You don't understand. I wasn't hitting 60 in 2 to 3 seconds. I was hitting 60 (Scale 600mph) in tenths of a second and I was 16!. Tesla is getting this speed without even trying. Get a real race enthusiast to start messing with these? Forget F1, it'll be like being behind a rocket engine. I've seen RC drag races that resulted in the motor ripping the tires off the rims, and they were glued on. 2 to 3 seconds will be laughable when the real drag race guys get hold of this stuff.
She attended school, despite threats from various, very scary groups that any girl caught doing so would be attacked. There was basically a civil war while she was in school and girls were banned from attending, but she went anyways. She worked for the BBC all this time, describing what it was like. Enlightening people in the west to the plight of girls in this area of the world. Then the Taliban ordered her dead. A gunman drove up, ordered her to identify herself or he'd shoot them all. She did and was shot. She nearly died. She survived the attack and continued to attend school. This brought world wide attention to the plight of women in Pakistan. She recovered, continued to attend school, got exiled, etc... She's met with damn near every world leader. Asked and received funding to support the education of women. Got money from the UN Wrote books, articles, blogs, etc... all encouraging young women to attend school and get an education no matter what. At any point during all of this she could have simply attended private school and shut her mouth to avoid the threats but she refused.
Nobel Prizes are given for a lifetime of achievement. This girl has already done more in the less than 2 decades she's been alive then the whole of the Slashdot community combined. There are a lot of questionable Nobel awards out there, but this is not one of them.
Let me define what real trolling is for you: Trolling is the attempt to get an emotional reaction out of a target by using social engineering. The primary goal of trolling is usually, but not limited to, getting targets to become less emotionally invested in online discussions.
You can use trolling to harass a person. You could end up harassing a person while trolling. But they are 2 completely separate activities.
Likewise, trolling is not chauvinistic or race related, but because those topics tend to elicit strong emotional reactions in people, they are obviously good subjects to use while trolling.
Let me explain... Lets say you live in a suburb outside of Dallas TX Your ISP is based in Dallas Your ISP has a 10gig tunk from the suburb to Dallas Your ISP then has 100gig worth of peering to the rest of the net from Dallas You notice that when you try and watch Youtube, you're having trouble On friday night, when you decide to test, they have 130gig worth of traffic coming out of your suburb. (i.e. that trunk is over-saturated)
If traffic to your testing site is prioritized, and I guarantee you that it is, any test you make to that site will work fine. Everyone else, going everywhere else on the net will be forced to slow down a tad so your test can have an unimpeded route. Viola, you do have a saturated trunk causing you problems but the test does not reveal it. The only way the test would actually work is if everyone on that trunk tested to the same site at the same time.
Given modern traffic shaping tech, they can shape your traffic based on almost anything. Port, site, packet type, anything. It's virtually impossible to "test" anything on the network unless you own the network.
Could the test reveal a problem? Yes. But if the test shows there is not a problem, it definitely does not mean there isn't one.
This is how electric will win. Performance. When I was in High-school I raced RC cars for fun, and I remembered by gear head friends giving me crap about working on "Toy cars" until I challenged one of them to a drag race, against his real, full sized muscle car, and won hands down. The torque from an electric motor is just monstrous. So much so, that I suspect if they continue to build electric sports cars, the gforce alone will become a safety issue. My drag car would pull 100amps off the starting line and could melt battery cables, and the thing only weighed 2lbs. It'd be doing the scale equivalent of over 1000mph when I got to the end of the track. Yes, yes, I know at full scale wind resistance is different and such, but still. I had a hunk of carbon fiber doing 100mph in a few feet for Christs sake.
The sorts of people that hate electric because it's a "hippie thing" will embrace it because the fact of the matter is that, in the end, it just performs better. Can't have hippies beating your Cudda with a Prius.
Actually, that is marketing voodoo... but they are sort of onto something. Think of how much fuel was burnt moving all that gas around the world. Now we get it here...
The the supreme court will decline ruling on it, and nothing will change.
No, they'll rule.
The supreme court almost always makes the correct ruling... weather you and I agree with it or not. Citzens united, for example, was the correct ruling... even as unpopular as it was. Freedom does have its price after all. But SCOTUS are very slow to rule. They wait to take cases during the "right time" or when public opinion moves in the right direction. They are aware that if they rule on something that's currently very unpopular, they could cause a public backlash that would lead to even worse laws being created by congress.
These NSLs are clearly unconstitutional. They know it, you know it, I know it, even those issuing the NSLs know it. It's just a matter of time. Public opinion is in the right direction, there is no valid defense for NSLs existence, there would be no backlash, they are getting struck down. The only reason I could see them not ruling is if there is something "Technically" wrong with the case. Sometimes SCOTUS will deny one case and accept another because their ruling on the first could be used in a "Bad way" or be somehow misconstrued legally.
There is no way to test "The internet" The fact of the matter is you make dozens of hops, even hundreds, to get anywhere. En-route you can hit any number of choke points. If you run a speed test I can almost guarantee your ISP knows about the speed test site and is going to prioritize your traffic. Add to that the fact that the speed test site is likely hosted somewhere like the Amazon cloud and all you're testing is your route to about the easiest place to get to.
Is your ISP throttling Torrents? Netflix? Youtube? A test to any other site is useless if they prioritize that and throttle where you actually want to go. Is there a problem with your NID? The remote you connect to? The peering they have setup?
On top of all of that, speed test sites are just a test of downloading various file sizes. That's easy... flawless movie playback and seamless online game play? That's an entirely different story. You've no idea how many friends I've had complain about their ISP throttling their game, only to find out later the problem cleared up when they got a new video card. lol
So if your ISP is not working for your needs, you need to switch. If you have other options, most offer a contract free option now-a-days. Try that out and cancel if it's no better. If you have no other options, you're stuck with it anyway.
Your best bet, if you're stuck with that ISP, is to make friends with a tech. Get one out there for some reason, offer him a beer, whatever. Joke, laugh, etc... he'll probably tell you what's up. Once you know where the problem is, often you can figure out how to talk them into a better solution. In these situations you're usually fighting their bureaucracy... its not that they don't want to help, it's just a lot of paperwork to get that help. Be more annoying than the paperwork.
I'm trying to recall slashdot's reaction about a decade ago when the courts said that Microsoft couldn't ship their own version of the JRE with windows to run java applications.
I think it was lauded as crushing anti-competitive behavior. How is Google shipping their own custom JRE on phones they control 70% of the market for that different? I mean other than that they won't let you override the install with the Oracle version?
I agree that Oracle can die in a fire, and I will not shed a single tear, but for consistency's sake, is there something different here?
Yea, it's amazing how the public sides with the company that isn't trying to screw them at every turn. Google is generally nice to us... Microsoft and Oracle are about the biggest Jerks in tech... Funny how that works, eh?
A similar situation: I hate you because you slept with my wife, and you snag a beer our of my fridge? My reaction would be? You just gave me a ride home after my car broken down, and you snag a beer our of the fridge. My reaction again?
But at some point, an attorney general is going to have to have to call a spade and spade and actually file criminal charges against actual officials for the pattern that keeps emerging at the telecoms and cable companies. Notoriety for agreeing to pay $X for Y and then finding $X steadily increasing or Y getting padded is not an oversight. It's a pattern of fraud. People need to go to prison for that. The shareholders will thank the states after a few years if the states clean house in these companies and thus hopefully put an end to that rotten culture. It's a liability.
No... you don't understand how corporate cultures work. I have worked for several, including AT&T. They are designed for profit... and nothing else. So groups are created. Departments. Processes. You need to think of a company like AT&T like an ant-hill. There may be a queen and she may give a command like "Get me food!" but how that happens is completely outside her sphere of knowledge or even understanding. I'd even go so far as to say that in most corporate cultures Executives have very little to do with the direction of the company other than the people they hire.
It's not like someone says "Hey! I bet we could do this illegal thing and make lots of money! They'll never catch us!" What happens is the collective actions of dozens of departments have a culture that is profitable. If it's not profitable, they get laid off, or broken up... eventually such systems develop in such a way that they make lots of money. Their upper management sees lots of green so all is well. The problem with this situation is that none of those people can see the forest from the trees. Collectively those departments are doing something illegal. But none of them, individually, think what they are doing illegal because they can't see the entire picture.
The department that checks that the payments were authorized gets bonuses based on how much work they get done. So they authorize more. The billing department gets a cool trip because they got 98% on time payments. The printing department was congratulated for simplifying the bill resulting in fewer questions about bills. All, individually are totally legit. Together you have 1 department authorizing questionable content, another printing bills with missing information and a 3rd getting customers off the phone so fast they're practically hanging up on them. Combined, you have collusion to defraud, yet I guarantee you that if you asked any one of those people they'd tell you they had no idea what was going on.
And trust me, even if you did suspect something, going into a meeting and suggesting that your companies hugely successful, hugely profitable lead project is a terrible idea. Even if you're correct and save the company from legal action, you'll be looked at like that guy at the party that said "Maybe we shouldn't drink so much..." good idea, yes... popularity winner? NO
You mention all of the relevent numbers but then fail to see their significance. It's HARD to get Ebola in a country with modern sanitation systems. Yes, if 12% of the population catches Ebola we're screwed. But they wont.
Sorry, but this is your fault. They'll cover what's in your service contract. In there you should have very specifically, what is considered reasonable performance. What is a bug. What is not. And how long they have to remedy that. If you don't, that's your own damned fault. If it is in there, and they aren't living up to it, then your lawyers should be talking to theirs about a financial remedy which should also be spelled out in the contract.
I suspect that their real concern is making older cards backward compatible with new features. Do you really think last years video card can't support the newest version of DirectX? Remember the Intel chips that you could upgrade by simply soldering 2 pins together? I suspect that THAT is what they are really afraid of. The mod community figuring out how to make upgrading less important.
The point is... while this epidemic is going on, it will be very hard to control the study. Most Ebola outbreaks affect less than a few hundred people. There are enough people in Africa infected now that if you limit access to this Vaccine a whole cottage industry will likely spring up around it. Just like it did over AZT in the 80s. Do YOU want to be the healthcare worker guarding the stash of drugs that's the only hope for survival to the teaming throngs surrounding your clinic?
Give it to everyone, hope for the best, when the worst is over start your study.
I have a Model M in the closet. It's old, yellowed and the plug wont work without at least 2 adapters in-line.
But, you can still get nice switched keyboards if you like them as much as I do. Look for "Cherry" switches or in my case I got reproductions because they were cheaper. There are various colors but basically it comes down to if you like the "clicking" sounds, the Cherry Reds are the loudest and the Cherry Blues are the quietest. I have the Blues and it still drives my wife nutz. You can get an all plastic keyboard for around $50... If you want it to be build like a tank link the IBMs were, expect to spend $80 or more. If you want actual Cherry switches they can go as high as $300.
I've got a keyboard with reproduction Cherry Blue switches and a steel back plate. I got it off Newegg for about $85 and it's fantastic. I was ordering a new keyboard about every 6 months until I got a mechanical one. Works great for games to.
Your study is doomed already. Ask the researchers that tested AIDs drugs in the 80s. People will share pills in an attempt to be sure they got the right thing. They'll buy them on the black market. They'll join multiple studies and take herbal remedies. When death is on the line people will do what they need to do to survive, your study be damned. So just give the drug to them all and save your study work for when there isn't an epidemic going on.
One of the first things a collections agency will do is call your employer.
Only if they want to be shut down in short order. Contacting your employer is one of the few things that collection agencies cannot do without landing in hot water.
You're seriously starting from scratch? Oh man... wish I could do that.
Lets see... #1 thing... when I started way-back-when, we had this giant display board that would show alarms on equipment. It looked neat, and made us look fancy. Don't do that... It was useless to those of us fixing stuff. The only people that looked at it were executives. Every hour or two some VP would come running over "Why is NewYork blinking red?!?!?!" "Because the gateways is down." "Is that bad?!?!" yada yada
Setup a wiki... make sure everyone has permissions to edit it. Make sure you have procedures in place for how and when to edit it.
I don't know what equipment you're using, but if you have a choice, try and go to a monoculture of one manufacturer if you can. We had a huge mess of every type of device you could imagine from every company on earth. Over in California we had 3 Juniper routers. Every time something "strange" happened with those we had to call the "Juniper guy" You should all be experts in everything you have and the easiest way to do that is to go with one vendor. It makes it easier to hire for. "We're a Cisco shop" or "We're a Juniper shop" whatever... That's up to you and how talented the people your managements willing to pay for. If they only will hire people green out of techschool like my old boss was, then this is likely a good idea.
Setup a centralized on-call list that charts whos responsible for what. One of the worst things that can happen during an outage is that you're screwing around calling Bob to get Toms number, because he has to change the firewall to let Tim into the device he needs to fix. This goes all the way down to your facilities people. I had an outage once that we couldn't address because the basement of the building was flooded and no-one knew who to call to get the pipes fixed.
Is everything you do software? Or will you be handing the equipment as well? Everything I did was via-remote. I rarely actually touched equipment, we had field techs for that. But my buddy that does the same job I did, now has a job where he actually unboxes the equipment and installs it personally. If you're going to do that I'd recomend a good printer, cable labeling templates... practice using both. TOOLS! Specifically "Easyouts" for stripped screws. A Small hammer. Hand-screw-drivers. Wire snips, etc...
Along those same lines, a benchtop with every type of OS that will pass through your stuff. We had Every version of Windows, MACs, Linux, etc... usually these were just to prove the vendor wrong... We'd submit a ticket for a bug and they'd say "Oh, that only happens with a MAC!!!" so we'd test it out "No it doesn't" etc...
I'm not sure if I got overly basic with you there, but that's how we did it. For actually configuring devices, we'd have one of the leads write a script and then foist it off on "the new guy" to put it on every device. It's been about 5yrs since I've done a config though so things might not be as simple with all the modern GUI stuff.
It's simple... he's in collections, who, by default know where he works. It's freely available to all collections agencies via Experian. One of the first things a collections agency will do is call your employer. If his employer does a large amount of business with Comcast he'd be out the door faster than he can blink.
This is his employers fault for selling his employment data in exchange for free employment reference services. http://www.learnvest.com/2013/... Your employer is likely doing the same...
And then again their fault for firing him over some minor missed payments.
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If your other race car is a 64 mustang or a corvette, range wasn't a concern in the first place.
You don't understand. I wasn't hitting 60 in 2 to 3 seconds. I was hitting 60 (Scale 600mph) in tenths of a second and I was 16!. Tesla is getting this speed without even trying. Get a real race enthusiast to start messing with these? Forget F1, it'll be like being behind a rocket engine. I've seen RC drag races that resulted in the motor ripping the tires off the rims, and they were glued on. 2 to 3 seconds will be laughable when the real drag race guys get hold of this stuff.
lol, you have no idea what you're talking about and you can't even be bothered to check out wikipedia before you attack a teenage girl?
Let me make it easy for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
She attended school, despite threats from various, very scary groups that any girl caught doing so would be attacked.
There was basically a civil war while she was in school and girls were banned from attending, but she went anyways.
She worked for the BBC all this time, describing what it was like. Enlightening people in the west to the plight of girls in this area of the world.
Then the Taliban ordered her dead. A gunman drove up, ordered her to identify herself or he'd shoot them all. She did and was shot. She nearly died.
She survived the attack and continued to attend school.
This brought world wide attention to the plight of women in Pakistan.
She recovered, continued to attend school, got exiled, etc...
She's met with damn near every world leader.
Asked and received funding to support the education of women.
Got money from the UN
Wrote books, articles, blogs, etc... all encouraging young women to attend school and get an education no matter what.
At any point during all of this she could have simply attended private school and shut her mouth to avoid the threats but she refused.
Nobel Prizes are given for a lifetime of achievement. This girl has already done more in the less than 2 decades she's been alive then the whole of the Slashdot community combined. There are a lot of questionable Nobel awards out there, but this is not one of them.
Let me define what real trolling is for you: Trolling is the attempt to get an emotional reaction out of a target by using social engineering. The primary goal of trolling is usually, but not limited to, getting targets to become less emotionally invested in online discussions.
You can use trolling to harass a person.
You could end up harassing a person while trolling.
But they are 2 completely separate activities.
Likewise, trolling is not chauvinistic or race related, but because those topics tend to elicit strong emotional reactions in people, they are obviously good subjects to use while trolling.
Let me explain...
Lets say you live in a suburb outside of Dallas TX
Your ISP is based in Dallas
Your ISP has a 10gig tunk from the suburb to Dallas
Your ISP then has 100gig worth of peering to the rest of the net from Dallas
You notice that when you try and watch Youtube, you're having trouble
On friday night, when you decide to test, they have 130gig worth of traffic coming out of your suburb. (i.e. that trunk is over-saturated)
If traffic to your testing site is prioritized, and I guarantee you that it is, any test you make to that site will work fine.
Everyone else, going everywhere else on the net will be forced to slow down a tad so your test can have an unimpeded route.
Viola, you do have a saturated trunk causing you problems but the test does not reveal it.
The only way the test would actually work is if everyone on that trunk tested to the same site at the same time.
Given modern traffic shaping tech, they can shape your traffic based on almost anything. Port, site, packet type, anything. It's virtually impossible to "test" anything on the network unless you own the network.
Could the test reveal a problem? Yes. But if the test shows there is not a problem, it definitely does not mean there isn't one.
This is how electric will win. Performance.
When I was in High-school I raced RC cars for fun, and I remembered by gear head friends giving me crap about working on "Toy cars" until I challenged one of them to a drag race, against his real, full sized muscle car, and won hands down. The torque from an electric motor is just monstrous. So much so, that I suspect if they continue to build electric sports cars, the gforce alone will become a safety issue. My drag car would pull 100amps off the starting line and could melt battery cables, and the thing only weighed 2lbs. It'd be doing the scale equivalent of over 1000mph when I got to the end of the track. Yes, yes, I know at full scale wind resistance is different and such, but still. I had a hunk of carbon fiber doing 100mph in a few feet for Christs sake.
The sorts of people that hate electric because it's a "hippie thing" will embrace it because the fact of the matter is that, in the end, it just performs better. Can't have hippies beating your Cudda with a Prius.
Random video I found on youtube as a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Actually, that is marketing voodoo... but they are sort of onto something. Think of how much fuel was burnt moving all that gas around the world. Now we get it here...
The the supreme court will decline ruling on it, and nothing will change.
No, they'll rule.
The supreme court almost always makes the correct ruling... weather you and I agree with it or not. Citzens united, for example, was the correct ruling... even as unpopular as it was. Freedom does have its price after all. But SCOTUS are very slow to rule. They wait to take cases during the "right time" or when public opinion moves in the right direction. They are aware that if they rule on something that's currently very unpopular, they could cause a public backlash that would lead to even worse laws being created by congress.
These NSLs are clearly unconstitutional. They know it, you know it, I know it, even those issuing the NSLs know it. It's just a matter of time. Public opinion is in the right direction, there is no valid defense for NSLs existence, there would be no backlash, they are getting struck down. The only reason I could see them not ruling is if there is something "Technically" wrong with the case. Sometimes SCOTUS will deny one case and accept another because their ruling on the first could be used in a "Bad way" or be somehow misconstrued legally.
$100k gets it to beta, not production.
There is no way to test "The internet"
The fact of the matter is you make dozens of hops, even hundreds, to get anywhere. En-route you can hit any number of choke points. If you run a speed test I can almost guarantee your ISP knows about the speed test site and is going to prioritize your traffic. Add to that the fact that the speed test site is likely hosted somewhere like the Amazon cloud and all you're testing is your route to about the easiest place to get to.
Is your ISP throttling Torrents? Netflix? Youtube? A test to any other site is useless if they prioritize that and throttle where you actually want to go. Is there a problem with your NID? The remote you connect to? The peering they have setup?
On top of all of that, speed test sites are just a test of downloading various file sizes. That's easy... flawless movie playback and seamless online game play? That's an entirely different story. You've no idea how many friends I've had complain about their ISP throttling their game, only to find out later the problem cleared up when they got a new video card. lol
So if your ISP is not working for your needs, you need to switch. If you have other options, most offer a contract free option now-a-days. Try that out and cancel if it's no better. If you have no other options, you're stuck with it anyway.
Your best bet, if you're stuck with that ISP, is to make friends with a tech. Get one out there for some reason, offer him a beer, whatever. Joke, laugh, etc... he'll probably tell you what's up. Once you know where the problem is, often you can figure out how to talk them into a better solution. In these situations you're usually fighting their bureaucracy... its not that they don't want to help, it's just a lot of paperwork to get that help. Be more annoying than the paperwork.
Can your dog do that? Even a Chimp? No? Then they are important and a sign that something interesting was going on.
Yes
I'm trying to recall slashdot's reaction about a decade ago when the courts said that Microsoft couldn't ship their own version of the JRE with windows to run java applications.
I think it was lauded as crushing anti-competitive behavior. How is Google shipping their own custom JRE on phones they control 70% of the market for that different? I mean other than that they won't let you override the install with the Oracle version?
I agree that Oracle can die in a fire, and I will not shed a single tear, but for consistency's sake, is there something different here?
Yea, it's amazing how the public sides with the company that isn't trying to screw them at every turn.
Google is generally nice to us...
Microsoft and Oracle are about the biggest Jerks in tech...
Funny how that works, eh?
A similar situation:
I hate you because you slept with my wife, and you snag a beer our of my fridge? My reaction would be?
You just gave me a ride home after my car broken down, and you snag a beer our of the fridge. My reaction again?
Is that a double standard?
But at some point, an attorney general is going to have to have to call a spade and spade and actually file criminal charges against actual officials for the pattern that keeps emerging at the telecoms and cable companies. Notoriety for agreeing to pay $X for Y and then finding $X steadily increasing or Y getting padded is not an oversight. It's a pattern of fraud. People need to go to prison for that. The shareholders will thank the states after a few years if the states clean house in these companies and thus hopefully put an end to that rotten culture. It's a liability.
No... you don't understand how corporate cultures work. I have worked for several, including AT&T. They are designed for profit... and nothing else. So groups are created. Departments. Processes. You need to think of a company like AT&T like an ant-hill. There may be a queen and she may give a command like "Get me food!" but how that happens is completely outside her sphere of knowledge or even understanding. I'd even go so far as to say that in most corporate cultures Executives have very little to do with the direction of the company other than the people they hire.
It's not like someone says "Hey! I bet we could do this illegal thing and make lots of money! They'll never catch us!" What happens is the collective actions of dozens of departments have a culture that is profitable. If it's not profitable, they get laid off, or broken up... eventually such systems develop in such a way that they make lots of money. Their upper management sees lots of green so all is well. The problem with this situation is that none of those people can see the forest from the trees. Collectively those departments are doing something illegal. But none of them, individually, think what they are doing illegal because they can't see the entire picture.
The department that checks that the payments were authorized gets bonuses based on how much work they get done. So they authorize more. The billing department gets a cool trip because they got 98% on time payments. The printing department was congratulated for simplifying the bill resulting in fewer questions about bills. All, individually are totally legit. Together you have 1 department authorizing questionable content, another printing bills with missing information and a 3rd getting customers off the phone so fast they're practically hanging up on them. Combined, you have collusion to defraud, yet I guarantee you that if you asked any one of those people they'd tell you they had no idea what was going on.
And trust me, even if you did suspect something, going into a meeting and suggesting that your companies hugely successful, hugely profitable lead project is a terrible idea. Even if you're correct and save the company from legal action, you'll be looked at like that guy at the party that said "Maybe we shouldn't drink so much..." good idea, yes... popularity winner? NO
Is there a more sleazy, incompetent corporate entity on the face of this planet?
Comcast.
Oracle beats them all, hands down.
You mention all of the relevent numbers but then fail to see their significance. It's HARD to get Ebola in a country with modern sanitation systems. Yes, if 12% of the population catches Ebola we're screwed. But they wont.
Sorry, but this is your fault. They'll cover what's in your service contract.
In there you should have very specifically, what is considered reasonable performance. What is a bug. What is not. And how long they have to remedy that. If you don't, that's your own damned fault. If it is in there, and they aren't living up to it, then your lawyers should be talking to theirs about a financial remedy which should also be spelled out in the contract.
I suspect that their real concern is making older cards backward compatible with new features. Do you really think last years video card can't support the newest version of DirectX? Remember the Intel chips that you could upgrade by simply soldering 2 pins together? I suspect that THAT is what they are really afraid of. The mod community figuring out how to make upgrading less important.
The point is... while this epidemic is going on, it will be very hard to control the study. Most Ebola outbreaks affect less than a few hundred people. There are enough people in Africa infected now that if you limit access to this Vaccine a whole cottage industry will likely spring up around it. Just like it did over AZT in the 80s. Do YOU want to be the healthcare worker guarding the stash of drugs that's the only hope for survival to the teaming throngs surrounding your clinic?
Give it to everyone, hope for the best, when the worst is over start your study.
I have a Model M in the closet. It's old, yellowed and the plug wont work without at least 2 adapters in-line.
But, you can still get nice switched keyboards if you like them as much as I do. Look for "Cherry" switches or in my case I got reproductions because they were cheaper. There are various colors but basically it comes down to if you like the "clicking" sounds, the Cherry Reds are the loudest and the Cherry Blues are the quietest. I have the Blues and it still drives my wife nutz. You can get an all plastic keyboard for around $50... If you want it to be build like a tank link the IBMs were, expect to spend $80 or more. If you want actual Cherry switches they can go as high as $300.
I've got a keyboard with reproduction Cherry Blue switches and a steel back plate. I got it off Newegg for about $85 and it's fantastic. I was ordering a new keyboard about every 6 months until I got a mechanical one. Works great for games to.
Your study is doomed already. Ask the researchers that tested AIDs drugs in the 80s. People will share pills in an attempt to be sure they got the right thing. They'll buy them on the black market. They'll join multiple studies and take herbal remedies. When death is on the line people will do what they need to do to survive, your study be damned. So just give the drug to them all and save your study work for when there isn't an epidemic going on.
She didn't HAVE a Facebook account. They created it for her. Using their reasoning they could do the same to you.
One of the first things a collections agency will do is call your employer.
Only if they want to be shut down in short order. Contacting your employer is one of the few things that collection agencies cannot do without landing in hot water.
You're cute!
Welcome to the real world buddy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You're seriously starting from scratch? Oh man... wish I could do that.
Lets see... #1 thing... when I started way-back-when, we had this giant display board that would show alarms on equipment. It looked neat, and made us look fancy. Don't do that... It was useless to those of us fixing stuff. The only people that looked at it were executives. Every hour or two some VP would come running over "Why is NewYork blinking red?!?!?!" "Because the gateways is down." "Is that bad?!?!" yada yada
Setup a wiki... make sure everyone has permissions to edit it. Make sure you have procedures in place for how and when to edit it.
I don't know what equipment you're using, but if you have a choice, try and go to a monoculture of one manufacturer if you can. We had a huge mess of every type of device you could imagine from every company on earth. Over in California we had 3 Juniper routers. Every time something "strange" happened with those we had to call the "Juniper guy" You should all be experts in everything you have and the easiest way to do that is to go with one vendor. It makes it easier to hire for. "We're a Cisco shop" or "We're a Juniper shop" whatever... That's up to you and how talented the people your managements willing to pay for. If they only will hire people green out of techschool like my old boss was, then this is likely a good idea.
Setup a centralized on-call list that charts whos responsible for what. One of the worst things that can happen during an outage is that you're screwing around calling Bob to get Toms number, because he has to change the firewall to let Tim into the device he needs to fix. This goes all the way down to your facilities people. I had an outage once that we couldn't address because the basement of the building was flooded and no-one knew who to call to get the pipes fixed.
Is everything you do software? Or will you be handing the equipment as well? Everything I did was via-remote. I rarely actually touched equipment, we had field techs for that. But my buddy that does the same job I did, now has a job where he actually unboxes the equipment and installs it personally. If you're going to do that I'd recomend a good printer, cable labeling templates... practice using both. TOOLS! Specifically "Easyouts" for stripped screws. A Small hammer. Hand-screw-drivers. Wire snips, etc...
Along those same lines, a benchtop with every type of OS that will pass through your stuff. We had Every version of Windows, MACs, Linux, etc... usually these were just to prove the vendor wrong... We'd submit a ticket for a bug and they'd say "Oh, that only happens with a MAC!!!" so we'd test it out "No it doesn't" etc...
I'm not sure if I got overly basic with you there, but that's how we did it.
For actually configuring devices, we'd have one of the leads write a script and then foist it off on "the new guy" to put it on every device. It's been about 5yrs since I've done a config though so things might not be as simple with all the modern GUI stuff.
It's simple... he's in collections, who, by default know where he works. It's freely available to all collections agencies via Experian. One of the first things a collections agency will do is call your employer. If his employer does a large amount of business with Comcast he'd be out the door faster than he can blink.
This is his employers fault for selling his employment data in exchange for free employment reference services.
http://www.learnvest.com/2013/...
Your employer is likely doing the same...
And then again their fault for firing him over some minor missed payments.