That is why one of the keys to being promoted is never allow yourself to become indispensable in your current job. As another reply stated, always be training your replacement. Its common advice from hundreds of "career help" books, and it makes sense precisely because of what you described.
Support is built into Safari, and it is possible to set it up to log into a Windows domain, I believe.
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I'm a staunch capitalist, so I'm all for the market setting the price; I just figured I'd be a nice guy. The guy I sold it to was getting it for his 12 year old, so in this case, not a scalper.
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I put mine (6 months old) up on Craigslist a week ago, and I had cash for it within 4 hours. I didn't want to screw anyone, so I put it up there for retail. (On the other hand, recouping 100% of your money on a product that you used for 6 months is not anything to sneeze at.)
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I did not have IMAP in my account when I checked (as soon as it was posted on/.). I logged out of Gmail, and logged back in, and suddenly the option was there in settings. YMMV (but hopefully it will work).
I'm curious how they are implementing labels equaling folders... I see folders in Apple Mail for all my labels, and I see labels messages in my Inbox and in the label folder. I haven't started trying use cases to figure out how deleting, moving, and copying messages in Mail relates to the labels in Gmail.
What about the Ross Perots of the country who are going to run on thier own money?
What about the Rich John Hancocks of the country who are going to finance thier friend running?
What about the Small Town Joe Smiths of the country who have no connections, but a great idea, and are going to go around hawking every business owner they meet to get them to Washington?
Maybe instead of making new laws, we should let everyone do as they please and have the voters (with the help of the internet, etc) sort it out.
I have to disagree. I have a Silverado 1500 Z71 (not quite a 2500HD, but most folks aren't driving 2500HDs to work, and most SUVs are closer to my Silverado than your HD). It has almost no blind spot thanks to very large mirrors (certainly less than my wife's Accord). If you know how to drive a truck, it handles very well (even with the off road suspension). The braking is plenty reasonable if you drive to allow for the fact that you are in a big, heavy truck. And when you have to haul a load to the dump, pick up some plywood and 2x4s, etc, it simply can't be beat.
Incidentally, I ride my bicycle to work and on most short errands, so the truck only gets used on weekends for longer errands (or to pick up big stuff) or to haul the bike around to rides too far away to ride to. So yeah, I don't think my truck is a great vehicle to commute in - but it certainly is not as bad to drive as you describe.
Of course, but the composition of an aircraft is a lot different than that of a small explosive warhead, so the results will most likely be very different. For instance, if you throw a can of baked beans and a can of carborator cleaner into a campfire, you will get two very different results. By the time the carb cleaner explodes, the baked beans will likely show some exterior damage to the can, but not enough to render the can itself or the contents ruined.
That is ignoring the fact that a commerial (or even GA) aircraft has a vastly different radar signature than a MANPAD missile, so the aquisition radar ought to be able to easily discriminate between the two.
Other than the fact that it is a weapon system that shoots at flying stuff, AEGIS is nothing like this. Perhaps most obviously, AEGIS (much like PATRIOT) is designed to shoot down aircraft with missiles, not heat up missiles (NOT aircraft) with lasers, as the system in the article does.
Clearly he was talking about *bicycling*, which is a good deal cheaper than a motorcycle to buy, maintain, and operate, and can have great advantages for your health, as well.
I personally prefer a road bike to his recumbant (sp?), but the benefit are the same. I try to ride to work at least half the time (which I argue doubles the gas milage on my full-size pickup, which I bought for reasons other than commuting; there is also the savings in terms of less wear on your vehicle, which motorcycles and hybrids can't get you).
I have a 9.25 mile commute to work, 18.5 miles a day. Averaging around 20mph, I can get to work in 30 minutes, which is only 10 minutes longer than my vehicular commute, and can break even on days with extra traffic. The only real downsides are that if you're going to ride hard, you need a shower at work (I'm lucky in this respect), and that cycling can suck in bad weather (but again, I'm lucky, Albuquerque has over 75% sunny days).
little public money gets spent 'preventing' that carnage
Do you have your head in the sand? I don't have time to go dig up numbers, but just think about highway safety programs... an entire government agency to test cars, roadside phones, guardrails, highway maintenance, anti-drunk driving programs, ESSUV commercials... I could go on and on. I'm pretty sure that if you took all safety-related traffic programs in the US for the last, say, 5 years, it'd trump a couple hundred million dollars (which really isn't all that much in government terms).
Yeah... I know capitol vs. capital, just type the wrong one - guess I can't really blame that screw up on a typo though.:/
As far as the meat of your comment, I don't really agree... if you are hired as a researcher (discover and invent things) or an engineer (use knowledge to design new things), your very job description says that you will be generating IP for the company. Not that, as an engineer, I wouldn't love to get royalties on everything I came up with - but I'd rather have a solid paycheck I can budget on than hope to make something good enough that I can live on royalties supplementing my income (since, presumably, my salary would be lower if I had a royaly provision).
Sidebar: I *disagree* that a company should own anything you do outside of work just because you work there. If I don't spend any company time, IP, or resources, then anything I develop should be mine (my current employeer would take ownership of any software I write outside of work that is related to thier business - which is just about everything).
...who doesn't really get this? Sure, it's nice for a company to recognize thier employees with bonuses and such, but if I am hired by a company to invent and innovate *for that company*, then why do they owe me something (unless my contract says I will get a percentage of profits).
On one hand, it is an idea coming out of my head, but on the other hand, the company is paying a constant salary, and taking all the risks that 1) my idea won't work, 2) it costs millions to make the idea profitable, or even 3) I never have any revolutionary ideas. I could keep that IP and the resulting money, but I'd need to front the capitol to live, do the research, patent it, make it profitable, etc.
Banning personal portable storage devices (iPods, USB, powerful calculators w/ a computer connection, etc) is pretty much standard (and smart!) pratice when either government or industry classified/proprietary information is available. The risks are simply too great... the chance of soldiers dying due to a security violation or a company going under due to industrial espionage greatly trumps your desire to have a silly USB watch on your wrist all the time. If you don't like that reality, then don't take jobs that put you in contact with that sort of information in the first place.
Agreed - my credit union had a stupid script that would jump up and yell at you to update your browser everytime you accessed thier page, linked to an outdated webstandards campaign.
I sent them an email and had a reply and a fix within a week (thankfully, thier script didn't block access, just made things difficult).
I am amazed that for all the anti-WMD drivel being spouted in the comments, no one has made mention that the union walked off a job where they provided life-vs-death services, and then used the failures of those services under the so-called "scabs" to flaunt thier position.
Regardless of what one might think of unions (I personally think that in thier current state they cause more harm than good) this is simply irresponsible behavior. In taking a job at a facility like this, you take on a responsibility to society, not just to an employeer. These people walking off this job at midnight is no more excusable then a heart surgeon walking out in the middle of surgery because he doesn't like his contract with the hospital.
The shame here falls squarely on the shoulders of the union members for placing the lives of NYers in the balance of thier precious contracts, not on the "scabs" that we brought in to do the job that the union irresponsibly walked out on.
How about an attractive woman packing heat? From reading slashdot regularly, one can deduce that hot women seem to have univesal international apeal amongst open source geeks.
Not so... Food Network is popular with more than just old farts (I'm 25, was taught to cook by my Mom & Grandmother, and love to cook).
I wouldn't buy fruit or veggies without touching them. I check apples for firmness, smell carrots, sueeze and smell peppers, taste the end of celery, wiggle the stems of artichokes, etc. That's just how a smart consumer/cook buys produce.
There are always going to be smart consumers wanting to "kick the tires" - be it a car or a fruit that they are buying. That's not something that passes along with a generation.
Mr. Adams, who had a nonmalignant bone tumor removed from his left leg in 1985 and now suffers from a precancerous condition in his esophagus.
Hrm... the latter problem sounds like the result of prolonged untreated acid reflux (ala Nexium commercials), not the result of exposure to anything more than massive amounts of fried foods and caffine. IANAMD, but it seems that the reporter was either ignorant or taking advantage of the facts.
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That is why one of the keys to being promoted is never allow yourself to become indispensable in your current job. As another reply stated, always be training your replacement. Its common advice from hundreds of "career help" books, and it makes sense precisely because of what you described.
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=cac+on+mac&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Support is built into Safari, and it is possible to set it up to log into a Windows domain, I believe.
I'm a staunch capitalist, so I'm all for the market setting the price; I just figured I'd be a nice guy. The guy I sold it to was getting it for his 12 year old, so in this case, not a scalper.
I put mine (6 months old) up on Craigslist a week ago, and I had cash for it within 4 hours. I didn't want to screw anyone, so I put it up there for retail. (On the other hand, recouping 100% of your money on a product that you used for 6 months is not anything to sneeze at.)
I did not have IMAP in my account when I checked (as soon as it was posted on /.). I logged out of Gmail, and logged back in, and suddenly the option was there in settings. YMMV (but hopefully it will work).
I'm curious how they are implementing labels equaling folders... I see folders in Apple Mail for all my labels, and I see labels messages in my Inbox and in the label folder. I haven't started trying use cases to figure out how deleting, moving, and copying messages in Mail relates to the labels in Gmail.
What about the Ross Perots of the country who are going to run on thier own money?
What about the Rich John Hancocks of the country who are going to finance thier friend running?
What about the Small Town Joe Smiths of the country who have no connections, but a great idea, and are going to go around hawking every business owner they meet to get them to Washington?
Maybe instead of making new laws, we should let everyone do as they please and have the voters (with the help of the internet, etc) sort it out.
I wonder what extremely skilled individuals have an entire year to spare.
Er, May 1 to August 1 is 4 months, that'd be on quarter of a year. It even says 4 months in TFA.
I have to disagree. I have a Silverado 1500 Z71 (not quite a 2500HD, but most folks aren't driving 2500HDs to work, and most SUVs are closer to my Silverado than your HD). It has almost no blind spot thanks to very large mirrors (certainly less than my wife's Accord). If you know how to drive a truck, it handles very well (even with the off road suspension). The braking is plenty reasonable if you drive to allow for the fact that you are in a big, heavy truck. And when you have to haul a load to the dump, pick up some plywood and 2x4s, etc, it simply can't be beat.
Incidentally, I ride my bicycle to work and on most short errands, so the truck only gets used on weekends for longer errands (or to pick up big stuff) or to haul the bike around to rides too far away to ride to. So yeah, I don't think my truck is a great vehicle to commute in - but it certainly is not as bad to drive as you describe.
Of course, but the composition of an aircraft is a lot different than that of a small explosive warhead, so the results will most likely be very different. For instance, if you throw a can of baked beans and a can of carborator cleaner into a campfire, you will get two very different results. By the time the carb cleaner explodes, the baked beans will likely show some exterior damage to the can, but not enough to render the can itself or the contents ruined.
That is ignoring the fact that a commerial (or even GA) aircraft has a vastly different radar signature than a MANPAD missile, so the aquisition radar ought to be able to easily discriminate between the two.
Other than the fact that it is a weapon system that shoots at flying stuff, AEGIS is nothing like this. Perhaps most obviously, AEGIS (much like PATRIOT) is designed to shoot down aircraft with missiles, not heat up missiles (NOT aircraft) with lasers, as the system in the article does.
Cycle != Motorcycle
Clearly he was talking about *bicycling*, which is a good deal cheaper than a motorcycle to buy, maintain, and operate, and can have great advantages for your health, as well.
I personally prefer a road bike to his recumbant (sp?), but the benefit are the same. I try to ride to work at least half the time (which I argue doubles the gas milage on my full-size pickup, which I bought for reasons other than commuting; there is also the savings in terms of less wear on your vehicle, which motorcycles and hybrids can't get you).
I have a 9.25 mile commute to work, 18.5 miles a day. Averaging around 20mph, I can get to work in 30 minutes, which is only 10 minutes longer than my vehicular commute, and can break even on days with extra traffic. The only real downsides are that if you're going to ride hard, you need a shower at work (I'm lucky in this respect), and that cycling can suck in bad weather (but again, I'm lucky, Albuquerque has over 75% sunny days).
little public money gets spent 'preventing' that carnage
Do you have your head in the sand? I don't have time to go dig up numbers, but just think about highway safety programs... an entire government agency to test cars, roadside phones, guardrails, highway maintenance, anti-drunk driving programs, ESSUV commercials... I could go on and on. I'm pretty sure that if you took all safety-related traffic programs in the US for the last, say, 5 years, it'd trump a couple hundred million dollars (which really isn't all that much in government terms).
Yeah... I know capitol vs. capital, just type the wrong one - guess I can't really blame that screw up on a typo though. :/
As far as the meat of your comment, I don't really agree... if you are hired as a researcher (discover and invent things) or an engineer (use knowledge to design new things), your very job description says that you will be generating IP for the company. Not that, as an engineer, I wouldn't love to get royalties on everything I came up with - but I'd rather have a solid paycheck I can budget on than hope to make something good enough that I can live on royalties supplementing my income (since, presumably, my salary would be lower if I had a royaly provision).
Sidebar: I *disagree* that a company should own anything you do outside of work just because you work there. If I don't spend any company time, IP, or resources, then anything I develop should be mine (my current employeer would take ownership of any software I write outside of work that is related to thier business - which is just about everything).
...who doesn't really get this? Sure, it's nice for a company to recognize thier employees with bonuses and such, but if I am hired by a company to invent and innovate *for that company*, then why do they owe me something (unless my contract says I will get a percentage of profits).
On one hand, it is an idea coming out of my head, but on the other hand, the company is paying a constant salary, and taking all the risks that 1) my idea won't work, 2) it costs millions to make the idea profitable, or even 3) I never have any revolutionary ideas. I could keep that IP and the resulting money, but I'd need to front the capitol to live, do the research, patent it, make it profitable, etc.
...to vote Libertarian and help take the government's nose out of it's citizens' private lives and personal decisions.
Very, very true. But then, what do you expect from someone who's signature is "What part of "well regulated" is so hard to understand?"?
Banning personal portable storage devices (iPods, USB, powerful calculators w/ a computer connection, etc) is pretty much standard (and smart!) pratice when either government or industry classified/proprietary information is available. The risks are simply too great... the chance of soldiers dying due to a security violation or a company going under due to industrial espionage greatly trumps your desire to have a silly USB watch on your wrist all the time. If you don't like that reality, then don't take jobs that put you in contact with that sort of information in the first place.
Agreed - my credit union had a stupid script that would jump up and yell at you to update your browser everytime you accessed thier page, linked to an outdated webstandards campaign.
I sent them an email and had a reply and a fix within a week (thankfully, thier script didn't block access, just made things difficult).
And where in that article does it say "the Supreme Court made them do it."?
That, sir, is why you're wrong and the AC is right.
And good for them for doing it.
I am amazed that for all the anti-WMD drivel being spouted in the comments, no one has made mention that the union walked off a job where they provided life-vs-death services, and then used the failures of those services under the so-called "scabs" to flaunt thier position.
Regardless of what one might think of unions (I personally think that in thier current state they cause more harm than good) this is simply irresponsible behavior. In taking a job at a facility like this, you take on a responsibility to society, not just to an employeer. These people walking off this job at midnight is no more excusable then a heart surgeon walking out in the middle of surgery because he doesn't like his contract with the hospital.
The shame here falls squarely on the shoulders of the union members for placing the lives of NYers in the balance of thier precious contracts, not on the "scabs" that we brought in to do the job that the union irresponsibly walked out on.
I got a gift for the dog and a gift for the wife... but the wife only got me a card. So I went out and bought myself a drill press. :)
There are some who call me ... Tim?
or some other creature that can defend itself
How about an attractive woman packing heat? From reading slashdot regularly, one can deduce that hot women seem to have univesal international apeal amongst open source geeks.
Not so... Food Network is popular with more than just old farts (I'm 25, was taught to cook by my Mom & Grandmother, and love to cook).
I wouldn't buy fruit or veggies without touching them. I check apples for firmness, smell carrots, sueeze and smell peppers, taste the end of celery, wiggle the stems of artichokes, etc. That's just how a smart consumer/cook buys produce.
There are always going to be smart consumers wanting to "kick the tires" - be it a car or a fruit that they are buying. That's not something that passes along with a generation.
Mr. Adams, who had a nonmalignant bone tumor removed from his left leg in 1985 and now suffers from a precancerous condition in his esophagus.
Hrm... the latter problem sounds like the result of prolonged untreated acid reflux (ala Nexium commercials), not the result of exposure to anything more than massive amounts of fried foods and caffine. IANAMD, but it seems that the reporter was either ignorant or taking advantage of the facts.