Eh, my company had postings for at least 3-4 tech positions for our Montana data center in the last six months or so. They're not as numerous as they are for the big cities, but they exist.
It's so damn cold in the winter though. I got sent up to Brrrrville in December when there was a fresh foot of snow on top of all the old half-melted compact snow and I was very displeased at the 0F temperatures I endured.
Can't we comprormise and have MT be the home of the summer data center, and then have a winter data center down in Florida?
Most tapes are written and then rewritten on a weekly or monthly basis. The medical office that was using LTO would have a daily incremental backup and then a once a week full backup. The software would run a verification check on each tape and give us a warning when it determined one was degrading.
Tapes saved our ass when the motherboard blew out on their main server and took out the RAID to boot. We were able to retrieve the data from backup without any problem.
I don't know anyone who has finished Coil 2, Turn 5 (aka Turn 10) yet. There's your content only 5% can complete.
My first Titan EX attempt, about half the failures were my fault. Lately it's been everyone else that sucked. My free company still doesn't have enough at 50 for an entirely FC run. One or two more there should do it....
Same route I took. English undergrad, web programming/MIS master's degree. Now I do what I really wanted to do all along with the English degree, which is write documentation (along with various other duties as an analyst, many of which require writing in some fashion as well.)
I paid $129 for my phone cash up front from Metro PCS. My service plan was $45 til I added in wi-fi tethering to bring it to $55/month. (My husband uses it more than I do though.)
Like its spouse T-Mobile, I can't use MetroPCS outside of large cities, except for emergencies or text messages. But if I'm out in the boonies, then I'm traveling from point A to point B on the Interstate or doing primitive camping - and don't need to be using my cell phone anyway!
That's actually a good solution. One of the concerns police have is a criminal disarming them (or just making a grab for their weapon). This would ensure that only an officer actually gets to fire the gun if the situation warrants it. If a suspect snags it from them in am altercation, it's useless.
When the shell with a NASA bot (Toki) moved to Seraph, we simply pulled out of the Land Gods race and focused on {sea}, {sky}, Dynamis, ToAU, and Limbus instead. The NASA group didn't waste their time on the {sky} spawns and we always hit {sea} when they were doing Dynamis runs. They did gank our Xarcabard one go round.
The leaders got busted for gil-buying shortly before NASA went down, then the rest of the shell dissolved when it died. Most of them transferred servers since they were blacklisted from endgame on ours. Harmony restored.
I still play XI casually. I had led a Dynamis shell and finished Gjallarhorn then later on Dardaubla, so I still hop on a couple times a week to help the remnants of that old group out.
Square Enix still knows how to make a mean HNM type monster. I'm stuck on Titan Extreme on FFXIV. Unlike the old HNMs of FFXI, though, you don't have to compete with a hundred other people just for the opportunity to fight him. While there are still elusive open-world type HNMs with stupid spawn times (I've never even seen Odin or Behemoth), they are within open-access fights called FATES that anyone can join.
The downside of the PantsPockets(TM) is that you can still feel the tempting vibrations of the phone when it rings. The iManBag can be safely stored on the seat beside you, eliminating the temptation. Additionally, most PantsPockets(TM) do not come with a closure such as a snap or zipper.
It was the players who nicknamed it that, not the provider. Whoever it was sold an entire external server with a packet router on it that gave an entire linkshell (guild) of people the extra millisecond advantage needed to claim monsters first. The company sold the system for $3000 a pop, and only sold one per game server to ensure that the group using it would have no competition.
The reign of terror lasted about six months before SE finally figured out who was selling the NASA bot system and sent a pointed cease and desist letter. The programmer and designer of the system complied and all the servers were taken offline. Many of the users were ultimately banned.
To this day I cannot believe people would pool together three grand just to get more monsters in a video game.
It's called the iPurse. I keep my phone inside it when I'm in the vehicle. As long as you don't undo the zipper, the cell phone cannot be used while driving. They also have more masculine variations known as the iManBag that even have special slots to hold the phone.
Since this was not a death penalty case, and the dude admitted guilt and waived his right to a jury trial as part of the plea bargain, no jury ever got involved.
Now, the accused in these cases can always demand a jury trial and claim innocence, at which point the state may try for the most aggressive charges in the hopes that something will stick. If the prosecution is going to go for the death penalty above the wishes of the victim's family (it does happen), the trial automatically goes to jury. The whole process gets dragged on for years and years.
We were over and done in a week. A painful, miserable week. But I didn't waste years of my life traveling back and forth to the city where my mother was killed for the trial. I probably would have lost my job. My sisters lived even farther away. Locking him up and throwing away the key without trying to get him killed in revenge allowed us to pick up the pieces and resume our own lives without becoming additional victims of that guy as well.
It would have cost the state about three million dollars to leverage a death penalty case against him. The jail he is in costs $30K/year to support an inmate. He's not going to be there a hundred years, so it's cheaper to keep him locked up than to try to kill him in revenge.
Actually, victim's relatives often don't want it either. My mother was murdered in 2004 and my sisters and I all agreed not to pursue to the death penalty because we don't believe in capital punishment. The state was relieved because those trials cost them several million dollars. The dude got 150 years and possibility of parole after 75 years served - that is, when he turns 115 years old. He's never going to live as a free man again. In the meantime, we were free to grieve and resume our lives, which is what our mother would have wanted.
Ironically, putting an inmate on death row and going through the process is far, far more expensive than simply incarcerating them for life. Since they usually have a public defender as a lawyer and it has to go through the appeals process many times, a criminal who is ultimately executed usually costs the state several million dollars. Whereas the cost of keeping them incarcerated is 20-50K a year depending on the state.
This is especially important if your homeowner's insurance covers the contents (which it ought to.) Take digital pictures of anything major of value you will need replaced. Appliances, television, computers, furniture, rare musical instruments, etc. Then store them online someplace. That way, when you go to file an insurance claim, you have evidence to back up the dollar value of the things you will need to fully rebuild. Otherwise they're just gonna cut you a check for a couple thousand in addition to the tax value of your house.
The ancestors of today's domesticated plants had to come from somewhere, right? They're not highly processed the way our carby-sweet ones are, but what is a grain but a tamed grass? You'd be surprised at the evidence of what the paleo folks did with such grasses - and what modern hunter-gatherers are still collecting from the wild.
I think "interested apathy" is a good term for what I feel. Star Wars my first serious fandom when I was a teenager (I kind of got into it during the hipster phase of the early 90s before it was cool again) . The Zahn Trilogy was brilliant, but after years of literary abuse from Kevin J Anderson I just kind of lost interest. I'm no longer in the fandom. I've moved on.
This is the equivalent of watching an ex-significant-other getting married, while you yourself got married to a much better person many years ago. You're happy for them, a little. You're sad because of what could have been - and also grateful you avoided it. But mostly, you just don't care any more.
And they stink to high hell, too. I can tell with a quick whiff if someone has rolled their own cig or is smoking from a box. I can detect hookah smoke or cigar smoke too, although those don't bother me the way boxed cigarettes do. Nowadays I cannot tell if someone is vaping unless they've got a flavored cartridge.
That's not quite true - we can actually study the dietary habits of the last remaining hunter-gatherer groups in the world today, and none of them eat significant amounts of meat. It's a high status food in those cultures, and not consumed daily or by everyone. What do they survive off? Plants and grains.
If their metabolism is higher, it's because they get more exercise in daily activities. Many people there do not have cars and rely on public transit or their own two feet for most of their travel. They have that option in large cities and even smaller ones because they're planned out better (and the train system kicks ass.) I lost about five pounds when I was in Tokyo for a week despite eating out every night because we had a mile walk to the train station, and walked our feet off everywhere else in town too.
As a former Charter customer, I have to say they are only slightly less evil and shitty as Comcast. There's a reason I went back to AT&T DSL. I have a very skinny pipe (officially 3 down and 1.5 up but closer to 0.75 down and 0.25 in reality) but the quality of service is decent and the Internet actually has close to the mythical 99% up time.
Whereas my friends who are still on Charter, since it can actually handle streaming, have their Internet service cut out regularly (about an hour or two once a week) and experience the QoS of a ham radio in an 18-wheeler.
The QoS on my connection is rock solid, which is why I use the DSL line instead of the local cable guys.
At a previous house, I noticed that our Internet connection would drop whenever a train went down the tracks a mile away. AT&T didn't believe me (nobody did) until I found a painting of the neighborhood from the 1880s that showed that the train terminal used to be at the end of the street. They had literally built the road on top of the old train tracks, and they were still connected to the modern tracks. Since the DSL node was on the edge of the road, it was juuuuuuuuust within reach of the electro-magnetic interference generated by the old tracks. The repair guy was pretty astonished when he bumped into the steel tracks while digging out the line.
The solution, once they finally confirmed that my problem was real, was twice as much insulation around the line. The connection never dropped again after that.
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Eh, my company had postings for at least 3-4 tech positions for our Montana data center in the last six months or so. They're not as numerous as they are for the big cities, but they exist.
It's so damn cold in the winter though. I got sent up to Brrrrville in December when there was a fresh foot of snow on top of all the old half-melted compact snow and I was very displeased at the 0F temperatures I endured.
Can't we comprormise and have MT be the home of the summer data center, and then have a winter data center down in Florida?
Most tapes are written and then rewritten on a weekly or monthly basis. The medical office that was using LTO would have a daily incremental backup and then a once a week full backup. The software would run a verification check on each tape and give us a warning when it determined one was degrading.
Tapes saved our ass when the motherboard blew out on their main server and took out the RAID to boot. We were able to retrieve the data from backup without any problem.
I don't know anyone who has finished Coil 2, Turn 5 (aka Turn 10) yet. There's your content only 5% can complete.
My first Titan EX attempt, about half the failures were my fault. Lately it's been everyone else that sucked. My free company still doesn't have enough at 50 for an entirely FC run. One or two more there should do it....
Same route I took. English undergrad, web programming/MIS master's degree. Now I do what I really wanted to do all along with the English degree, which is write documentation (along with various other duties as an analyst, many of which require writing in some fashion as well.)
I paid $129 for my phone cash up front from Metro PCS. My service plan was $45 til I added in wi-fi tethering to bring it to $55/month. (My husband uses it more than I do though.)
Like its spouse T-Mobile, I can't use MetroPCS outside of large cities, except for emergencies or text messages. But if I'm out in the boonies, then I'm traveling from point A to point B on the Interstate or doing primitive camping - and don't need to be using my cell phone anyway!
That's actually a good solution. One of the concerns police have is a criminal disarming them (or just making a grab for their weapon). This would ensure that only an officer actually gets to fire the gun if the situation warrants it. If a suspect snags it from them in am altercation, it's useless.
When the shell with a NASA bot (Toki) moved to Seraph, we simply pulled out of the Land Gods race and focused on {sea}, {sky}, Dynamis, ToAU, and Limbus instead. The NASA group didn't waste their time on the {sky} spawns and we always hit {sea} when they were doing Dynamis runs. They did gank our Xarcabard one go round.
The leaders got busted for gil-buying shortly before NASA went down, then the rest of the shell dissolved when it died. Most of them transferred servers since they were blacklisted from endgame on ours. Harmony restored.
I still play XI casually. I had led a Dynamis shell and finished Gjallarhorn then later on Dardaubla, so I still hop on a couple times a week to help the remnants of that old group out.
Square Enix still knows how to make a mean HNM type monster. I'm stuck on Titan Extreme on FFXIV. Unlike the old HNMs of FFXI, though, you don't have to compete with a hundred other people just for the opportunity to fight him. While there are still elusive open-world type HNMs with stupid spawn times (I've never even seen Odin or Behemoth), they are within open-access fights called FATES that anyone can join.
The downside of the PantsPockets(TM) is that you can still feel the tempting vibrations of the phone when it rings. The iManBag can be safely stored on the seat beside you, eliminating the temptation. Additionally, most PantsPockets(TM) do not come with a closure such as a snap or zipper.
It was the players who nicknamed it that, not the provider. Whoever it was sold an entire external server with a packet router on it that gave an entire linkshell (guild) of people the extra millisecond advantage needed to claim monsters first. The company sold the system for $3000 a pop, and only sold one per game server to ensure that the group using it would have no competition.
The reign of terror lasted about six months before SE finally figured out who was selling the NASA bot system and sent a pointed cease and desist letter. The programmer and designer of the system complied and all the servers were taken offline. Many of the users were ultimately banned.
To this day I cannot believe people would pool together three grand just to get more monsters in a video game.
It's called the iPurse. I keep my phone inside it when I'm in the vehicle. As long as you don't undo the zipper, the cell phone cannot be used while driving. They also have more masculine variations known as the iManBag that even have special slots to hold the phone.
Since this was not a death penalty case, and the dude admitted guilt and waived his right to a jury trial as part of the plea bargain, no jury ever got involved.
Now, the accused in these cases can always demand a jury trial and claim innocence, at which point the state may try for the most aggressive charges in the hopes that something will stick. If the prosecution is going to go for the death penalty above the wishes of the victim's family (it does happen), the trial automatically goes to jury. The whole process gets dragged on for years and years.
We were over and done in a week. A painful, miserable week. But I didn't waste years of my life traveling back and forth to the city where my mother was killed for the trial. I probably would have lost my job. My sisters lived even farther away. Locking him up and throwing away the key without trying to get him killed in revenge allowed us to pick up the pieces and resume our own lives without becoming additional victims of that guy as well.
It would have cost the state about three million dollars to leverage a death penalty case against him. The jail he is in costs $30K/year to support an inmate. He's not going to be there a hundred years, so it's cheaper to keep him locked up than to try to kill him in revenge.
Actually, victim's relatives often don't want it either. My mother was murdered in 2004 and my sisters and I all agreed not to pursue to the death penalty because we don't believe in capital punishment. The state was relieved because those trials cost them several million dollars. The dude got 150 years and possibility of parole after 75 years served - that is, when he turns 115 years old. He's never going to live as a free man again. In the meantime, we were free to grieve and resume our lives, which is what our mother would have wanted.
I mentioned this in another comment in this thread, but death row costs a state more than incarceration for life, due to all the automatic appeals.
Ironically, putting an inmate on death row and going through the process is far, far more expensive than simply incarcerating them for life. Since they usually have a public defender as a lawyer and it has to go through the appeals process many times, a criminal who is ultimately executed usually costs the state several million dollars. Whereas the cost of keeping them incarcerated is 20-50K a year depending on the state.
This is especially important if your homeowner's insurance covers the contents (which it ought to.) Take digital pictures of anything major of value you will need replaced. Appliances, television, computers, furniture, rare musical instruments, etc. Then store them online someplace. That way, when you go to file an insurance claim, you have evidence to back up the dollar value of the things you will need to fully rebuild. Otherwise they're just gonna cut you a check for a couple thousand in addition to the tax value of your house.
The ancestors of today's domesticated plants had to come from somewhere, right? They're not highly processed the way our carby-sweet ones are, but what is a grain but a tamed grass? You'd be surprised at the evidence of what the paleo folks did with such grasses - and what modern hunter-gatherers are still collecting from the wild.
I think "interested apathy" is a good term for what I feel. Star Wars my first serious fandom when I was a teenager (I kind of got into it during the hipster phase of the early 90s before it was cool again) . The Zahn Trilogy was brilliant, but after years of literary abuse from Kevin J Anderson I just kind of lost interest. I'm no longer in the fandom. I've moved on.
This is the equivalent of watching an ex-significant-other getting married, while you yourself got married to a much better person many years ago. You're happy for them, a little. You're sad because of what could have been - and also grateful you avoided it. But mostly, you just don't care any more.
And they stink to high hell, too. I can tell with a quick whiff if someone has rolled their own cig or is smoking from a box. I can detect hookah smoke or cigar smoke too, although those don't bother me the way boxed cigarettes do. Nowadays I cannot tell if someone is vaping unless they've got a flavored cartridge.
That's not quite true - we can actually study the dietary habits of the last remaining hunter-gatherer groups in the world today, and none of them eat significant amounts of meat. It's a high status food in those cultures, and not consumed daily or by everyone. What do they survive off? Plants and grains.
If their metabolism is higher, it's because they get more exercise in daily activities. Many people there do not have cars and rely on public transit or their own two feet for most of their travel. They have that option in large cities and even smaller ones because they're planned out better (and the train system kicks ass.) I lost about five pounds when I was in Tokyo for a week despite eating out every night because we had a mile walk to the train station, and walked our feet off everywhere else in town too.
As a former Charter customer, I have to say they are only slightly less evil and shitty as Comcast. There's a reason I went back to AT&T DSL. I have a very skinny pipe (officially 3 down and 1.5 up but closer to 0.75 down and 0.25 in reality) but the quality of service is decent and the Internet actually has close to the mythical 99% up time.
Whereas my friends who are still on Charter, since it can actually handle streaming, have their Internet service cut out regularly (about an hour or two once a week) and experience the QoS of a ham radio in an 18-wheeler.
The QoS on my connection is rock solid, which is why I use the DSL line instead of the local cable guys.
At a previous house, I noticed that our Internet connection would drop whenever a train went down the tracks a mile away. AT&T didn't believe me (nobody did) until I found a painting of the neighborhood from the 1880s that showed that the train terminal used to be at the end of the street. They had literally built the road on top of the old train tracks, and they were still connected to the modern tracks. Since the DSL node was on the edge of the road, it was juuuuuuuuust within reach of the electro-magnetic interference generated by the old tracks. The repair guy was pretty astonished when he bumped into the steel tracks while digging out the line.
The solution, once they finally confirmed that my problem was real, was twice as much insulation around the line. The connection never dropped again after that.