20-minute delayed quotes updated every second. Of course, actual realtime quotes are available for a fee. GOOG may be on to something here...dunno how they got around it legally...I believe YHOO had to back down because of some NASD rule, but I may be mistaken.
Word. I've used it and with combined with VBA with access to pull datasets from a database, it can be quite powerful, and do exactly what you need it to. In my case, it was handling scheduling for a 40,000+ student university. The datasets pulled easily ran into the millions of records.
I dont want my cows to be burned to death by falling turbine blades you insensitive clod!
Estonians have always rejected Russian interference in their affairs.
Seems like you don't have much experience in that department or your needs are really generic.
Also, the problem with replacing all natural areas with urban jungle should be more than obvious.
of common sense?
You assume that everyone with no money is in that situation because they purchased frivolities. This is a tired argument and it makes the rest of your argument weak. Bottom line, if someone gets cancer and insurance doesn't want to cover it, they're screwed. That is not the case in the fully socialized medical systems.
The argument about food falls flat on its face too. Food doesn't potentially cost hundreds of thousands of dollars due to short-term catastrophic occurrences.
Two strawmen, basically.
I really wonder how your guys opinions would change if a misfortune occurred that incapacitated you so you couldn't make money, you got socked with a medical bill you couldn't pay.
Come on, that's a straw man. You can't say everything you do in everyday work you do because you passionately care about it.
Ah, I take that back then. "Certified Engineer" It's what my school calls it.
First, your labeling people simple minded based on a single post is proof enough of where you stand on that...
Anyway, an apple being as customizable as a linux or even unix system as you claim to have worked with, I don't buy it.
Does anyone here get the same feeling that the submission is flamebait? Why is outsourcing production and assembly a necessarily bad thing, again?
Actually, that Apple's products are so superficial, limited, and restricted is what draws so many to them, especially the ipods. People don't have to think, they just go through a simple NeXT interface to get to what they want.
"Certified Engineer" holds more weight, I.E. one who holds a BS in an engineering field and passed the cert. Of course, only "in the know" people know this, and yes, I don't like how the term's been diluted/"deluded"
I agree, ATI has taken a dump on themselves repeatedly with video drivers in the past, and it was even one of the reasons Quadros with inferior architectures were beating FireGLs. They've cleaned up their act quite a bit though I don't like the whole catalyst control panel thing. Nah well. At least they're open
Privative the ISS? Then it won't be such a boondoggle, eh?