That it's 2009 already and Google are having trouble nailing down a favicon is pretty silly to me. This is something you see in companies that are too immature to understand that Engineer != Designer != Writer != Marketer != Salesman and so on.
Naturally I'm bitter because I'm a graphics person, and I've seen so many engineers try to do "design wheelies" with the drawing tools in Excel and get hopelessly stuck on the role of decoration in design during lunchroom conversations...but come on. Your opinion matters as far as your experience does. At some point you have to admit that the designer with an MFA did actually learn a thing or two and your brain can't always make up with ingenuity what it lacks in experience.
Yank the engineers out of the identity process and get somebody who looks in from the outside and does the real research on identity with *real* experience. Hire the Paul Rand or whoever and get it over with already - this blog-friendly approach to identity is so democratic that it makes you look like a bunch of indecisive hippies who take my graphic design class rather than the ultra-innovative next-generation types you aspire to be. sorry...
This week it was announced that the Synchrotron, North America's most advanced feminine menstrual cycle calculator, has been granted its first wish since becoming sentient: A sci-fi writer in waiting.
IT WILL BE MY CLOSEST CONFIDANT said Madame Synchrotron as she ha ha hahaha
hahahahahahahaha ha. ha. Sorry, couldn't go through with it.
I also give the book a 9...I own it
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Ubuntu Kung Fu
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I've been using Ubuntu since 4.??, pretty much day in and day out for work, and this book was worth the purchase. The other Ubuntu books at the bookstore seemed like conversions of normal Linux books, whereas this one was thick and specifically aimed at Ubuntu users. Hope to see more like this in the future, specifically books aimed at helping graphic design-types become more productive;-)
I don't think we can say that even the previous generation of Vietnamese deserve all the blame for what happened. LBJ helped make the bed, as did politicians on the other side of the Pacific. And to say that the average family supported the suppression of free speech...that might be going a little far.:-)
Don't worry, Slashdot is the tab that always crashes Firefox for me now, and I'm not blind. I think Slashdot just hates everybody. Before us I guess it was IE users.;-)
I'm a Mormon. What's likely to happen is something like this:
Your Mormon boss comes in late to work one day and says, "sorry I missed our meeting this morning; I forgot we had to drive down to Provo to take my son to the MTC."
You give him a strange look, but it's your boss so you want to be understanding. "MTC? What's that?"
Then your boss cringes, big-time. He remembers last week when you ordered a beer at the team lunch. He thinks, "crud, I'm an idiot and just assumed this polite, new employee was a Mormon. How I play this may determine what sort of lawsuit comes up against the company." Your boss may have just moved up the ladder from a job at a place where everyone was Mormon, and he just forgot that this time things could be different.
It really could be anything that gives you away. Perhaps your resume says you went to school at Notre Dame or Pepperdine or you ask a co-worker what that big white building is doing on the side of the hill and why it's always closed on Sundays. You're not a Roman, and you don't know Rome yet. So how could you possibly expect to do as the Romans and not give yourself away?
I expect most Mormons will bend over backwards to accomodate you and whatever beliefs you do and don't hold. I did that for several non-LDS co-workers of mine when I worked in Utah. We became really good friends. The problem is, you're moving to Mormon HQ. You're going to meet half-in, half-out Mormons, Mormons by marriage, dedicated 24/7 Mormons, ex-con Mormons, Mormons who drink and smoke, Mormons who think you would be the best next member of our church, and even Mormons who mismanage their company. They're just people. Look for good _people_ and try associate with them, especially if you're looking for work.
Right now I live in California, in a hugely non-religious area, and I've probably been discriminated against many times on the basis of my religion. My resume practically screams Mormon. I've gotten so I can easily detect people tiptoeing around those points and some have dropped hints that they don't understand why a Mormon would want to work around drinkers, drug users, etc. because they certainly wouldn't be comfortable around a Mormon.
I'm not the type to jump at suing people for discrimination, but I've had many opportunities to do so if I wished. In each case I decided that I would probably hate the job anyway, so I moved on. You may have to make your own decision about this. Good luck! Hope you find yourself in a good job with good people.
In a later announcement, excited Broadcom executives and laboratory scientists said during a joint press conference that it is physically impossible to make the new chip compatible with Linux.
"We really want to be clear about this groundbreaking news," Broadcom chief scientist Daryl Ellison said. "Not only is this a miracle of modern technology, but it will be frustratingly incompatible with Linux installs everywhere. This continues our absolutely firm commitment - to keep Ubuntu off of the laptop you got for Christmas last year, every year."
Broadcom public relations executives could not be reached for comment.
Seriously, look at the "Start" page on the JavaFX website. It gives you a choice of *three* radio buttons, and confusingly presents three different JavaFX-related packages. Nowhere does it say, "download all of these and get started," or even "which one do I want? Click our little expanding
button to find out."
Combine that with the 2nd-tier graphic design and interactivity going on all over the place, and it feels sort of like something that a) isn't going to win over the designer crowd and b) WHY on earth would Linux fans look at this as anything other than a snub? Sigh. (Anyway, I've downloaded all three packages, and I'll give it a go...)
Where are you getting your *sharp* space wallpaper images from? 99% of the space wallpaper images I've seen look like they were scanned in from a newspaper. Basically it seems like they were blown up from a smaller size, letting an interpolating algorithm have it's way. Or they are just old images from old space hardware. I prefer crisp images, so I'm wondering if there are any out there besides the awesome ones from the surface of Mars...
You've got a few choices. Konqueror does that. Hotwire is sort of meant to explore a similar idea. http://hotwire-shell.org/ I'm sure there are others, too.
That's worth considering. I wonder what sort of protections could be put in place to make it less viable. Of course, once you've done something that devious on your work computer network, I'd say you pretty much better assume that if caught you would be fired.
Dave Richards, the administrator of the Largo, Florida computer network, came up against this problem. He made the system mount USB disks as FTP shares, and made the file browser hide any executable files on the share so they couldn't be transferred.http://davelargo.blogspot.com/2008/02/hp-thin-clients-and-usb-access-for.html
I'm not surprised the DoD just completely shut the door on these things, but I think that for most admins, a solution like Dave's would be a really good compromise.
Agreed. These people are demonstrating something almost completely useless while I use a very traditional method - text entry via keyboard - to learn programming in a console. And I'm a 3D illustrator.
People keep harping about 3D visualization being the next big thing, but while these awkward, hammer-seeks-nail inventions come and go, simple things like the classic terminal are *increasing* in popularity, if anything. New Linux users and experienced Mac users are saying things like, "actually, I just use the terminal to do such-and-such a task; it's faster that way."
..."Programmers care about computers in the same way other computer experts do."
I've found this to be a huge fallacy after working as a relative outsider with teams of programmers for years now. I've found that the best programmers I know are incredibly stubborn and those who care about their OS are very picky about it. The Mac-using programmers I know like it because everything "just works." The Windows-using programmers I know like it because they're too busy thinking about algorithms to care how it works, as long as they know how to edit and compile. The Linux-using programmers I know are too antisocial to talk about why they use it in person, but from reading their blogs I gather that they are usually either very angry inside or very, very creative.;-)
I went to eBay and picked up a used Dell Axim from 2003. $75. I added a hard case and a new battery for an extra $40. The battery lasts for a full week and a half of reading. Then I bought the μBook reader for $15. I went over to Manybooks.net, looked through the reviews, and downloaded a bunch of ebooks to read. I put the unused SD card from my camera in the PDA, and now I've got a gigantic reading library, with 8-directional game pad for Nintendo emulation, MP3 player, Japanese word processor/dictionary, etc.
When I go to my public library, I use the PDA's Wi-fi to surf the web and look at book reviews for anything in paper form that I might want to check out or reserve.
No, the Kindle would not be cost-effective for me. With the extra ~$245 I saved, I bought a Wacom tablet and some programming books.
Some of us have more than one hobby and don't like supporting a single, simple hobby like reading with chunks of $400 or more.
...are you one of those way-out-there creepy uncles? I mean, you DID just submit an Ask/. about science career possibilities for your niece.
Getting to *your* question though, if she got a perfect score in math, but hates math, she's probably a good candidate for theater or music. When I was a film major, I knew a lot of weirdos like your niece.
I agree. The risks are bad enough with Google that I've decided to migrate away from Google services. I'm steering my business into locally-developed and locally-hosted services, since many of my (admittedly hippie, but rich hippie) clients have started to notice that gigantic chunks of their business information can end up somewhere in a large "fog" of data centers. I say fog because "cloud" sounds too optimistic and doesn't do the obscuring nature of the whole thing justice.
MS wouldn't do this for free. Myhrvold probably offered them some insanely great deal whereby MS benefits from the patent trolling and Myhrvold operates with the understanding that industry majors (MS, Apple, Sony, etc.) won't be on his back about it.
Myhrvold is going in the direction he sees most defensible and profitable: We're just following what the law says and protecting our ideas.
The way I see it, Myhrvold is going to launch the attack before the public at large start realizing how dangerous the concept of IP is.
It is interesting that Google are on board too, though.
If I had a mobile home, or if I lived on a boat, I would be really tempted just to follow the data centers and live wherever there's a major one. Seems like the Columbia river would be nice to have next door for the power-generation potential, also. Especially coming from someplace like California, where we have blackouts all the time. If the economy *is* going down the tubes, then now may be just the time to pick a strategic home base.
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That it's 2009 already and Google are having trouble nailing down a favicon is pretty silly to me. This is something you see in companies that are too immature to understand that Engineer != Designer != Writer != Marketer != Salesman and so on.
Naturally I'm bitter because I'm a graphics person, and I've seen so many engineers try to do "design wheelies" with the drawing tools in Excel and get hopelessly stuck on the role of decoration in design during lunchroom conversations...but come on. Your opinion matters as far as your experience does. At some point you have to admit that the designer with an MFA did actually learn a thing or two and your brain can't always make up with ingenuity what it lacks in experience.
Yank the engineers out of the identity process and get somebody who looks in from the outside and does the real research on identity with *real* experience. Hire the Paul Rand or whoever and get it over with already - this blog-friendly approach to identity is so democratic that it makes you look like a bunch of indecisive hippies who take my graphic design class rather than the ultra-innovative next-generation types you aspire to be. sorry...
This week it was announced that the Synchrotron, North America's most advanced feminine menstrual cycle calculator, has been granted its first wish since becoming sentient: A sci-fi writer in waiting.
IT WILL BE MY CLOSEST CONFIDANT said Madame Synchrotron as she ha ha
hahaha
hahahahahahahaha ha. ha. Sorry, couldn't go through with it.
I've been using Ubuntu since 4.??, pretty much day in and day out for work, and this book was worth the purchase. The other Ubuntu books at the bookstore seemed like conversions of normal Linux books, whereas this one was thick and specifically aimed at Ubuntu users. Hope to see more like this in the future, specifically books aimed at helping graphic design-types become more productive ;-)
I don't think we can say that even the previous generation of Vietnamese deserve all the blame for what happened. LBJ helped make the bed, as did politicians on the other side of the Pacific. And to say that the average family supported the suppression of free speech...that might be going a little far. :-)
Don't worry, Slashdot is the tab that always crashes Firefox for me now, and I'm not blind. I think Slashdot just hates everybody. Before us I guess it was IE users. ;-)
I'm a Mormon. What's likely to happen is something like this:
Your Mormon boss comes in late to work one day and says, "sorry I missed our meeting this morning; I forgot we had to drive down to Provo to take my son to the MTC."
You give him a strange look, but it's your boss so you want to be understanding. "MTC? What's that?"
Then your boss cringes, big-time. He remembers last week when you ordered a beer at the team lunch. He thinks, "crud, I'm an idiot and just assumed this polite, new employee was a Mormon. How I play this may determine what sort of lawsuit comes up against the company." Your boss may have just moved up the ladder from a job at a place where everyone was Mormon, and he just forgot that this time things could be different.
It really could be anything that gives you away. Perhaps your resume says you went to school at Notre Dame or Pepperdine or you ask a co-worker what that big white building is doing on the side of the hill and why it's always closed on Sundays. You're not a Roman, and you don't know Rome yet. So how could you possibly expect to do as the Romans and not give yourself away?
I expect most Mormons will bend over backwards to accomodate you and whatever beliefs you do and don't hold. I did that for several non-LDS co-workers of mine when I worked in Utah. We became really good friends. The problem is, you're moving to Mormon HQ. You're going to meet half-in, half-out Mormons, Mormons by marriage, dedicated 24/7 Mormons, ex-con Mormons, Mormons who drink and smoke, Mormons who think you would be the best next member of our church, and even Mormons who mismanage their company. They're just people. Look for good _people_ and try associate with them, especially if you're looking for work.
Right now I live in California, in a hugely non-religious area, and I've probably been discriminated against many times on the basis of my religion. My resume practically screams Mormon. I've gotten so I can easily detect people tiptoeing around those points and some have dropped hints that they don't understand why a Mormon would want to work around drinkers, drug users, etc. because they certainly wouldn't be comfortable around a Mormon.
I'm not the type to jump at suing people for discrimination, but I've had many opportunities to do so if I wished. In each case I decided that I would probably hate the job anyway, so I moved on. You may have to make your own decision about this. Good luck! Hope you find yourself in a good job with good people.
In a later announcement, excited Broadcom executives and laboratory scientists said during a joint press conference that it is physically impossible to make the new chip compatible with Linux.
"We really want to be clear about this groundbreaking news," Broadcom chief scientist Daryl Ellison said. "Not only is this a miracle of modern technology, but it will be frustratingly incompatible with Linux installs everywhere. This continues our absolutely firm commitment - to keep Ubuntu off of the laptop you got for Christmas last year, every year."
Broadcom public relations executives could not be reached for comment.
Add to that the MS Paint diagrams, and you have a big question mark on your hands...
button to find out."
Combine that with the 2nd-tier graphic design and interactivity going on all over the place, and it feels sort of like something that a) isn't going to win over the designer crowd and b) WHY on earth would Linux fans look at this as anything other than a snub? Sigh. (Anyway, I've downloaded all three packages, and I'll give it a go...)
Where are you getting your *sharp* space wallpaper images from? 99% of the space wallpaper images I've seen look like they were scanned in from a newspaper. Basically it seems like they were blown up from a smaller size, letting an interpolating algorithm have it's way. Or they are just old images from old space hardware. I prefer crisp images, so I'm wondering if there are any out there besides the awesome ones from the surface of Mars...
My cat would like to thank you for that moment of entertainment we participated in at the Boohbah website.
And routinely praising Apple for being...proprietary.
You've got a few choices. Konqueror does that. Hotwire is sort of meant to explore a similar idea. http://hotwire-shell.org/ I'm sure there are others, too.
That's worth considering. I wonder what sort of protections could be put in place to make it less viable. Of course, once you've done something that devious on your work computer network, I'd say you pretty much better assume that if caught you would be fired.
Dave Richards, the administrator of the Largo, Florida computer network, came up against this problem. He made the system mount USB disks as FTP shares, and made the file browser hide any executable files on the share so they couldn't be transferred.http://davelargo.blogspot.com/2008/02/hp-thin-clients-and-usb-access-for.html
I'm not surprised the DoD just completely shut the door on these things, but I think that for most admins, a solution like Dave's would be a really good compromise.
Agreed. These people are demonstrating something almost completely useless while I use a very traditional method - text entry via keyboard - to learn programming in a console. And I'm a 3D illustrator.
People keep harping about 3D visualization being the next big thing, but while these awkward, hammer-seeks-nail inventions come and go, simple things like the classic terminal are *increasing* in popularity, if anything. New Linux users and experienced Mac users are saying things like, "actually, I just use the terminal to do such-and-such a task; it's faster that way."
>he made the stars also.
Where does it say *when* he made them?
...coincidence? Something tells me no.
That desktop is CDE. It's a desktop environment that happens to be running on aix.
..."Programmers care about computers in the same way other computer experts do."
;-)
I've found this to be a huge fallacy after working as a relative outsider with teams of programmers for years now. I've found that the best programmers I know are incredibly stubborn and those who care about their OS are very picky about it. The Mac-using programmers I know like it because everything "just works." The Windows-using programmers I know like it because they're too busy thinking about algorithms to care how it works, as long as they know how to edit and compile. The Linux-using programmers I know are too antisocial to talk about why they use it in person, but from reading their blogs I gather that they are usually either very angry inside or very, very creative.
I went to eBay and picked up a used Dell Axim from 2003. $75. I added a hard case and a new battery for an extra $40. The battery lasts for a full week and a half of reading. Then I bought the μBook reader for $15. I went over to Manybooks.net, looked through the reviews, and downloaded a bunch of ebooks to read. I put the unused SD card from my camera in the PDA, and now I've got a gigantic reading library, with 8-directional game pad for Nintendo emulation, MP3 player, Japanese word processor/dictionary, etc.
When I go to my public library, I use the PDA's Wi-fi to surf the web and look at book reviews for anything in paper form that I might want to check out or reserve.
No, the Kindle would not be cost-effective for me. With the extra ~$245 I saved, I bought a Wacom tablet and some programming books.
Some of us have more than one hobby and don't like supporting a single, simple hobby like reading with chunks of $400 or more.
...are you one of those way-out-there creepy uncles? I mean, you DID just submit an Ask /. about science career possibilities for your niece.
Getting to *your* question though, if she got a perfect score in math, but hates math, she's probably a good candidate for theater or music. When I was a film major, I knew a lot of weirdos like your niece.
I agree. The risks are bad enough with Google that I've decided to migrate away from Google services. I'm steering my business into locally-developed and locally-hosted services, since many of my (admittedly hippie, but rich hippie) clients have started to notice that gigantic chunks of their business information can end up somewhere in a large "fog" of data centers. I say fog because "cloud" sounds too optimistic and doesn't do the obscuring nature of the whole thing justice.
MS wouldn't do this for free. Myhrvold probably offered them some insanely great deal whereby MS benefits from the patent trolling and Myhrvold operates with the understanding that industry majors (MS, Apple, Sony, etc.) won't be on his back about it.
Myhrvold is going in the direction he sees most defensible and profitable: We're just following what the law says and protecting our ideas.
The way I see it, Myhrvold is going to launch the attack before the public at large start realizing how dangerous the concept of IP is.
It is interesting that Google are on board too, though.
If I had a mobile home, or if I lived on a boat, I would be really tempted just to follow the data centers and live wherever there's a major one. Seems like the Columbia river would be nice to have next door for the power-generation potential, also. Especially coming from someplace like California, where we have blackouts all the time. If the economy *is* going down the tubes, then now may be just the time to pick a strategic home base.