Well I would assume that would be an obvious constraint (if not completely documented in your contract) when signing with such a company.
I hate it when people take an interesting idea and point out the few edge cases where it won't work. It's obviously not a conventional datacenter, and I would likely think that the bean counters would have figured in the cost of the premium salaries and determined if the ratio of what they're saving on cooling costs would work, well before the plan even got put into motion.
I work for a not-for-profit (not a non-profit, there is a difference) as a Programmer Analyst in Research & Development.
My cube is about 7'x7', give or take. I had the option to have a door, coat rack, bookshelf, regular shelf, locking drawers, rolling locking cabinets, locking shelves, individual flourescent or incandescent lighting installed, and still can at my discretion.
I have to say that my company is somewhat awesome, they respect their workforce quite a bit. We all get a few hours of paid time off randomly throughout the year for different events and occasions, we actually can control the temperature of our environments (the CEO _ACTIVELY REFUSED_ to let the maintenance staff put locking covers on the thermostats) and we have mostly unfettered internet access. It's still logged, but there are no blacklists of sites that are blocked. Maybe facebook, myspace, et al...but I wouldn't know, I'd rather not browse those on the company intranet anyways. Purchase requests are handled in a sane way (I need a new chair// Okay! [instead of] I need a new chair// Why? Did something happen to the old one? Can you find room in the budget? Are there any metal folding chairs in the facilities room?)
While my cubicle may be small, I can eat at my desk...I can close my 'door,' I can chat over the walls of my cube with my neighbors and we all know each other very well. I have a direct PSTN phone number to my desk and I can enable Domain Admin rights for myself anytime I need them.
I can also listen to Pandora or any other internet radio/music service while I work.
It's a funny thing when your company trusts you. Our metrics here are meeting deadlines and milestones, not lines of code checked in to the repo.
Now, let your mind boggle when I tell you this is a financial institution. Thats right, a credit union. You'd never see a bank be this relaxed with their staff.
As a teller for a large credit union, (similar to a bank, but member oriented instead of shareholder. Not-for-profit version.) there are checks that do this. Some of them require you to call the number on the front of the check and verify both amount and serial #, then you write an 'authorization number' or some such on the front. Business accounts usually are offered an option of pre-authorized checks, and I've even seen some business banking brochures that specifically offer 3rd party accounting software ledger support...I would assume it uploads a list of checks you've written out, so your financial institution can only allow certain combinations?
The only AT&T phone I've ever had that wouldn't let me set the ringtone as an mp3 from bluetooth or usb was the iPhone.
All the (6 to 8ish) other phones I had let me get a song on there some how and use it.
Well I'm no expert on Google's internal workings, but are any of these protocols or file systems they've developed been released outside of Google for public use?
I actually thought that the Chrome UI was designed pretty decently...when you maximize the program, the title bar becomes the tab bar. Why do you still need a full title bar when the window is maximized? It has a dedicated restore button after all.
Another thing, the colors in the UI are much more pleasing than the default XP Luna theme. They're much more pastel, much softer. They don't distract from the content, unlike the large full-color icons Firefox uses. In Chrome, the icons are all a darker shade of the overall color for the scheme.
I guess Chrome seems like a browser that is polished enough for the masses, while still being incredibly fast and powerful enough to deliver the JavaScript heavy pages we've all come to expect.
The pawn shop I bought it from allowed me to boot it up (just to 'make sure it worked') using one of their TVs. I explained to the owner that I needed a certain version for a game that was unsupported by a certain 'older version' of the xbox, so he let me see the K and D versions in the menu. Buying the game, you can also check the serial printed on the very inside of the disc, since most pawn or mom and pop shops let you inspect the disc.
Here in the US, these past-generation consoles are incredibly cheap. Also, the original xbox is a great modder's platform. I got my xbox for USD 40, plus 2 games. Add 5$ for a pawn-shop copy for MechAssault (for soft-modding), 10$ for brand new component cables, and I have a completely customizable powerful gaming platform that can play any content I throw at it.
Instead of pushing for these weak 'general purpose' TV appliances (that might or might not play any decent [read decent as playable and enjoyable, not necessarily the latest in 3D hardware] games), we should be working on re-purposing already existing hardware. I've turned quite a few friends on to XBMC, which really shines when I mention that ANY original xbox game is still playable on the machine.
Oddly enough, most things people would want to install (applications) that don't have packages (and thusly need to be compiled) require root for that last step. This is where `sudo` comes in.
Can a contract be cancelled because you install your own software (be it to bypass restrictions, install unauthorized apps or anything for that matter) on the hardware you purchased?
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That's still a verb. The past would be your noun, and clean would be your modifier/adjective.
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Well I would assume that would be an obvious constraint (if not completely documented in your contract) when signing with such a company.
I hate it when people take an interesting idea and point out the few edge cases where it won't work. It's obviously not a conventional datacenter, and I would likely think that the bean counters would have figured in the cost of the premium salaries and determined if the ratio of what they're saving on cooling costs would work, well before the plan even got put into motion.
No, I am Michael Kristopeit!
No, I am spartacus.
+1 Ethically Questionable Business Tactic
Aw come on dude...child porn too? Gross.
Well how many roads must a man walk? What is 6 multiplied by 9?
I once got a fortune cookie where the back said (under the learn chinese part):
Lucky Numbers: 4, 2, 42, 84, 8
Yeah, THAT is the real issue with his idea.
I work for a not-for-profit (not a non-profit, there is a difference) as a Programmer Analyst in Research & Development.
// Okay! [instead of] I need a new chair // Why? Did something happen to the old one? Can you find room in the budget? Are there any metal folding chairs in the facilities room?)
My cube is about 7'x7', give or take. I had the option to have a door, coat rack, bookshelf, regular shelf, locking drawers, rolling locking cabinets, locking shelves, individual flourescent or incandescent lighting installed, and still can at my discretion.
I have to say that my company is somewhat awesome, they respect their workforce quite a bit. We all get a few hours of paid time off randomly throughout the year for different events and occasions, we actually can control the temperature of our environments (the CEO _ACTIVELY REFUSED_ to let the maintenance staff put locking covers on the thermostats) and we have mostly unfettered internet access. It's still logged, but there are no blacklists of sites that are blocked. Maybe facebook, myspace, et al...but I wouldn't know, I'd rather not browse those on the company intranet anyways. Purchase requests are handled in a sane way (I need a new chair
While my cubicle may be small, I can eat at my desk...I can close my 'door,' I can chat over the walls of my cube with my neighbors and we all know each other very well. I have a direct PSTN phone number to my desk and I can enable Domain Admin rights for myself anytime I need them.
I can also listen to Pandora or any other internet radio/music service while I work.
It's a funny thing when your company trusts you. Our metrics here are meeting deadlines and milestones, not lines of code checked in to the repo.
Now, let your mind boggle when I tell you this is a financial institution. Thats right, a credit union. You'd never see a bank be this relaxed with their staff.
As a teller for a large credit union, (similar to a bank, but member oriented instead of shareholder. Not-for-profit version.) there are checks that do this. Some of them require you to call the number on the front of the check and verify both amount and serial #, then you write an 'authorization number' or some such on the front. Business accounts usually are offered an option of pre-authorized checks, and I've even seen some business banking brochures that specifically offer 3rd party accounting software ledger support...I would assume it uploads a list of checks you've written out, so your financial institution can only allow certain combinations?
The only AT&T phone I've ever had that wouldn't let me set the ringtone as an mp3 from bluetooth or usb was the iPhone. All the (6 to 8ish) other phones I had let me get a song on there some how and use it.
The city I live in in upstate New York is actually pretty good to it's citizens, believe it or not.
That thing sounds like a bad spam email.
That thing is hella cool. The longer demo is better, you may have to rtfa and click 3 links deep or so though.
I thoroughly enjoy the design of their website.
Well I'm no expert on Google's internal workings, but are any of these protocols or file systems they've developed been released outside of Google for public use?
I actually thought that the Chrome UI was designed pretty decently...when you maximize the program, the title bar becomes the tab bar. Why do you still need a full title bar when the window is maximized? It has a dedicated restore button after all.
Another thing, the colors in the UI are much more pleasing than the default XP Luna theme. They're much more pastel, much softer. They don't distract from the content, unlike the large full-color icons Firefox uses. In Chrome, the icons are all a darker shade of the overall color for the scheme.
I guess Chrome seems like a browser that is polished enough for the masses, while still being incredibly fast and powerful enough to deliver the JavaScript heavy pages we've all come to expect.
The pawn shop I bought it from allowed me to boot it up (just to 'make sure it worked') using one of their TVs. I explained to the owner that I needed a certain version for a game that was unsupported by a certain 'older version' of the xbox, so he let me see the K and D versions in the menu. Buying the game, you can also check the serial printed on the very inside of the disc, since most pawn or mom and pop shops let you inspect the disc.
Here in the US, these past-generation consoles are incredibly cheap. Also, the original xbox is a great modder's platform. I got my xbox for USD 40, plus 2 games. Add 5$ for a pawn-shop copy for MechAssault (for soft-modding), 10$ for brand new component cables, and I have a completely customizable powerful gaming platform that can play any content I throw at it. Instead of pushing for these weak 'general purpose' TV appliances (that might or might not play any decent [read decent as playable and enjoyable, not necessarily the latest in 3D hardware] games), we should be working on re-purposing already existing hardware. I've turned quite a few friends on to XBMC, which really shines when I mention that ANY original xbox game is still playable on the machine.
Oddly enough, most things people would want to install (applications) that don't have packages (and thusly need to be compiled) require root for that last step. This is where `sudo` comes in.
Because some calls (other skype users...) are completely free, with unlimited time.
Can a contract be cancelled because you install your own software (be it to bypass restrictions, install unauthorized apps or anything for that matter) on the hardware you purchased?
Doesn't sound all that inconvenient...
I would assume that since you can browse the web and use listening sockets you must have something to put in those packet headers as a source address.