Like Prop 8 in California is a "vote against gay marriage", when in reality it is a Constitutional Amendment defining marriage. It doesn't even discuss equality in any way.
My favorite part is now judges are reviewing it to see if it's "Constitutional". IT'S A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT, so I would have to say, "Yes."
Caps Lock
Insert
Scroll Lock
Pause/Break (only useful for System Properties shortcut or to read text on bootup)
Right Windows Key
Menu Key
Keys that would be more useful:
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That said, F-Lock wasn't a horrible idea, just a bad implementation to remove F-Keys which are useful in Explorer and Programming. And all us programmers have all the Ctrl keys for those memorized anyway.
It's easy to write your own keyboard driver with the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator. I made one that allows me to type all the stuff I used to bring up the character map for by giving myself an AltGr key on my right Alt. I can now type copyright symbols, fractions, Greek & math characters, European language characters, etc. with ease.
And what happens when you start browsing the web at work? You get super annoyed because the Search window won't come up and everyone starts wondering why you are shouting at them...
Seriously. I worked as an Assistant MIS Director at a university. I worked my way up from student worker.
My boss complained when I came in at 8:05 AM after staying until 10:00 PM the night before, and I didn't get overtime!
I told her, "Fine, but be careful of what you wish for. From now on, I will come in at 8:00 on the dot every morning. But I will take a break from 10 AM to 10:15 AM, no matter who is here, what they want or what's on fire. I will leave for lunch at noon exactly and I will come back at 1. I will leave at 5 on the dot, and don't expect me to stay a minute later. If you want to count time, that's what we'll do."
Sure enough, since we were hopelessly understaffed, there was a line in my cubicle at 10 AM. Too bad. I put up a pre-printed sign that said, "On Break" and made them wait. There was a major problem right before lunch the same day, but I went ahead and left it. (The network admin had to struggle through it, but he applauded me for doing the right thing.) When I came back at 1, she brought me into her office and told me that she had rethought it and that I was right!
The gardener already got blown up by stepping on residue. I think "Nuke it from orbit" is the appropriate response. I think it's pretty sad that the owners get nothing. I thought we have a society and community in order to help each other out, not for the government to hoard as much wealth as possible and deny payment whenever possible.
I used to work from home and I happened to be in the living room going back up to the office when I heard a truck. I was expecting a UPS package so I looked out the window. The truck stopped for about 3 seconds without anybody getting out and then hightailed it toward the cul-de-sac. I ran out and stood in the middle of the street and the truck almost hit me. That's what it takes to get your package sometimes.
Another time I had a package sent back to the manufacturer without any notification whatsoever. I went to the local UPS office to complain and there were 3 cards filled out by the driver in my file. We never got our copy of them.
They've improved lately (after 1 year personal bans).
My experience is that there is a lot you can do that is very cheap.
One time, I walked into a mortgage company (I'm a developer, not a DBA) and they were complaining that they couldn't run a required government report breaking down their fee codes because it would time out after 2 minutes. The table had millions of records. I looked at the table and immediately noticed that they didn't have an index on fee code, which the report was trying to sort and total by. I told the manager that I would add an index on the fee code column after hours and run the report. He wasn't sure it would work so he said, "Go ahead and add it now."
I added the index (which took about 30 seconds) and ran the report again. It finished in 45 seconds.
I looked at the report. Whoever wrote it for them was concatenating strings all over the place. Millions of them. I switched the app to StringBuilder using a search-and-replace.
I ran the report again. 8 seconds. In less than an hour I took a report that wasn't finishing in 2 minutes down to 8 seconds. That wasn't expensive for them and it wasn't hard to do.
At another client, they were complaining about database slowness and the DBA wasn't having much luck fixing it. They fired him and asked me to look at it. I simply recorded a profiler log (a little slower for that day, but it's already dog slow so who would notice), found the longest duration and most common queries and then searched the source code repository and rewrote them. Many of these queries were cross-joins, missing indexes on the joined field or other really obvious problems. One was doing a data conversion on every record instead of data converting the passed in input once. It took me about 2-3 days to solve massive slowness problems. At the end, the employees were saying, "I'm glad they finally bought a new database server." This was at one of the country's largest mortgage companies with tens of millions of records in the database. And the fixes should have been brain-dead obvious to anyone with a few years of SQL experience.
I had one class like that. I learned to write really small. 3 lines on the title bar and 2 per ruled line. I fit 3 units' formulas, vocabulary and examples on a single card, front and back. That was about 30 chapters' worth of stuff.
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Or just go to a hotel in Vegas...
Like Prop 8 in California is a "vote against gay marriage", when in reality it is a Constitutional Amendment defining marriage. It doesn't even discuss equality in any way.
My favorite part is now judges are reviewing it to see if it's "Constitutional". IT'S A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT, so I would have to say, "Yes."
The women both tweeted afterward that they were happy to have been with "a celebrity".
One woman has been tied as a family member to a US military officer in Afghanistan.
Their tweets where they were bragging about doing it with a celebrity afterward?
Actually, keys I could stand to see removed:
Caps Lock
Insert
Scroll Lock
Pause/Break (only useful for System Properties shortcut or to read text on bootup)
Right Windows Key
Menu Key
Keys that would be more useful:
Bold
Italics
Cut
Copy
Paste
Print
Save
Select All
That said, F-Lock wasn't a horrible idea, just a bad implementation to remove F-Keys which are useful in Explorer and Programming. And all us programmers have all the Ctrl keys for those memorized anyway.
It's easy to write your own keyboard driver with the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator. I made one that allows me to type all the stuff I used to bring up the character map for by giving myself an AltGr key on my right Alt. I can now type copyright symbols, fractions, Greek & math characters, European language characters, etc. with ease.
I usually use Right Shift for that...
And what happens when you start browsing the web at work? You get super annoyed because the Search window won't come up and everyone starts wondering why you are shouting at them...
You put 30-Second Skip to the left of Instant Replay???
What, now we have to read the articles?!? What's happening to this place?
Seriously. I worked as an Assistant MIS Director at a university. I worked my way up from student worker.
My boss complained when I came in at 8:05 AM after staying until 10:00 PM the night before, and I didn't get overtime!
I told her, "Fine, but be careful of what you wish for. From now on, I will come in at 8:00 on the dot every morning. But I will take a break from 10 AM to 10:15 AM, no matter who is here, what they want or what's on fire. I will leave for lunch at noon exactly and I will come back at 1. I will leave at 5 on the dot, and don't expect me to stay a minute later. If you want to count time, that's what we'll do."
Sure enough, since we were hopelessly understaffed, there was a line in my cubicle at 10 AM. Too bad. I put up a pre-printed sign that said, "On Break" and made them wait. There was a major problem right before lunch the same day, but I went ahead and left it. (The network admin had to struggle through it, but he applauded me for doing the right thing.) When I came back at 1, she brought me into her office and told me that she had rethought it and that I was right!
The gardener already got blown up by stepping on residue. I think "Nuke it from orbit" is the appropriate response. I think it's pretty sad that the owners get nothing. I thought we have a society and community in order to help each other out, not for the government to hoard as much wealth as possible and deny payment whenever possible.
Many of us would rather die with dignity than to live under oppression.
Nope.
Does it fix the "I can't paste into a textarea" bug?
I was using it instead of Firefox, but that one's a dealkiller for me.
Sadly, I could read that...
Unless she becomes president...
John Kerry wanted to sit down with the terrorists and give in to whatever they wanted. I'm pretty sure that killed his chances.
Google should just block searches for "Apple" for a day or two...
I used to work from home and I happened to be in the living room going back up to the office when I heard a truck. I was expecting a UPS package so I looked out the window. The truck stopped for about 3 seconds without anybody getting out and then hightailed it toward the cul-de-sac. I ran out and stood in the middle of the street and the truck almost hit me. That's what it takes to get your package sometimes.
Another time I had a package sent back to the manufacturer without any notification whatsoever. I went to the local UPS office to complain and there were 3 cards filled out by the driver in my file. We never got our copy of them.
They've improved lately (after 1 year personal bans).
My favorite:
* Requires 10 years of C# experience
(The .NET Framework was created in 2002.)
A commenter in the original article has it right.
It's like a paid swimming pool having a back door that's completely open where you could walk in and have a free swim.
The guy who is being sued in this case is not the guy who had a free swim, but the guy who said, "Hey, the back door is open at that swimming pool."
I think the hockey game is probably over...
My experience is that there is a lot you can do that is very cheap.
One time, I walked into a mortgage company (I'm a developer, not a DBA) and they were complaining that they couldn't run a required government report breaking down their fee codes because it would time out after 2 minutes. The table had millions of records. I looked at the table and immediately noticed that they didn't have an index on fee code, which the report was trying to sort and total by. I told the manager that I would add an index on the fee code column after hours and run the report. He wasn't sure it would work so he said, "Go ahead and add it now."
I added the index (which took about 30 seconds) and ran the report again. It finished in 45 seconds.
I looked at the report. Whoever wrote it for them was concatenating strings all over the place. Millions of them. I switched the app to StringBuilder using a search-and-replace.
I ran the report again. 8 seconds. In less than an hour I took a report that wasn't finishing in 2 minutes down to 8 seconds. That wasn't expensive for them and it wasn't hard to do.
At another client, they were complaining about database slowness and the DBA wasn't having much luck fixing it. They fired him and asked me to look at it. I simply recorded a profiler log (a little slower for that day, but it's already dog slow so who would notice), found the longest duration and most common queries and then searched the source code repository and rewrote them. Many of these queries were cross-joins, missing indexes on the joined field or other really obvious problems. One was doing a data conversion on every record instead of data converting the passed in input once. It took me about 2-3 days to solve massive slowness problems. At the end, the employees were saying, "I'm glad they finally bought a new database server." This was at one of the country's largest mortgage companies with tens of millions of records in the database. And the fixes should have been brain-dead obvious to anyone with a few years of SQL experience.
MySpace is also slower than maple syrup in January.
I had one class like that. I learned to write really small. 3 lines on the title bar and 2 per ruled line. I fit 3 units' formulas, vocabulary and examples on a single card, front and back. That was about 30 chapters' worth of stuff.