Interesting - the ultimate Video Conferencing system. At more than half a million per room, and $18,000 per month you would have to save one hell of a lot of plane travel to fixed locations in order to pay for it. But apparently some large corporations with travel between multiple company sites have found it worthwhile. I can't help but wonder if you could not get comparable results less expensively.
Wesley: And how does your kind define love? Demon: Same as all bodies. Same as everywheres. Love is sacrifice.
'The Girl in Question'
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Typo Boy - Dec 13, 2005 2:05:49 pm PST #5979 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
NoiseDesign - Dec 13, 2005 2:51:22 pm PST #5980 of 10003
Our wings are not tired
It's not the plane fare that's the killer cost wise though. It's the lost productivity from high paid folks who have to travel a lot. If someone is getting paid in the mid to high six figures and is travelling 3 days out of 5, then they are only getting maybe 50% productivity out of that person for the money.
DCJensen - Dec 13, 2005 3:31:54 pm PST #5981 of 10003
All is well that ends in pizza.
I'm trying to figure out what model my old laptop (which lives in another time zone) is.
I know it's a Dell from 1999. Anybody have any ideas of sites where I could find a history of the Inspiron line or somesuch?
You might be able to use "Find my service tag" option from here: [link]
ETA: Whoops. I needed to suss out the "I don't have it" part of that.
§ ita § - Dec 14, 2005 4:38:04 am PST #5982 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm becoming completely addicted to online digital painting tutorials, and thought I'd share this one for anyone that's interested -- it covers different ground from most of the "Now that you've scanned in your sketch, let's colour!" ones.
DXMachina - Dec 14, 2005 5:00:29 am PST #5983 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Linus Torvalds decides to stir the Linux GUI pot a little... [link]
I personally just encourage people to switch to KDE.
This "users are idiots, and are confused by functionality" mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it. I don't use Gnome, because in striving to be simple, it has long since reached the point where it simply doesn't do what I need it to do.
Please, just tell people to use KDE.
Gudanov - Dec 14, 2005 5:16:31 am PST #5984 of 10003
Coding and Sleeping
I have sort of warmed up to KDE now that I've used it a bit and found that pretty much everything can be customized.
Kristen - Dec 14, 2005 9:12:41 pm PST #5985 of 10003
There's one out there that lets you control some of the iPod functions with the deck controls (FF, RW, I think).
FYI - I bought this the other day because I stupidly slammed my Monster adapter in the car door. I am not pleased with it. I think it'll end up with FM transmitters in the glove compartment.
§ ita § - Dec 15, 2005 4:02:58 am PST #5986 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What are the cons of it?
§ ita § - Dec 15, 2005 8:58:27 am PST #5987 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I need some regular expression help. My brain is a sieve when it comes to them?
How do I make part of a pattern an optional match? I'm dealing with something like this:
"%(^|\\s)mandatory textoptional text%me"
Tom Scola - Dec 15, 2005 9:02:12 am PST #5988 of 10003
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
It's probably
"(^|\\s)mandatory text(optional text)?"