officemonkey

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by officemonkey 16y ago
If only businesses were as simple to manage as leasing physical storage space. It's not just City versus Company. Your employees are a factor in this, and employee decisions are based on lots of different variables. Employees are the most p
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by officemonkey 16y ago
>Of course, no real city has the authority to have a military. To be fair, Singapore does have a Ministry of Defence and an Army.
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by officemonkey 16y ago
You may want to give it a shot now. I'm translating one of my favorite Jules Verne novels from French to English using vim and google translate ( http://voyagesextraordinaires.tumblr.com/ if anyone cares). The machine does a fairly crap tr
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by officemonkey 16y ago
It wasn't "free". We bought a "lifetime" package. I don't recall the details, but I ponied up a couple hundred dollars at a time when we didn't know textdrive was going to make it. I don't expect a lot of support, but I do expect uptime and
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by officemonkey 16y ago
>And this has been quite a good deal for you. The logic of moving from something that costs you nothing to something that does costs you something is interesting. Downtime costs him. So much so that he's willing to pay for uptime. Also,
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by officemonkey 16y ago
I've got a lifetime account on davie.textdrive.com and I've been waiting for my "golden ticket" for a couple years now. I never got any decent communication from joyent and everything still works, so I was disinclined to make trouble for my
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by officemonkey 16y ago
But the iPad _isn't_ a better book reader. Electronic paper reads much better in sunlight. I did a side-by-side comparison with the iPad and the Kindle and I much preferred to read on the Kindle.
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by officemonkey 16y ago
Since they're partnered with "Starz Play", Netflix gets a quite a few new pretty quickly. BTW, most Amazon streaming titles are something you'd find on VHS in your mom's basement. I just checked and the first movie they tempted me with was
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by officemonkey 16y ago
It's not an ultimate blow. They're two different platforms. It is an ultimate blow for all of the other book readers (Nook, Sony's readers). Amazon is in iPod territory here: their readers are better and cheaper than the competition and lik
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by officemonkey 16y ago
For public domain content, Project Gutenberg has become my first stop. When they started, they were just txt and html files, but now they're re now serving up editions for all the major eReaders.
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by officemonkey 16y ago
The best job I ever had (schedule-wise) was when I worked 30 hours/week at home. My normal day would be: get up at six and start work answering emails. Around eight I'd rustle up a quick breakfast and eat it at my desk while I started makin
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So easy that a decent text editor can do the job.