Wouldn't it make sense to keep an extra Orbiter in space, docked to the ISS? That way, if some problem was discovered once in orbit, they'd have a way to get back down while crews in the ISS effect repairs.
GO Transit in Ontario, Canada, has implemented a similar system on its Richmond Hill line, as a test.
GO uses a Proof of Payment system -- you buy your tickets, and then "cancel" one ride off a multi-ride ticket before you get on the train, and you have to prove to the inspector, if she checks, that you have purchased and cancelled your tickets.
The Smart Card system that GO uses is great -- it can store up to 255 pre-paid rides and 2 monthly passes (ie, one for this month and one for next month). To cancel your ride, you don't even need to take it out of you wallet -- just hold the wallet up to the card reader. The machines work far faster and with much less downtime than the old style of "punching your tickets" ride cancellers. Even providing proof of payment is as simple as letting the inspector scan your card with a handheld card reader.
It's a great system and I hope they replace the old system on the other lines soon.
1) Qualified (i.e. not test taking wonders) MCSE can physically manage about 14 MS Servers...
Well, I'm certainly not qualified to do anything (no MCSE, no university degree, just finishing off a college diploma, but 8 years as a professional software developer). Maybe this explains why I have no problem managing our network of 60+ Windows 2000 servers. On top of my "real job" which is software design and architecture, programming, team lead, etc.
Believe me, anybody can admin a whole hell of a lot more Windows 2000 machines if they move all their machines to a data centre. "I'm too lazy to go to the data centre just to do one little thing" is a great motivator to learn how to remotely administer your machines, automate things well, and actually learn about the OS that you're trying to administer.
Coming from a UNIX background doesn't hurt either. You'd be surprised at how much you can actually do to administer Windows boxes properly if you're already thinking in an "automating" mindset.
Actually, no, they didn't. n-dimensional universes -- if they are compact -- are shaped like n-tori, not n-spheres. The question is quether they have genus one (and are thus flat) or have genus 2+ (are have negative curvature.)
DirecTV won't sell me their service because of where I live. It is impossible for me to pay DirecTV. It doesn't cost them one thin dime if I steal their service, as they *will not allow me* to give them money. So why shouldn't I decrypt the information? Why should people go to jail if they help me decrypt the information?
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Well, aren't you special. You must feel important after having told everyone that.
Seriously, why is it that whenever the discussion turns around to something that's fun and that people like to do (watching sports, television, going to the mall, whatever.) there's always some guy who wants everyone to know how "cool" and "trendy" he is, and makes sure to point out to everyone how much they dislike that activity? If you don't like to watch football, just don't watch it. Why search for validation from your fellow geeks?
With a "short sale" you can borrow stock that you don't own, sell it, then later on, after the value has fallen, buy it, and give it back to its owner. Think of borrowing your neighbour's lawnmower in April when lawnmowers are expensive. Sell it for $200. Then in November when lawnmowers are cheap, buy a lawnmower on clearance for $100 and give it back to your neighbour.
Options (a put option is one of two kinds of option) are a bit different in that you don't actually buy any stock. You only buy *the right* to buy (call options) or sell (put options) the stock at a given price.
What's the difference?
Well, for options, you have a limited risk (it's impossible to lose more money than you put in -- the worst that can happen is that your options become worthless and you throw them away). But with a short sale, the risk is potentially limitless, since it's possible for the stock price to be infinitely high when you have to buy them back and repay the lender.
In case you happen to be using DirecTV, which of course is impossible since DirecTV isn't offered for sale in Canada, and you've bought a TiVo, which of course is impossible since TiVo isn't offered for sale in Canada, you can just hook up the Tivo, tell it your Canadian area code, give a US Zip code that DirecTV services, and it will find a local Canadian number to download the DirecTV guide data from.
Or so I've heard. Because I certainly don't use DirecTV and TiVo up here, no siree.
Jeez, they all must have been following me around the entire 8 months I was there, since I could have sworn that there were often that many people within about a square mile of me last time I went.
Absolutely not. I can code a whole hell of a lot better than I can do anything else. At the same time, I understand that just because I happen to be a computer guy, shouldn't somehow make me magically exempt from the rules of society.
Wow! Communicating with others?!
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Boy, what an outrage.
Of all the nerve, to expect computer guys to communicate with other people in the business, to work with them, to adopt the same dress code, and generally become good corporate citizens instead of that grumpy guy sitting over in the corner who won't talk to anyone.
I for one am outraged. I should be able to not be a team player, to dress slovenly, and be totally grumpy and non-communicative with my co-workers, just because my skills are with computers, instead of, say, accounting or HR.
Oh, come on. Next you're going to be saying that anime is usually sex and violence, and is almost always sci-fi.
Doujinshi is just self-published comics. That's all. They're not always, or even usually, "fan comics" (which imply that they are using copyrighted characters), and "risque" doujinshi is certainly not a majority.
Just because the only doujinshi you've ever been exposed to is pictures of Sailor Venus fucking Artemis, doesn't mean that that's all (or even most) of what's out there. This is like saying that the only indie musicians are grunge-rock garage bands.
Seneca College's Faculty of Continuing Education offers a terrific course. It's meant as an elective, but anyone can take the course even if they're not pursuing a diploma. It gives you a great overview of the Canadian legal system, and it's taught by a lawyer who obviously loves the law and its practice, and is very enthusiastic.
I'd recommend the course for anyone living in Toronto.
Sure, but salaries are also quite a bit higher in the USA than in Canada (almost to the point of being the same dollar amount in US dollars as a Canadian would get in Canadian dollars for a similar job). And taxes are lower. Given someone in a similar job to you, the USD $18.95 probably "hurts" them about as much as your CAD $18.95 "hurts" you.
I've always thought that they should have named the Canadian currency the "Zglortblag" or something totally different from "dollar", so people wouldn't compare two totally different currencies just because they happen to have the same name. After all, are things 100 times as expensive in Japan because it takes 100 yen to buy a dollar?
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So just print off a bunch of test pages or something every day. Then you can amortize the printer over several thousand pages per year!
I dunno, I kinda like it when stored procedures, oh, I dunno, can return a recordset!
Wouldn't it make sense to keep an extra Orbiter in space, docked to the ISS? That way, if some problem was discovered once in orbit, they'd have a way to get back down while crews in the ISS effect repairs.
GO Transit in Ontario, Canada, has implemented a similar system on its Richmond Hill line, as a test.
GO uses a Proof of Payment system -- you buy your tickets, and then "cancel" one ride off a multi-ride ticket before you get on the train, and you have to prove to the inspector, if she checks, that you have purchased and cancelled your tickets.
The Smart Card system that GO uses is great -- it can store up to 255 pre-paid rides and 2 monthly passes (ie, one for this month and one for next month). To cancel your ride, you don't even need to take it out of you wallet -- just hold the wallet up to the card reader. The machines work far faster and with much less downtime than the old style of "punching your tickets" ride cancellers. Even providing proof of payment is as simple as letting the inspector scan your card with a handheld card reader.
It's a great system and I hope they replace the old system on the other lines soon.
Well, I'm certainly not qualified to do anything (no MCSE, no university degree, just finishing off a college diploma, but 8 years as a professional software developer). Maybe this explains why I have no problem managing our network of 60+ Windows 2000 servers. On top of my "real job" which is software design and architecture, programming, team lead, etc.
Believe me, anybody can admin a whole hell of a lot more Windows 2000 machines if they move all their machines to a data centre. "I'm too lazy to go to the data centre just to do one little thing" is a great motivator to learn how to remotely administer your machines, automate things well, and actually learn about the OS that you're trying to administer.
Coming from a UNIX background doesn't hurt either. You'd be surprised at how much you can actually do to administer Windows boxes properly if you're already thinking in an "automating" mindset.
Yeah, that's what I thought too.
Wow, only $5500 for a Honda with only 53 km on it?! I'll take it!
Yeah, the United States seems strangely unenthusiastic about people from other countries just moving in, for some reason.
It's still stealing.
Oh, I never said it wasn't. I just don't feel bad about it.
DirecTV won't sell me their service because of where I live. It is impossible for me to pay DirecTV. It doesn't cost them one thin dime if I steal their service, as they *will not allow me* to give them money. So why shouldn't I decrypt the information? Why should people go to jail if they help me decrypt the information?
Well, aren't you special. You must feel important after having told everyone that.
Seriously, why is it that whenever the discussion turns around to something that's fun and that people like to do (watching sports, television, going to the mall, whatever.) there's always some guy who wants everyone to know how "cool" and "trendy" he is, and makes sure to point out to everyone how much they dislike that activity? If you don't like to watch football, just don't watch it. Why search for validation from your fellow geeks?
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When you are a huge corporation, even a day's downtime to restore backups can cost $3m in lost productivity and business opportunities.
Not quite. You've described a short sale.
With a "short sale" you can borrow stock that you don't own, sell it, then later on, after the value has fallen, buy it, and give it back to its owner. Think of borrowing your neighbour's lawnmower in April when lawnmowers are expensive. Sell it for $200. Then in November when lawnmowers are cheap, buy a lawnmower on clearance for $100 and give it back to your neighbour.
Options (a put option is one of two kinds of option) are a bit different in that you don't actually buy any stock. You only buy *the right* to buy (call options) or sell (put options) the stock at a given price.
What's the difference?
Well, for options, you have a limited risk (it's impossible to lose more money than you put in -- the worst that can happen is that your options become worthless and you throw them away). But with a short sale, the risk is potentially limitless, since it's possible for the stock price to be infinitely high when you have to buy them back and repay the lender.
In case you happen to be using DirecTV, which of course is impossible since DirecTV isn't offered for sale in Canada, and you've bought a TiVo, which of course is impossible since TiVo isn't offered for sale in Canada, you can just hook up the Tivo, tell it your Canadian area code, give a US Zip code that DirecTV services, and it will find a local Canadian number to download the DirecTV guide data from.
Or so I've heard. Because I certainly don't use DirecTV and TiVo up here, no siree.
Jeez, they all must have been following me around the entire 8 months I was there, since I could have sworn that there were often that many people within about a square mile of me last time I went.
Did you read the damn article? A lot of it dealt with tech workers being dickheads, not just what clothes they were wearing.
Absolutely not. I can code a whole hell of a lot better than I can do anything else. At the same time, I understand that just because I happen to be a computer guy, shouldn't somehow make me magically exempt from the rules of society.
Boy, what an outrage.
Of all the nerve, to expect computer guys to communicate with other people in the business, to work with them, to adopt the same dress code, and generally become good corporate citizens instead of that grumpy guy sitting over in the corner who won't talk to anyone.
I for one am outraged. I should be able to not be a team player, to dress slovenly, and be totally grumpy and non-communicative with my co-workers, just because my skills are with computers, instead of, say, accounting or HR.
Boy, of all the nerve.
Oh, come on. Next you're going to be saying that anime is usually sex and violence, and is almost always sci-fi.
Doujinshi is just self-published comics. That's all. They're not always, or even usually, "fan comics" (which imply that they are using copyrighted characters), and "risque" doujinshi is certainly not a majority.
Just because the only doujinshi you've ever been exposed to is pictures of Sailor Venus fucking Artemis, doesn't mean that that's all (or even most) of what's out there. This is like saying that the only indie musicians are grunge-rock garage bands.
Oh, come on!
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Rock > Scissors > Paper > Rock
Does this mean that Rock = Scissors = Paper = Rock?
Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Seneca College's Faculty of Continuing Education offers a terrific course. It's meant as an elective, but anyone can take the course even if they're not pursuing a diploma. It gives you a great overview of the Canadian legal system, and it's taught by a lawyer who obviously loves the law and its practice, and is very enthusiastic.
I'd recommend the course for anyone living in Toronto.
The course is _Law and the Citizen_, CAN271.
Sure, but salaries are also quite a bit higher in the USA than in Canada (almost to the point of being the same dollar amount in US dollars as a Canadian would get in Canadian dollars for a similar job). And taxes are lower. Given someone in a similar job to you, the USD $18.95 probably "hurts" them about as much as your CAD $18.95 "hurts" you.
I've always thought that they should have named the Canadian currency the "Zglortblag" or something totally different from "dollar", so people wouldn't compare two totally different currencies just because they happen to have the same name. After all, are things 100 times as expensive in Japan because it takes 100 yen to buy a dollar?
So?
If I write some free game and compile it with Microsoft Visual C++, should I call it MICROSOFT/FunGame?
Not while this story is on the front page of Slashdot, they won't.
Sane people never do Japan in August. I did it once. That was enough for me. From now on it's March or November!