Why buy when you can go to the library? I take out approximately 30 items a month.
If you really assess your "need" for a certain book, you'll find there are very few you need... especially fiction. That book in the library really isn't going anywhere.
Even my technical/computer reference has changed recently. When I was in university, I bought an obscene amount of reference material, especially for programming languages. They sit on my shelf collecting dust, some for years without being touched. Why bother when you have the internet and the library?
I'm guessing you've read Corporate Confidential, or something like it. Or maybe you just see the corporate world for what it is.
A lot of people really don't understand that HR works for the company, not the employees. They have to make nice or have the appearance of making nice, but their main priority is figuring out which employees will cost them the most to deal with. They answer to management alone, and you can damn well bet they'll try to collect as much "evidence" against you as they can.
A corollary to that third sentence is that the percentage of gamers or potential gamers is probably much higher among those who use or consider using Linux.
We need to keep in mind there's a big chunk of people who use Windows who tend not to be gamers. Your own parents, aunts and uncles, seniors, adults who just had a family. Never mind all the Windows users (Windows market share) in the workplace who aren't about to install games on those machines.
What, then, is the true percentage of the Windows gamer's market? It's actually not logical to claim that if Windows:Linux usage is 100:1, then the gaming market is also 100:1.
Those bloody U3 drives are the bane of my existence. I work in a print shop, so people bring those in all the time. Click, click here and there, "gosh, this is cd drive", "you have to reboot" (I don't). Even more fun are the "secure" drives that want to install an executable to allow access to a file. Fun arguing with people over that one, especially the ones who don't "get it". The ones who do "get it" panic that they need their file and I should just open it anyway because they promise it will be ok.
The Kodak photo cd's are along the same lines too. In order to view a directory so I can select specific pictures, I have to click several times to get out of the "here's a slideshow, oh are you quitting the slideshow, are you sure, ok we just quit the slideshow" screens.
Insert drive. View contents. Why does this have to be difficult?
I recall a more recent issue of 2600 which had fun with the programs U3 drives autorun... for example, switching them to do things like report the IP & system info of the machine it was currently plugged into to their own server. Good times.//love my lexar firefly
Unless, maybe, there is an organization who is out there putting out junk files so that we are not completely sure of what we are downloading...
Ever download something and not be sure of what you're getting, or even resigning yourself to the fact it's pretty likely? The olden days of Kazaa: it happened more and more with music files, and was especially bad with porn file names.
Another similar concept is the "You are bidding on an Xbox box" days on eBay. Let's give that a twist: let's pretend, for instance, that it illegal to buy and Xbox on ebay. You bid on "Xbox box", and get an Xbox (not the box). Authorities bang on the door, and you say "Golly, gee, sir, I thought I was bidding on a box, that's what was advertised."
If you download something, you're never sure of what you got until you download it and actually open the damn thing... even if it is a file from a legitimate-looking source.
We could have real fun with this is there was legislation to make downloads of drive-by downloads and viruses illegal.
I'm a woman who just turned 30, so I'm curious to see if the supposed want for female geeks will negate the bias against people assuming women of a certain age are going to get knocked up and leave work right away.
I graduate in two years. Currently no spouse or boyfriend - regardless, I will likely not be having children anyway. I don't see myself working so hard to get my career on the go only to make myself unemployable right away.
My dad was in for pacemaker/defibrillator surgery last year, and I noticed there was a screen in the hallway which showed all the stats of the patients in the ward. I joked to my Dad that I should ask what protocol they were using so I could put real-time updates on his facebook page.
I read an interesting book recently (Refuse to Choose) which points out those with varied or passionate interests might be better served with a "good enough" job, and use their other time to pursue the things they are passionate about. It also points out other jobs that allow you more flexibility so you can do the things you want to outside of work time.
There's always seems to be the expectation that anyone who's moderately bright must find a totally fulfilling cool job that constantly pushes them. That's not a reasonable expectation, nor the likely reality.
A few months ago, I showed a proof of a job for a client of out local CNIB. She bent down towards the counter, with her nose three inches away from the paper. "Oh!" she said, "This looks great!"
I'm probably five years away from being legally blind, myself, and I had an extremely hard time controlling myself from cracking up and laughing.
I guess I would call Adobe's pdf software a prime example of feature creep.
At home, I just use it for reading, so free Linux versions are just fine... though the one feature I sorely miss in non-Adobe versions is the lack of Extracting and Combining pdfs & pages.
As a woman who spends the first twenty seconds of her Linux user group meeting carefully choosing the optimum place to sit, I'm going to have to go with "Yes."
The key is to arrive late enough such that the stinky people are already placed, so you can pick the seat farthest away from them. Ideally, you want to pick a seat that doesn't have too many other empty seats around it (so a stinky person doesn't come in after you and foil your plans). If a bad choice is made, you have to hang on until a break to get some coffee and stealthily pick another seat.
I was at a computer store last week where a customer started prodding the buttons on a monitor, asking if these were "the manual mouse operating device". I guess he figured it would be a good idea to have a backup in case the mouse broke down.
Windows... and every program that decides it needs to pre-load and run services in memory.
When I was using Windows, the one that surprised me the most is discovering the IPod service. I guess I tried out Itunes at one point, so it figured I must automatically need the Ipod service.
Why do you insist on taking him literally when it's pretty obvious he means "business didn't seem to be hurting at all"? He could have used a better choice of words, but you're really not contributing meaningfully to the discussion.
Here, you managed to covey superiority and arrogance three times in three short sentences. Let me guess, you constantly have problems with "those stupid bastards at work". Reality check - the problem isn't them.
Same goes for many others on here. If you don't have anything meaningful to say and only want to stroke your ego, knock it off. People see right through you.
So it was not possible to come up with a more intelligent word? If you have to explain yourself, it's a sign you should have come up with a much better and concise word.
Seriously, it's people like you and Mr.(?)-Linux-is-tickling-my-clitoris that drives women away from tech.
As someone who works in a print shop, I can tell you (as I tell others):
Microsoft's stuff doesn't work with Microsoft's stuff.
Microsoft Word doesn't even work with Microsoft Word (even though their version and ours appear to be the same). Margins, layout, etc. change. Spacing can change even though you use the same font.
Microsoft's idea of print-to or export-to PDF is inconsistent and very buggy. Even if the pdf magically appears to look like it's ok, it may print differently (kerning, spacing, measurements are off (this is a really bad one), backgrounds or colours may be non-existent).
Lastly, (which is a bit of a different issue): Word is not a freaking design program.
I use it to market myself. Post cool & scientific things in your feeds, talk about geeky things in your status, and all of a sudden you look a lot smarter than you really are
If you specifically use it with networking in mind, it's really useful.
I'm always amazed how "preserving culture" means staying the same as years ago, in a monolithic state. Culture naturally evolves. The surroundings are always changing. People are free to continue certain traditions, if they like. Nothing is stopping them.
Internet tax because we assume every Canadian household has the potential to view a Canadian site and will view it with others in the room thereby denoting it a public performance?
Slashdot Mirror
Why buy when you can go to the library? I take out approximately 30 items a month.
If you really assess your "need" for a certain book, you'll find there are very few you need... especially fiction. That book in the library really isn't going anywhere.
Even my technical/computer reference has changed recently. When I was in university, I bought an obscene amount of reference material, especially for programming languages. They sit on my shelf collecting dust, some for years without being touched. Why bother when you have the internet and the library?
I'm guessing you've read Corporate Confidential, or something like it. Or maybe you just see the corporate world for what it is.
A lot of people really don't understand that HR works for the company, not the employees. They have to make nice or have the appearance of making nice, but their main priority is figuring out which employees will cost them the most to deal with. They answer to management alone, and you can damn well bet they'll try to collect as much "evidence" against you as they can.
A corollary to that third sentence is that the percentage of gamers or potential gamers is probably much higher among those who use or consider using Linux.
We need to keep in mind there's a big chunk of people who use Windows who tend not to be gamers. Your own parents, aunts and uncles, seniors, adults who just had a family. Never mind all the Windows users (Windows market share) in the workplace who aren't about to install games on those machines.
What, then, is the true percentage of the Windows gamer's market? It's actually not logical to claim that if Windows:Linux usage is 100:1, then the gaming market is also 100:1.
Those bloody U3 drives are the bane of my existence. I work in a print shop, so people bring those in all the time. Click, click here and there, "gosh, this is cd drive", "you have to reboot" (I don't). Even more fun are the "secure" drives that want to install an executable to allow access to a file. Fun arguing with people over that one, especially the ones who don't "get it". The ones who do "get it" panic that they need their file and I should just open it anyway because they promise it will be ok.
The Kodak photo cd's are along the same lines too. In order to view a directory so I can select specific pictures, I have to click several times to get out of the "here's a slideshow, oh are you quitting the slideshow, are you sure, ok we just quit the slideshow" screens.
Insert drive. View contents. Why does this have to be difficult?
I recall a more recent issue of 2600 which had fun with the programs U3 drives autorun... for example, switching them to do things like report the IP & system info of the machine it was currently plugged into to their own server. Good times. //love my lexar firefly
Indeed. Where's the rage against libraries? Who thinks libraries are a bad thing?
World of Warcraft?
Really?
every torrent must "free legal sample" in the filename. Samples somehow still seem to be 698MB or 4.1GB.
Unless, maybe, there is an organization who is out there putting out junk files so that we are not completely sure of what we are downloading...
Ever download something and not be sure of what you're getting, or even resigning yourself to the fact it's pretty likely? The olden days of Kazaa: it happened more and more with music files, and was especially bad with porn file names.
Another similar concept is the "You are bidding on an Xbox box" days on eBay. Let's give that a twist: let's pretend, for instance, that it illegal to buy and Xbox on ebay. You bid on "Xbox box", and get an Xbox (not the box). Authorities bang on the door, and you say "Golly, gee, sir, I thought I was bidding on a box, that's what was advertised."
If you download something, you're never sure of what you got until you download it and actually open the damn thing... even if it is a file from a legitimate-looking source.
We could have real fun with this is there was legislation to make downloads of drive-by downloads and viruses illegal.
I'm a woman who just turned 30, so I'm curious to see if the supposed want for female geeks will negate the bias against people assuming women of a certain age are going to get knocked up and leave work right away.
I graduate in two years. Currently no spouse or boyfriend - regardless, I will likely not be having children anyway. I don't see myself working so hard to get my career on the go only to make myself unemployable right away.
My dad was in for pacemaker/defibrillator surgery last year, and I noticed there was a screen in the hallway which showed all the stats of the patients in the ward. I joked to my Dad that I should ask what protocol they were using so I could put real-time updates on his facebook page.
Last time I visited my parents my Dad complained about this. He's pretty uptight, so I made sure I teased him relentlessly.
"Right... it came up by... accident. Seems to keep on happening, huh?"
I read an interesting book recently (Refuse to Choose) which points out those with varied or passionate interests might be better served with a "good enough" job, and use their other time to pursue the things they are passionate about. It also points out other jobs that allow you more flexibility so you can do the things you want to outside of work time.
There's always seems to be the expectation that anyone who's moderately bright must find a totally fulfilling cool job that constantly pushes them. That's not a reasonable expectation, nor the likely reality.
Low cost relative to the needs. What's a better solution, a free cell phone with a $10/month data plan?
A few months ago, I showed a proof of a job for a client of out local CNIB. She bent down towards the counter, with her nose three inches away from the paper. "Oh!" she said, "This looks great!"
I'm probably five years away from being legally blind, myself, and I had an extremely hard time controlling myself from cracking up and laughing.
I guess I would call Adobe's pdf software a prime example of feature creep.
At home, I just use it for reading, so free Linux versions are just fine... though the one feature I sorely miss in non-Adobe versions is the lack of Extracting and Combining pdfs & pages.
As a woman who spends the first twenty seconds of her Linux user group meeting carefully choosing the optimum place to sit, I'm going to have to go with "Yes."
The key is to arrive late enough such that the stinky people are already placed, so you can pick the seat farthest away from them. Ideally, you want to pick a seat that doesn't have too many other empty seats around it (so a stinky person doesn't come in after you and foil your plans). If a bad choice is made, you have to hang on until a break to get some coffee and stealthily pick another seat.
I was at a computer store last week where a customer started prodding the buttons on a monitor, asking if these were "the manual mouse operating device". I guess he figured it would be a good idea to have a backup in case the mouse broke down.
Windows... and every program that decides it needs to pre-load and run services in memory.
When I was using Windows, the one that surprised me the most is discovering the IPod service. I guess I tried out Itunes at one point, so it figured I must automatically need the Ipod service.
Why do you insist on taking him literally when it's pretty obvious he means "business didn't seem to be hurting at all"? He could have used a better choice of words, but you're really not contributing meaningfully to the discussion.
Here, you managed to covey superiority and arrogance three times in three short sentences. Let me guess, you constantly have problems with "those stupid bastards at work". Reality check - the problem isn't them.
Same goes for many others on here. If you don't have anything meaningful to say and only want to stroke your ego, knock it off. People see right through you.
So it was not possible to come up with a more intelligent word? If you have to explain yourself, it's a sign you should have come up with a much better and concise word.
Seriously, it's people like you and Mr.(?)-Linux-is-tickling-my-clitoris that drives women away from tech.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/
As someone who works in a print shop, I can tell you (as I tell others):
Microsoft's stuff doesn't work with Microsoft's stuff.
Microsoft Word doesn't even work with Microsoft Word (even though their version and ours appear to be the same). Margins, layout, etc. change. Spacing can change even though you use the same font.
Microsoft's idea of print-to or export-to PDF is inconsistent and very buggy. Even if the pdf magically appears to look like it's ok, it may print differently (kerning, spacing, measurements are off (this is a really bad one), backgrounds or colours may be non-existent).
Lastly, (which is a bit of a different issue): Word is not a freaking design program.
I use it to market myself. Post cool & scientific things in your feeds, talk about geeky things in your status, and all of a sudden you look a lot smarter than you really are
If you specifically use it with networking in mind, it's really useful.
I'm always amazed how "preserving culture" means staying the same as years ago, in a monolithic state. Culture naturally evolves. The surroundings are always changing. People are free to continue certain traditions, if they like. Nothing is stopping them.
Internet tax because we assume every Canadian household has the potential to view a Canadian site and will view it with others in the room thereby denoting it a public performance?
Don't laugh. It's actually *so* not funny.