Did you tell your parents? Maybe I'm just an overactive parent with a lot of computer knowledge, but if my kid told me about an incident like that, I'd be having some words with them about their computer system.
Ok, I'm now having/. discussions with people definitely young enough to be my kid; I'll put my old fogey badge on now...
Man, some of those profs make some nice coin -- esp. considering the cost of living for Iowa.
Seriously, why not just make salary figures public? In Iowa, all state employee salaries are public information, and most newspapers publish them at least once each year. It just keeps everybody honest.
Yes, but you're assuming businesses want to be honest. I think it's pretty obvious that they want to pay people as little as possible, and getting people not to reveal their salaries is one way to do this.
I must say that I passed the honesty test once, when I found an income statement from a co-worker. I gave it to him a few minutes later without looking at anything beyond the name.
I turned on strong password authentication when I was promoted.
Did you ever consider going biometric?
A bunch of U.are.U (or similar) fingerprint readers would probably be a fair bit safer than any system that forces difficult-to-remember passwords, and many users would like the instant-login possibility.
Yes, I know, RMS already wrote the code, but I am now the holder of the patent on EMACS, a full featured text editing program with a fully-functional LISP facility and a kitchen sink on the side.
You know, I think there are a lot of people who think you would be doing the world a favor by never licensing that patent...
Ya wanna lose weight, ya knock off with the food intake.
Yeah, you spend the next six months feeling like you're starving, then tell me how easy it is.
I exercise more, have more muscle, and eat a more healthy diet than a lot of people who are thinner than I am. Some of us have metabolic systems rigged towards putting on the pounds.
Me too. I'm typing this while looking at an eight-year-old Viewsonic 20G. Upstairs I have a Viewsonic PF790, which is a refurbished replacement for the original that completely blew out on me; and the refurb they sent has a red tint on the left side of the screen (so I don't think much of their support either.) Given the shipping cost, I didn't send that back too.:-(
Apparently they don't make 'em like they used to -- and monitors are something I would actually hang onto for a while.
the variety of vertical market apps for that platform just isn't there [...] what if you want to run AutoCAD.
Demanding that you run one particularly unenthralling piece of software (so clunky that they bought out Rev-It and are moving towards that as their solution for the future) is hardly evidence of the lack of variety. That's like saying the market isn't there on PCs 'cause you can't run iTunes.
There are lots of smaller apps that a large company needs that only run on a PC.
Run VectorWorks if you need CAD on Macs. Tain't like Mac people have never heard of the concept of CAD... You don't need AutoCad specifically unless you need flawless back-and-forth transfer with someone who won't switch from AutoCad.
The more people are invited to the party, the greater chance you have to find someone to have a relationship with.
So go to other parties. Have interests outside of work that help you meet people. Intra-office dating isn't always the best thing, anyway; breaking up can be very awkward. And contractors end up meeting more people by working for more companies.
Ye, that way when you leave the house with the PPC/Palm no one will have those neat functions and probably won't be able to find the old remotes.
I don't know about you, but I've got an old PDA. Certainly for the price of one of these high-end remotes you could buy a learning remote just for the purpose instead. The only issue I can think of is battery life.
Mine hasn't, I finally gave up and bought a laser printer for most printing. Occasionally I can wangle a decent print out of it when I need color, but I've done far too few pages for what it cost me for it to malfunction like it has. HP also won't detail the printer language (making Linux support a challenge), and the paper path is anything but straight.
Why do you think the US has what is generally regarded to be one of the worst health care systems in the first world, and the most expensive drugs?
'Cause we're highly self-critical, and we have the most money. What's a good test of how good a country's medical research facilities are? I'd say checking out where recent Nobel Prize winners have done their work. Do a google search, and you'll find more than half are Americans or based in America.
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Wouldn't the Linux/OSS advancement efforts be better served if maybe this team of people had worked for a week and released a complete "Duke Nukem 3D" for Linux?
Given the rest of your theme, the real question may be "why not hack the Quake engine to give it DN3D support"? Is there anything fundamental about the Duke code that is better than Quake, or is it the data that makes the Duke? If the latter, all you really need is some way to import Duke data into Quake. (Or perhaps Doom, so you have 2-D sprite support.)
Sometimes you want big, but sometimes you want small if you're going to do something different with it, you know, like put it somewhere that can't take something big. What I'd really like is a selectable package size.
The space comes from Slashcode, somehow related to prevention of screwing up the page formatting by including extra-long words. You're better off doing this, anyway.
any one watching Fox news has probably never heard of PBS let alone watched it.
...and they'd probably have trouble spelling it too.
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I'm not much in agreement with the author either. As a developer, with multiple versions to deal with, I have a whole bunch of folders with the same name. The insistence of the Mac OS of not showing the path means that I have a hell of a time determining which particular copy of the Source folder a given finder window refers to.
By the way, who decided that the way to sort one's documents is by type? Isn't a picture a document? If I have both pictures and vid clips from my trip to Vegas, shouldn't those be grouped together? This proliferation of specializations of the Documents folders makes no sense to me. (On Mac or on Windows.)
Mozilla per se (esp. on the non 1.0 branch) isn't really targeted at the casual user. Regardless, as a first iteration, it's probably wise not to turn it on by default; you get less overwhelmed by feedback regarding the same issues that way. Make it the default when it's mature.
They sued Sonic Blue, and not too much later the company has to declare bankruptcy. Think expensive legal costs might have pushed them over the edge? Seems likely to me.
Or, if you're not going to do that many photos, consider using one of the internet photo services such as WalMart's. You would probably have to do quite a few prints before that route would prove more expensive than doing it yourself, and they have the experience to do a better quality print than your average home user.
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Did you tell your parents? Maybe I'm just an overactive parent with a lot of computer knowledge, but if my kid told me about an incident like that, I'd be having some words with them about their computer system.
/. discussions with people definitely young enough to be my kid; I'll put my old fogey badge on now...
Ok, I'm now having
Man, some of those profs make some nice coin -- esp. considering the cost of living for Iowa.
Seriously, why not just make salary figures public? In Iowa, all state employee salaries are public information, and most newspapers publish them at least once each year. It just keeps everybody honest.
Yes, but you're assuming businesses want to be honest. I think it's pretty obvious that they want to pay people as little as possible, and getting people not to reveal their salaries is one way to do this.
I must say that I passed the honesty test once, when I found an income statement from a co-worker. I gave it to him a few minutes later without looking at anything beyond the name.
I turned on strong password authentication when I was promoted.
Did you ever consider going biometric?
A bunch of U.are.U (or similar) fingerprint readers would probably be a fair bit safer than any system that forces difficult-to-remember passwords, and many users would like the instant-login possibility.
All good points.
Yes, I know, RMS already wrote the code, but I am now the holder of the patent on EMACS, a full featured text editing program with a fully-functional LISP facility and a kitchen sink on the side.
You know, I think there are a lot of people who think you would be doing the world a favor by never licensing that patent...
So, why the excitment about this later Perelman paper? Has the Dunwoody paper been debunked?
The part of the proof where it says "then a miracle occurs..." is being questioned by numerous mathematicians.
Ya wanna lose weight, ya knock off with the food intake.
Yeah, you spend the next six months feeling like you're starving, then tell me how easy it is.
I exercise more, have more muscle, and eat a more healthy diet than a lot of people who are thinner than I am. Some of us have metabolic systems rigged towards putting on the pounds.
I used to be a big Viewsonic fan.
:-(
Me too. I'm typing this while looking at an eight-year-old Viewsonic 20G. Upstairs I have a Viewsonic PF790, which is a refurbished replacement for the original that completely blew out on me; and the refurb they sent has a red tint on the left side of the screen (so I don't think much of their support either.) Given the shipping cost, I didn't send that back too.
Apparently they don't make 'em like they used to -- and monitors are something I would actually hang onto for a while.
the variety of vertical market apps for that platform just isn't there [...] what if you want to run AutoCAD.
Demanding that you run one particularly unenthralling piece of software (so clunky that they bought out Rev-It and are moving towards that as their solution for the future) is hardly evidence of the lack of variety. That's like saying the market isn't there on PCs 'cause you can't run iTunes.
There are lots of smaller apps that a large company needs that only run on a PC.
Run VectorWorks if you need CAD on Macs. Tain't like Mac people have never heard of the concept of CAD... You don't need AutoCad specifically unless you need flawless back-and-forth transfer with someone who won't switch from AutoCad.
It can't be that intrusive - all such proxies are trivial to bypass. Just search google for "cgiproxy" ...unless they block google, of course.
The more people are invited to the party, the
greater chance you have to find someone to have a relationship with.
So go to other parties. Have interests outside of work that help you meet people. Intra-office dating isn't always the best thing, anyway; breaking up can be very awkward. And contractors end up meeting more people by working for more companies.
Ye, that way when you leave the house with the PPC/Palm no one will have those neat functions and probably won't be able to find the old remotes.
I don't know about you, but I've got an old PDA. Certainly for the price of one of these high-end remotes you could buy a learning remote just for the purpose instead. The only issue I can think of is battery life.
My HP 722c has been going strong for ~4 years now
Mine hasn't, I finally gave up and bought a laser printer for most printing. Occasionally I can wangle a decent print out of it when I need color, but I've done far too few pages for what it cost me for it to malfunction like it has. HP also won't detail the printer language (making Linux support a challenge), and the paper path is anything but straight.
Why do you think the US has what is generally regarded to be one of the worst health care systems in the first world, and the most expensive drugs?
'Cause we're highly self-critical, and we have the most money. What's a good test of how good a country's medical research facilities are? I'd say checking out where recent Nobel Prize winners have done their work. Do a google search, and you'll find more than half are Americans or based in America.
Wouldn't the Linux/OSS advancement efforts be better served if maybe this team of people had worked for a week and released a complete "Duke Nukem 3D" for Linux?
Given the rest of your theme, the real question may be "why not hack the Quake engine to give it DN3D support"? Is there anything fundamental about the Duke code that is better than Quake, or is it the data that makes the Duke? If the latter, all you really need is some way to import Duke data into Quake. (Or perhaps Doom, so you have 2-D sprite support.)
Futurama had an episode where Amy got a call on her cell phone.
In Futurama, I would have thought it would actually be a cell (as opposed to a contraction of cellular.)
That formula certainly never gets old.
"Three's Company" lasted seven years on that formula...
Some people like a big package.
Sometimes you want big, but sometimes you want small if you're going to do something different with it, you know, like put it somewhere that can't take something big. What I'd really like is a selectable package size.
Umm, we are still talking about Mozilla, right?
The space comes from Slashcode, somehow related to prevention of screwing up the page formatting by including extra-long words. You're better off doing this, anyway.
any one watching Fox news has probably never heard of PBS let alone watched it.
...and they'd probably have trouble spelling it too.
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I'm not much in agreement with the author either. As a developer, with multiple versions to deal with, I have a whole bunch of folders with the same name. The insistence of the Mac OS of not showing the path means that I have a hell of a time determining which particular copy of the Source folder a given finder window refers to.
By the way, who decided that the way to sort one's documents is by type? Isn't a picture a document? If I have both pictures and vid clips from my trip to Vegas, shouldn't those be grouped together? This proliferation of specializations of the Documents folders makes no sense to me. (On Mac or on Windows.)
Not on by default? What's up with this?
Mozilla per se (esp. on the non 1.0 branch) isn't really targeted at the casual user. Regardless, as a first iteration, it's probably wise not to turn it on by default; you get less overwhelmed by feedback regarding the same issues that way. Make it the default when it's mature.
They sued Sonic Blue, and not too much later the company has to declare bankruptcy. Think expensive legal costs might have pushed them over the edge? Seems likely to me.
I say we all go smack Jack Valenti.
The story is certainly full of shit
No it isn't, although it is pretty offal...
Mostly photos? Epson 825 or 925.
Or, if you're not going to do that many photos, consider using one of the internet photo services such as WalMart's. You would probably have to do quite a few prints before that route would prove more expensive than doing it yourself, and they have the experience to do a better quality print than your average home user.