The new design isn't totally horrible, but I think it's somewhat worse than the current design. It wastes far too much space and the right-hand bar with polls, etc. is too wide. It almost overwhelms the story content.
Wow, things are different in Canada. In most cases, we're required to give reasonable notice and severance when letting someone go. Even when I've gotten rid of people right away, I've always given them at least two weeks' severance. IMO, it's a smart business decision because it reduces the likelihood of vengeful lawsuits or worse.
I own a company and I always put in the employment agreement a requirement of 15 days' notice if the employee wishes to leave, and 15 days' notice if I wish to terminate the employee without cause (with an option to simply pay the employee without requiring him/her to show up for work.)
If a really unhappy employee wanted to leave right away, I'd consider waiving the requirement, but I put it in as protection for me so I'm not scrambling to replace a valuable employee with no notice.
You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! (Julius Caesar)
'Zounds, sir, you're robb'd; for shame, put on
your gown;
Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul;
Even now, now, very now, an old black ram
Is topping your white ewe. Arise, arise;
Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,
Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you:
Arise, I say. (Othello)
Who TF needs a course to learn MS Office? I mean really? My kids sat down in front of LibreOffice and learned it on their own. I'm convinced they could do the same with MS Office if our house were not a M$FT-free zone.
If your kid can't learn an office suite on his/her own (at least to the level of a casual user) then that kid has bigger problems than not getting the right subjects in school.
Bull. Islam is a warlike religion that uses threats of (and actual) violence to keep its followers in line and convert non-believers. Islam is an imperialist expansionist violent philosophy.
On the one hand, I don't think people's art should be boycotted because of the artist's personal views. On the other hand, I would hate to see money I've paid to see the art going (in part) to support a cause I oppose.
I won't see the movie because I'm not an Orson Scott Card fan. However, if I were, I would also donate the price of the admission to a marriage equality organization. In this way, I would in some small measure be counteracting any damage that the price of my movie ticket might do.
I think positive support for organizations that promote gay marriage is more productive than boycotting Card's work.
I know it's fashionable to give Firefox a hard time, but it's still my default browser after all these years. I use Firefox about 85% of the time and Google Chrome about 15%. Speed seems comparable, but overall the Firefox UI is still better for me.
Carriers don't need to unlock phones for free. The policy says "unlock the device, or give the customer the means to unlock the device, upon request, at the rate specified by the service provider"
So all service providers need to do is specify that their unlocking rate is $1000 per device.:(
I agree that no laws should be passed that force e.g. a supermarket to use specific weights or measures.
Why not? Supermarkets are already heavily regulated wrt the accuracy of their measuring tools. I think legislation requiring metric units would be fine; you could leave it up to each supermarket whether or not they wanted to augment that with approximate imperial measurements.
L/100km measures fuel consumption. The lower the consumption, the better. Also, you don't end up dividing by zero for electric cars and bikes. 0 L/100km is easier to handle than infinity MPG.
And the reason you choose "L" and "100km" is to make the numbers relatively close to 1 for typical fuel consumption of modern cars.
Fahrenheit is quite useful when you are thinking in terms of human comfort and safety.
Really? Maybe it's because I grew up with only the metric system, but I have absolutely no feeling for fahrenheit. I know that 20 Celsius is a nice summer day, 15 is cool, and -30 is about as cold as it gets where I live. I wouldn't have a clue what "80" or "60" or "20" means in Fahrenheit.
It's all a matter of what you're used to. The US is one of the most conservative and reactionary societies on earth, so I expect it'll still be using Imperial units 50 years from now and probably still retain the penny when you need ten thousand of them to buy a loaf of bread.
... with hearts and flowers so two-year-old girls can prevent themselves from being shot by their five-year-old brothers. After all, if that two-year-old who was killed recently had had a gun for self-defense, the story would have turned out much "happier".
One thing I don't understand about these things: If an adversary can intercept your email, he/she can intercept the email asking for registration and create a password.
Without an out-of-band way to register, I fail to see how these things add security.
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The new design isn't totally horrible, but I think it's somewhat worse than the current design. It wastes far too much space and the right-hand bar with polls, etc. is too wide. It almost overwhelms the story content.
This is a real WTF. Anyone who takes away middle-click to paste gets a new middle from me: My middle finger.
Because the undercover air marshal will be the only one not fooling around with electronic gizmos during takeoff. :)
Possibly the pilot, too.
Mukerjee should sue. I hope he is an American citizen; otherwise, he has no chance of getting justice rather than simply a minuscule chance.
Wow, things are different in Canada. In most cases, we're required to give reasonable notice and severance when letting someone go. Even when I've gotten rid of people right away, I've always given them at least two weeks' severance. IMO, it's a smart business decision because it reduces the likelihood of vengeful lawsuits or worse.
I own a company and I always put in the employment agreement a requirement of 15 days' notice if the employee wishes to leave, and 15 days' notice if I wish to terminate the employee without cause (with an option to simply pay the employee without requiring him/her to show up for work.)
If a really unhappy employee wanted to leave right away, I'd consider waiving the requirement, but I put it in as protection for me so I'm not scrambling to replace a valuable employee with no notice.
You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! (Julius Caesar)
'Zounds, sir, you're robb'd; for shame, put on your gown; Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul; Even now, now, very now, an old black ram Is topping your white ewe. Arise, arise; Awake the snorting citizens with the bell, Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you: Arise, I say. (Othello)
What could possibly go wrong? :)
+1 to that. We use a simlar stack:
Debian GNU/Linux
PostgreSQL
Asterisk
SugarCRM
LedgerSMB
LibreOffice
Perl
PHP
Dovecot
Sendmail
GCC
Total licensing cost is $0.
Electronic voting is not secure and can never be made secure.
I won't rehash all my arguments here; if you're interested read the "dskoll" comments on this LWN article.
Who TF needs a course to learn MS Office? I mean really? My kids sat down in front of LibreOffice and learned it on their own. I'm convinced they could do the same with MS Office if our house were not a M$FT-free zone.
If your kid can't learn an office suite on his/her own (at least to the level of a casual user) then that kid has bigger problems than not getting the right subjects in school.
Bull. Islam is a warlike religion that uses threats of (and actual) violence to keep its followers in line and convert non-believers. Islam is an imperialist expansionist violent philosophy.
The idea that somebody is going to walk down to their mailbox in Buffalo, New York, in the winter snow to get their mail is just crazy.
Call us crazy, but lots of people in Canada have been doing that for years. Oh wait, this is the US, right?
The idea that somebody is going to drive down to their mailbox in Buffalo, New York, in the winter snow to get their mail is just crazy.
FTFY.
On the one hand, I don't think people's art should be boycotted because of the artist's personal views. On the other hand, I would hate to see money I've paid to see the art going (in part) to support a cause I oppose.
I won't see the movie because I'm not an Orson Scott Card fan. However, if I were, I would also donate the price of the admission to a marriage equality organization. In this way, I would in some small measure be counteracting any damage that the price of my movie ticket might do.
I think positive support for organizations that promote gay marriage is more productive than boycotting Card's work.
Ugh. I can't believe I wrote "your" instead of "you're".
Oh, the shame....
... apparently means "Brilliant!" if your a marketer....
So all the mutter about a Salesforce / PostgreSQL linkup was just to scare Oracle into being nicer? I guess it worked.
I know it's fashionable to give Firefox a hard time, but it's still my default browser after all these years. I use Firefox about 85% of the time and Google Chrome about 15%. Speed seems comparable, but overall the Firefox UI is still better for me.
Thank you, Mozilla developers.
I am shocked that a country that forbids women to drive, kills young girls for fear they may be dressed immodestly, bans Barbie dolls and amputates the hands of thieves would stoop to such barbaric behaviour!
I wonder why the IDF is doing this? Are they completely tone-deaf to public opinion?
I support Israel, but sometimes their PR blunders make we wonder what exactly they are thinking....
Carriers don't need to unlock phones for free. The policy says "unlock the device, or give the customer the means to unlock the device, upon request, at the rate specified by the service provider"
So all service providers need to do is specify that their unlocking rate is $1000 per device. :(
I agree that no laws should be passed that force e.g. a supermarket to use specific weights or measures.
Why not? Supermarkets are already heavily regulated wrt the accuracy of their measuring tools. I think legislation requiring metric units would be fine; you could leave it up to each supermarket whether or not they wanted to augment that with approximate imperial measurements.
L/100km measures fuel consumption. The lower the consumption, the better. Also, you don't end up dividing by zero for electric cars and bikes. 0 L/100km is easier to handle than infinity MPG.
And the reason you choose "L" and "100km" is to make the numbers relatively close to 1 for typical fuel consumption of modern cars.
Fahrenheit is quite useful when you are thinking in terms of human comfort and safety.
Really? Maybe it's because I grew up with only the metric system, but I have absolutely no feeling for fahrenheit. I know that 20 Celsius is a nice summer day, 15 is cool, and -30 is about as cold as it gets where I live. I wouldn't have a clue what "80" or "60" or "20" means in Fahrenheit.
It's all a matter of what you're used to. The US is one of the most conservative and reactionary societies on earth, so I expect it'll still be using Imperial units 50 years from now and probably still retain the penny when you need ten thousand of them to buy a loaf of bread.
... with hearts and flowers so two-year-old girls can prevent themselves from being shot by their five-year-old brothers. After all, if that two-year-old who was killed recently had had a gun for self-defense, the story would have turned out much "happier".
One thing I don't understand about these things: If an adversary can intercept your email, he/she can intercept the email asking for registration and create a password.
Without an out-of-band way to register, I fail to see how these things add security.