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Comment Re:Yet another "modern" FS without undelete... (Score 1) 241

If you're using a command-line and 'rm' stuff though, that's entirely your fault for using such a low-level power-user interface for file management.

No, it's not. 'rm' is by no means a "low-level power-user interface." That doesn't even make sense. While it is arguably for "power-users," it is not anyone's fault for using this high-level userspace tool for file management. The perception that it is low-level annoys me.

Comment Re:Editor of choice in academia? (Score 1) 674

First, I'd like to note that you have no idea what you're talking about.

The journals I've published in would accept .doc, .pdf, .docx, and a variety of other formats (.doc generally pretty strongly preferred), with .tif images for plots, but I can't recall if I've even seen TeX listed as an acceptable format for submission.

(La)TeX generates PDFs.

I've only ever encountered one person who used TeX, and that was a summer student (Physics major) at the lab who used it essentially as a form of rebellion because no one else did: he just wanted to be different.

I highly doubt that this is a fair characterization of his reasons for using TeX.

Comment Re:Low (Score 2, Insightful) 674

This is the same kind of crap that stops people from using command-line interfaces.

You have the misconception that it is something scary with no understanding of it at all. Word, InDesign, and others have a learning curve too. You were forced to learn Word, you were not forced to learn LaTeX, and so you perceive things that are not like Word to be scary and incomprehensible.

Communications

Submission + - 25 Years of the Emoticon (cmu.edu)

raylu writes: The Emoticon will be 25 years old this September. From the Carnegie Mellon article,

"It has been fascinating to watch this phenomenon grow from a little message I tossed off in ten minutes to something that has spread all around the world," said Fahlman [the creator of the smiley].


In the more humorous NYTimes article,

More than once, Alexis Feldman, the director of the Feldman Realty Group, a commercial real estate company in Manhattan, has been moving forward on a major deal when, she said, "at the 23rd hour, I get an e-mail from the broker saying, 'Sorry, my client is not interested in the space, too bad we couldn't make the big bucks' — then there's a frown face!"


The original thread and some others are reproduced here.

Businesses

Submission + - Dell begins their largest layoff ever. 3

cyphercell writes: Dell has begun their largest series of layoffs ever. This morning at about 10:00am more than two hundred employees at Dell's Roseburg Oregon Call center found out that they no longer had jobs. Sparking what appears to be the beginning of year long run of layoffs for the company. http://www.newsreview.info/article/20070802/NEWS/7 0802014

Refuting local suspicions of malice Dell spokesman David Frink states:

... the closure has nothing to do with a lawsuit filed by employees of the Roseburg center in February, claiming Dell violated federal and state wage and hour laws.
http://www.newsreview.info/article/20070213/NEWS/7 0213020

and later says

...plans to reduce employment worldwide by 10 percent at the end of May.


Their plans to reduce employment can be found here:
http://www.statesman.com/business/content/business /stories/technology/06/01/1dell.html

Here are some highlights:

Dell set to shed 8,800 workers...

Dell has 82,200 permanent workers, including 18,000 in Central Texas, and 5,300 temporary workers worldwide. The layoffs are expected to affect both groups...

In its last large-scale layoffs, Dell cut more than 5,000 jobs in Austin after the high-tech bust in 2001.

...many of the layoffs could come in Central Texas, where Dell is headquartered. In a March 29 report to clients, Goldman Sachs analysts said Dell might reduce the work force at its test and assembly facilities in the U.S. and Malaysia.

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