Same here, I was just on Gmail 5 minutes ago. Funny how our Postfix server at work hasn't had any unplanned downtime in over three years, and my personal Exchange playbox hasn't had any self-induced downtime either. You really think Google could...you know...have a backup? Especially for paid customers. Just another reason for us to stay on our own server.
Logic. Specifically, journalistic logic. An accurate title would be boring, so logically you create a title that is more interesting and is also based on words found in the article. Duh.
It's free, not convenient, it's not like the users are paying for it.
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8 in MP3 Songs (See Bestsellers in MP3 Songs)
Popular in these categories: (What's this?)
#1 in MP3 Songs > Dance & DJ
#5 in MP3 Songs > Pop
We have a customer service department of about 20 people, and they each receive a lot of different vector art from customers all day long. We don't have a lot of control over what they send us...if we can't open the file, it's out fault, because it works on their computer...we must be idiots. I have had many headaches because of this...we're on the supplier end of the promotional products industry...branded pens, shirts, coffe mugs and more. Basically an industry composed almost entirely of marketing/sales people. Anyone who has worked IT supporting sales staff surely understands the mental capacity of these people. Or lack thereof.
unless some crazy breakthrough in physics occurs that results in easy and safe departure from the earths surface
I think that is pretty much the key right there. It takes a tremendous amount of energy, calculation, and resources to life a tiny payload into space. We should be devoting more resources on cheaper and more economical ways to get into orbit...ie space elevators, assisted launch, etc. That makes it much easier to estabilsh space stations and you could construct spacecraft that rely on nuclear-based propulsion and launch them from these stations.
And then you start colonies in space and on the moon, and eventually there is war between the colony inhabitants and Earth, and we build giant robots and let psychic 16-year-old kids pilot them and beat the crap out of eachother and save humanity from itself in the process. Until of course the remnants of the defeated faction finish rebuilding in the asteroid belt and come back to kick all our asses. But such is life. For anime characters living in space, anyway.
Inkscape can have a LOT of issues aith AI and even many EPS files. We have a lot of people who need to view artwork from customers where I work and I tried like hell to get rid of Illustrator...but we had a majority of files that wouldn't work with it.
Other than that, it's a great vector art program.
And if I was doing something wrong witrh Inkscape, please tell me, I would love to give Adobe the boot.
I'm not really joking. It's not the internet, but I'd pretty much always, at any time, rather be playing video games. Not any particular one, I'm not a WoW addict. Just anything from TF2, to Fallout 3, Supremem Commander, etc. I'll be out at a bar with friends, counting the minutes until I leave so I can go home and put arrows through Scouts' heads in TF2 instead. I find 'normal life' immensely dull and boring. The only reason I go out is to keep up appearances and not look like as big of a loser as I really am.
Asset tags systems work well for this. It's what we use. Easy for RA requests too..just ask the user to read their asset tag number (if you don't have it memorized because it's the 5,689th time this dumbfuck has called you asking how to move a file from one folder to another.) and you can punch it in and connect.
You don't need AI to deal with scammers...these guys are overwhelmingly clueless. They're only a little bit smarter than the poor dumb saps who fall for their scams (If you think the intro e-mail is hokey, just wait until they start sending their fake IDs and lame excuses). Horribly fake websites work just fine. They have this one called M7CN S3cur3 (leet used to obfusicate the name in the rare chance a smart scammer uses google to find this). A MTCN is a Money Transfer Control Number...the identification number Western Union uses for money orders...it's 10 digits.
Basically the site is an array of 50x50 form buttons. It tells you which row and column to click on, slowly revealing the number with the empty space in the array...well the first 7 digits, the rest are sent to him by the 'support' team of the website, which is you:-) The rows and columns are not labeled, and if you miss one, it resets them all:-) Takes something like 250 boxes to reveal it correctly.
And you can use a fake transfer form generator to make it look like they really have to do it...I got one of them to click around 450 boxes:-) (he had been relatively polite up until that point, left me some choice words in voicemail for that.) Wasted a good couple hours of his time, and probably some money to an internet cafe.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg...they have different baiting techniques, depending on what you want to get your 'lad' to do. Some of them get them to go on 'safaris', which means causing them to travel 200+ miles or cross a country border (typically confirmed by e-mail header IP address).
Yeah I did that for a while, it's a blast...I have several voice recordings of VERY pissed off east Africans:-) Never went for trophy pics or anything though. I highly recommend the Slashdot crowd checks it out...they 419eater crew runs a clean shop, they're very stringent on scambaiting for de-education of the scammers and making sure to not provide them any materials (fake IDs, etc) that could be used on real victims. They have a lot of neat tools to make the process easier and generally waste scammer time.
Actually I'm on the opposite side of the state...about 15 minutes from Indiana.
And if you're paying $12 shipping for single components, you're ordering from the wrong place...a lot of the electronics component places I have shopped with online will send small orders via first class mail. I don't do nearly enough DIY stuff to make a local store a major convenience like that.
I live in a town of 10k people. That's the only place to go. It has a Gamestop, UPS Store, and some crappy clothing store. It might technically be called a strip mall, whatever. Anything bigger is an hour drive away, and I usually just order from the internet at that point.
And no, I don't live in Montana or Wyoming or something. This is actually Ohio.
Other than having no local stores with anything decent, it's pretty nice for geeks like me who'd rather spend their weekends indoors playing PC games. Quiet, low cost of living, I've got a good job, and the local telco has fiber run to my house that's fast and reliable, and their service is great (it doesn't hurt that the operations manager is my dad's weekend drinking buddy). With all the Comcast and Time Warner horror stories, I'm afraid to move anyplace where I can't say I love my ISP. (TWC is around here, but in the parts where the local telco has their fiber with IPTV, Time Warner marketshare is 20% or less...prople drop them like a bad habit as soon as they can.)
My local 'Shack' hasn't sold real electronics for years now. I've gone there 4 times over the past two years. Once they had something that kinda worked. The other two times I eneded up finding it at Wal-Mart. I'm really not sure why I bother, except that they are in the same minimall as Wal-Mart.
This line made me chuckle:
"Where will we go to buy soldering irons and those RCA to headphone jack adapters now?"
Mine doesn't carry soldering irons, and they might have a place on the shelf for the adapters, but I'd be shocked if they have any stock. It's really quite sad. They wonder why they are going out of business...it's because they've changed their competition from Ace Hardware to Best Buy. And competing with Best Buy is always a good idea, isn't that right Circuit City and CompUSA?
A year from now, I predict 'The Shack' will be liquidating assets under Chapter 11. Anyone wanna take that bet? It would be smarter than buying Radio Shack stock.
Yeah, it gives them incentive to trim unnecessary crap from the budget. Although there is such a thing as going too extreme, I'd rather my state be selling off it's capitol buildings than paying 10 people to 'supervise' 3 guys fixing a culvert under the road.
"I have a friend who lives near several farms. He and his wife are both dying of cancer. The health department checked their well water and found it with high levels of farm pesticides. THAT is the cost of conventional farming in addition to the pesticide residue that you consume each time you eat conventionally grown produce."
My guess is they live near large, improperly drained livestock farms. Pesticides and herbicides will runoff into waterways, not in to wells. My entire family farms, everyone in my area farms, everyone in my area uses wells for water. Out of my ~20 immediate family, only one had cancer, and that was my grandmother with breast cancer. I could pull the rates, but I would about guarantee you our cancer rates are average.
Our existing aircraft are hold overs from the Cold War much more than the F-22 is. The F-22 program was conceived toward the end of the Cold War and recieved some adaptations for more multipurpose roles throughout its development. (Although it is still primarly an air superiority designed to take out other advanced aircraft). But really whether or not it's a Cold War holdover is irrelevant.
You also have to consider effectiveness. How many more cheaper aircraft would we lose? More importantly the pilots? And there is the capability advantage that quite simply allows you to do things impossible with other aircraft.
Think back to the first Gulf War, the initial tank battle. Iraq had a ton of tanks. And they got obliterated. We lost like one tank to enemy fire. The big reason was, our Abrahms tanks could shoot much further than the Iraqi tanks, while moving, and very accurately. It was ~15-20 years newer than the Iraqi models.
The F-22 is very similar to that...it can engage enemy aircraft from a much further range, along with stealth and maneuverability advantages. Now we have a lot more planes than anyone else unlike the similar tank numbers, so yes, we would win by sheer numbers alone. But if China or North Korea goes apeshit some day and launches tons of fighter-bombers at Alaska or something, isn't it reassuring that we could take them out with very few, if any casualties, as opposed to using equivalent tech aircraft and losing dozens of them along with the pilots?
Keep in mind, I agree with cutting the program...we have enough F-22's and those suckers are expensive. My point is just that I think you are underestimating how important they are.
You're absolutely correct, but that's rather difficult to put a long-term figure on, and even then it would only be an estimate.
My biggest beef was the way the article was worded, it would make someone think it would cost us $339M to roll another one off the assembly line, which is not true because we already paid the $200M R&D cost.
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Is this Slashdot? or slash something else, followed by another slash...I am confused....
Same here, I was just on Gmail 5 minutes ago. Funny how our Postfix server at work hasn't had any unplanned downtime in over three years, and my personal Exchange playbox hasn't had any self-induced downtime either. You really think Google could...you know...have a backup? Especially for paid customers. Just another reason for us to stay on our own server.
Logic. Specifically, journalistic logic. An accurate title would be boring, so logically you create a title that is more interesting and is also based on words found in the article. Duh.
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8 in MP3 Songs (See Bestsellers in MP3 Songs)
Popular in these categories: (What's this?)
#1 in MP3 Songs > Dance & DJ
#5 in MP3 Songs > Pop
Oh shi-
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We have a customer service department of about 20 people, and they each receive a lot of different vector art from customers all day long. We don't have a lot of control over what they send us...if we can't open the file, it's out fault, because it works on their computer...we must be idiots. I have had many headaches because of this...we're on the supplier end of the promotional products industry...branded pens, shirts, coffe mugs and more. Basically an industry composed almost entirely of marketing/sales people. Anyone who has worked IT supporting sales staff surely understands the mental capacity of these people. Or lack thereof.
Yeah I got a kick out of how Tink's iMac turned into a plain old LCD with a Vista sticker slapped on it in Season 2...it made me chuckle.
And seriously MS, those LCDs are dull....why not get a nice shiny Samsung or something if you're trying to flash that Vista orb?
unless some crazy breakthrough in physics occurs that results in easy and safe departure from the earths surface
I think that is pretty much the key right there. It takes a tremendous amount of energy, calculation, and resources to life a tiny payload into space. We should be devoting more resources on cheaper and more economical ways to get into orbit...ie space elevators, assisted launch, etc. That makes it much easier to estabilsh space stations and you could construct spacecraft that rely on nuclear-based propulsion and launch them from these stations.
And then you start colonies in space and on the moon, and eventually there is war between the colony inhabitants and Earth, and we build giant robots and let psychic 16-year-old kids pilot them and beat the crap out of eachother and save humanity from itself in the process. Until of course the remnants of the defeated faction finish rebuilding in the asteroid belt and come back to kick all our asses. But such is life. For anime characters living in space, anyway.
Inkscape can have a LOT of issues aith AI and even many EPS files. We have a lot of people who need to view artwork from customers where I work and I tried like hell to get rid of Illustrator...but we had a majority of files that wouldn't work with it.
Other than that, it's a great vector art program.
And if I was doing something wrong witrh Inkscape, please tell me, I would love to give Adobe the boot.
I'm not really joking. It's not the internet, but I'd pretty much always, at any time, rather be playing video games. Not any particular one, I'm not a WoW addict. Just anything from TF2, to Fallout 3, Supremem Commander, etc. I'll be out at a bar with friends, counting the minutes until I leave so I can go home and put arrows through Scouts' heads in TF2 instead. I find 'normal life' immensely dull and boring. The only reason I go out is to keep up appearances and not look like as big of a loser as I really am.
Who got it from the Germans after WWII.
I'm not addicted. I just find everything else in life less entertaining.
I see what you did there.
Asset tags systems work well for this. It's what we use. Easy for RA requests too..just ask the user to read their asset tag number (if you don't have it memorized because it's the 5,689th time this dumbfuck has called you asking how to move a file from one folder to another.) and you can punch it in and connect.
It's times like this I wished I watched sports so I could boycott them. Oh well, guess I will continue not caring.
You don't need AI to deal with scammers...these guys are overwhelmingly clueless. They're only a little bit smarter than the poor dumb saps who fall for their scams (If you think the intro e-mail is hokey, just wait until they start sending their fake IDs and lame excuses). Horribly fake websites work just fine. They have this one called M7CN S3cur3 (leet used to obfusicate the name in the rare chance a smart scammer uses google to find this). A MTCN is a Money Transfer Control Number...the identification number Western Union uses for money orders...it's 10 digits.
Basically the site is an array of 50x50 form buttons. It tells you which row and column to click on, slowly revealing the number with the empty space in the array...well the first 7 digits, the rest are sent to him by the 'support' team of the website, which is you :-) The rows and columns are not labeled, and if you miss one, it resets them all :-) Takes something like 250 boxes to reveal it correctly.
And you can use a fake transfer form generator to make it look like they really have to do it...I got one of them to click around 450 boxes :-) (he had been relatively polite up until that point, left me some choice words in voicemail for that.) Wasted a good couple hours of his time, and probably some money to an internet cafe.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg...they have different baiting techniques, depending on what you want to get your 'lad' to do. Some of them get them to go on 'safaris', which means causing them to travel 200+ miles or cross a country border (typically confirmed by e-mail header IP address).
Yeah I did that for a while, it's a blast...I have several voice recordings of VERY pissed off east Africans :-) Never went for trophy pics or anything though. I highly recommend the Slashdot crowd checks it out...they 419eater crew runs a clean shop, they're very stringent on scambaiting for de-education of the scammers and making sure to not provide them any materials (fake IDs, etc) that could be used on real victims. They have a lot of neat tools to make the process easier and generally waste scammer time.
I think it's time to dust off the 'kdawsonfud' tag!
Actually I'm on the opposite side of the state...about 15 minutes from Indiana.
And if you're paying $12 shipping for single components, you're ordering from the wrong place...a lot of the electronics component places I have shopped with online will send small orders via first class mail. I don't do nearly enough DIY stuff to make a local store a major convenience like that.
And hundreds, if not thousands, of violent crime offenders go without jail time every week. I love a functining legal system.
I live in a town of 10k people. That's the only place to go. It has a Gamestop, UPS Store, and some crappy clothing store. It might technically be called a strip mall, whatever. Anything bigger is an hour drive away, and I usually just order from the internet at that point.
And no, I don't live in Montana or Wyoming or something. This is actually Ohio.
Other than having no local stores with anything decent, it's pretty nice for geeks like me who'd rather spend their weekends indoors playing PC games. Quiet, low cost of living, I've got a good job, and the local telco has fiber run to my house that's fast and reliable, and their service is great (it doesn't hurt that the operations manager is my dad's weekend drinking buddy). With all the Comcast and Time Warner horror stories, I'm afraid to move anyplace where I can't say I love my ISP. (TWC is around here, but in the parts where the local telco has their fiber with IPTV, Time Warner marketshare is 20% or less...prople drop them like a bad habit as soon as they can.)
My local 'Shack' hasn't sold real electronics for years now. I've gone there 4 times over the past two years. Once they had something that kinda worked. The other two times I eneded up finding it at Wal-Mart. I'm really not sure why I bother, except that they are in the same minimall as Wal-Mart.
This line made me chuckle:
"Where will we go to buy soldering irons and those RCA to headphone jack adapters now?"
Mine doesn't carry soldering irons, and they might have a place on the shelf for the adapters, but I'd be shocked if they have any stock. It's really quite sad. They wonder why they are going out of business...it's because they've changed their competition from Ace Hardware to Best Buy. And competing with Best Buy is always a good idea, isn't that right Circuit City and CompUSA?
A year from now, I predict 'The Shack' will be liquidating assets under Chapter 11. Anyone wanna take that bet? It would be smarter than buying Radio Shack stock.
Yeah, it gives them incentive to trim unnecessary crap from the budget. Although there is such a thing as going too extreme, I'd rather my state be selling off it's capitol buildings than paying 10 people to 'supervise' 3 guys fixing a culvert under the road.
"I have a friend who lives near several farms. He and his wife are both dying of cancer. The health department checked their well water and found it with high levels of farm pesticides. THAT is the cost of conventional farming in addition to the pesticide residue that you consume each time you eat conventionally grown produce."
My guess is they live near large, improperly drained livestock farms. Pesticides and herbicides will runoff into waterways, not in to wells. My entire family farms, everyone in my area farms, everyone in my area uses wells for water. Out of my ~20 immediate family, only one had cancer, and that was my grandmother with breast cancer. I could pull the rates, but I would about guarantee you our cancer rates are average.
Our existing aircraft are hold overs from the Cold War much more than the F-22 is. The F-22 program was conceived toward the end of the Cold War and recieved some adaptations for more multipurpose roles throughout its development. (Although it is still primarly an air superiority designed to take out other advanced aircraft). But really whether or not it's a Cold War holdover is irrelevant.
You also have to consider effectiveness. How many more cheaper aircraft would we lose? More importantly the pilots? And there is the capability advantage that quite simply allows you to do things impossible with other aircraft.
Think back to the first Gulf War, the initial tank battle. Iraq had a ton of tanks. And they got obliterated. We lost like one tank to enemy fire. The big reason was, our Abrahms tanks could shoot much further than the Iraqi tanks, while moving, and very accurately. It was ~15-20 years newer than the Iraqi models.
The F-22 is very similar to that...it can engage enemy aircraft from a much further range, along with stealth and maneuverability advantages. Now we have a lot more planes than anyone else unlike the similar tank numbers, so yes, we would win by sheer numbers alone. But if China or North Korea goes apeshit some day and launches tons of fighter-bombers at Alaska or something, isn't it reassuring that we could take them out with very few, if any casualties, as opposed to using equivalent tech aircraft and losing dozens of them along with the pilots?
Keep in mind, I agree with cutting the program...we have enough F-22's and those suckers are expensive. My point is just that I think you are underestimating how important they are.
You're absolutely correct, but that's rather difficult to put a long-term figure on, and even then it would only be an estimate.
My biggest beef was the way the article was worded, it would make someone think it would cost us $339M to roll another one off the assembly line, which is not true because we already paid the $200M R&D cost.