The tech guys had a big meter with numbers on it that seemed to also be "dancing" in time with the music. Mostly wobbling between 110 and 118 with some fractions in between. I had earplugs in, but after a while I realized it was ensuring that the decibels never got above 120, the point at which permanent hearing loss occurs.
Heh, I actually know this feeling. There's something satisfying in running a dumb XP/2003 defrag on an older system and watching the hard drive detangle itself. Or hitting the build button and watching Ant dutifully shuffle everything into place.
The reason you got a 0 was because the topics are pre-assigned, and unless you wrote on the given topic, of course they gave you a zilch. If you arbitrarily "decided" to write whatever the hell you wanted... then yeah, you earned a zero. The most critical part of speed writing is knowing how to BS your way through whatever you are supposed to discuss.
It's certainly high on the list, but for an educated woman who has earning potential of her own and a career, it's not a deal breaker. I personally have no interest in a deadbeat who flips burgers for a living. I married a guy who was working on his PhD and managed to get a job as a professor. We're not rich by any means, but we both do well enough to be happy. And that's all I wanted.
Trust me, this is a battle I fight every day. The doctors are aware of HIPAA, of course, but they don't understand why we can't allow them to stream X-Rays straight to their personal iPads, either.
RIM's major mistake was thinking that their "best security" offering would keep business customers locked in. Guess what? Smaller businesses don't give a crap about security, especially the clients I support - medical offices. The doctors just want the latest and greatest shiny thing, security be damned. We finally decommissioned the Blackberry server last year because only one person was still using a Blackberry. His office told him to get an iPhone.
Ding ding ding! Typing this from a ThinkPad right now. I picked it from all its competitors because it has a standard IBM layout, with a keypad and all. No chiclet keys here. The mouse trackpad is a solid piece integrated with the case. This laptop has survived dropping once, accidental thumps more times than I can count, frequent airplane trips, and it's never done anything to make me angry - which is more than I can say for any other piece of electronics I've ever owned.
I had an AWS instance that just wouldn't die. Turns out it had some EBS function on the image that caused the instance to zombie itself and come back from the dead every time I killed it - wouldn't shut off permanently til the EBS thing was killed first. Very annoying.
If Janitor Monkey can do this automatically, it'll save some admins a lot of headaches - and money.
Yeah, sorry, even the profs on Macs at universities are using PP. I'm sure some professors in the CS and engineering departments are using Linux and Libre Office, but I never saw any of them in any of my departments.
Books are often not set by the professors, but by the institutions, and they like to change books every few years. So that first year, the professor has to read the whole textbook prior to the semester beginning to determine what to use during the class, then build tests and power points/lectures on the materials included in the department-wide criteria used for the class.
And then some pinhead in administration decides it's time to change textbooks to something that suits their particular ideology or viewpoint better (or more likely, was authored by a buddy), so the prof gets to do it all again the next year. Some material can be recycled - previous book chapters are frantically photocopied and become "supplemental reading" - but if the criteria for the class changes, the entire previous class's work can be shot.
Also, that assumes a professor is teaching the same classes every year. If someone in the department is out sick or goes on maternity leave or sabbatical, the rest of the department will have to divvy up their classes to ensure everything ends up taught.
You're crazy if you think the job has no deadlines. There are many hard and fast days where stuff begins and ends - semester start, midterm, and semester end, to begin with - as well as deadlines for any paper submissions for publication. At the end of the semester, grades are due at a specific date and time, and if you haven't turned them in by that deadline which is set by the institute, you're in serious trouble.
It just finished alpha testing and is going into beta testing next month. Alpha testers are under NDA still but the leaked info has been positive - namely, the underlying game engine problems are fixed and the graphics are running on proper DX11 now. The official test videos SE has released show as much. Relaunch is expected in late spring or early summer - they're giving themselves upwards of four to five months for a multi-phase beta test this go round, with a month between phases to fix any reported bugs.
The Kinect has shown that gestures are a completely useful and acceptable means of input. If they have any technology similar, then we'll be making sign language - esque gestures to interact with the glasses.
Nope. ISPs are given a virtual monopoly on their method of delivery. We have AT&T DSL and that's all we can get through the phone lines. We had tried Charter cable, but their data cap is the same at 150 GB, and their QoS was ten times worse and the bill was twenty dollars more.
We've talked about going to a business grade fiber connection at $200/month, but that's only on the table if one of us has a true telecommuting job. As it is, our offices are 15 minutes away and neither of us work enough from home to justify it.
We start approaching our monthly ISP imposed data cap of 150 GB just from watching Netflix. One room mate nearly busted us through when she started watching the new Dr. Who series, beginning from the first David Tennant episode on up.
If I remember right, Netflix currently accounts for about one third of all total Internet data usage.
Actually, that's a great idea. I'd set my "send me a personal PM even if I don't know you" cost at twenty bucks. If someone is willing to give FB twenty dollars to get in touch with me, they might actually be someone I want to talk with.
That's a quick way to get your email address blacklisted by ISPs. We had to wrestle with one of our clients who had such a 300+ person mailing list, and they wouldn't listen when we warned them that they were going to get their IP address blacklisted... Sure enough, that happened, and spawned a two month saga of trying to get a new, clean static IP address. We finally had to put a hard cap of 50 recipients inside Exchange to get them to quit it.
You don't even need a website to get a managed email list. There are plenty of mail list companies that will do it for a buck or two a month.
If a business isn't using a private email solution, they're doing it wrong. Doesn't matter if it's internal Exchange, private Google Apps, MailChimp lists, or some solution from a hosted ISP. A business that's using a generic Hotmail account to send stuff to their customers deserves to be charged for spamming, since they're abusing a public service that was never intended for business use.
The suggestion was to charge a tenth of a penny per email. For regular folks who email, that works up to less than a penny per day. (No fees for business emails from private or hosted exchange servers, of course.) This would discourage spam emails and mass marketings from public accounts (although it wouldn't stop spam from zombie email accounts on private domains.)
A dollar per message should be enough to discourage irresponsible spamming.
Around here, you only get unemployment insurance paid under the following conditions: 1. You worked at least 30 hours a week for six months prior at a single job 2. You lost your job "through no fault of your own" - meaning you weren't fired for smoking a joint on the property or something. So part time, short term employees who did a terrible job for the two weeks they worked don't qualify.
The one time I collected unemployment insurance, I had been downsized from a full time salaried position as management in a call center. I was the first of about a dozen management times to be cut over the next year, and then they laid off half the staff because they lost the lease on the giant warehouse they were in and had to squish into an old Winn Dixie grocery story instead. It took me five months to find a comparable position, but that wasn't for want of trying - I applied to nearly a thousand jobs over those five months, and had interviews for at most a dozen.
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That's why I was wearing decibel reducing earphones.
The tech guys had a big meter with numbers on it that seemed to also be "dancing" in time with the music. Mostly wobbling between 110 and 118 with some fractions in between. I had earplugs in, but after a while I realized it was ensuring that the decibels never got above 120, the point at which permanent hearing loss occurs.
Heh, I actually know this feeling. There's something satisfying in running a dumb XP/2003 defrag on an older system and watching the hard drive detangle itself. Or hitting the build button and watching Ant dutifully shuffle everything into place.
The reason you got a 0 was because the topics are pre-assigned, and unless you wrote on the given topic, of course they gave you a zilch. If you arbitrarily "decided" to write whatever the hell you wanted... then yeah, you earned a zero. The most critical part of speed writing is knowing how to BS your way through whatever you are supposed to discuss.
Give them a call first - they'll appreciate that more than the police barging on their door if there's nothing actually wrong.
It's certainly high on the list, but for an educated woman who has earning potential of her own and a career, it's not a deal breaker. I personally have no interest in a deadbeat who flips burgers for a living. I married a guy who was working on his PhD and managed to get a job as a professor. We're not rich by any means, but we both do well enough to be happy. And that's all I wanted.
Trust me, this is a battle I fight every day. The doctors are aware of HIPAA, of course, but they don't understand why we can't allow them to stream X-Rays straight to their personal iPads, either.
Well, not really. Consoles have built in wireless these days. I don't have to think about putting my PS3 online - it's online by default.
RIM's major mistake was thinking that their "best security" offering would keep business customers locked in. Guess what? Smaller businesses don't give a crap about security, especially the clients I support - medical offices. The doctors just want the latest and greatest shiny thing, security be damned. We finally decommissioned the Blackberry server last year because only one person was still using a Blackberry. His office told him to get an iPhone.
Ding ding ding! Typing this from a ThinkPad right now. I picked it from all its competitors because it has a standard IBM layout, with a keypad and all. No chiclet keys here. The mouse trackpad is a solid piece integrated with the case. This laptop has survived dropping once, accidental thumps more times than I can count, frequent airplane trips, and it's never done anything to make me angry - which is more than I can say for any other piece of electronics I've ever owned.
I had an AWS instance that just wouldn't die. Turns out it had some EBS function on the image that caused the instance to zombie itself and come back from the dead every time I killed it - wouldn't shut off permanently til the EBS thing was killed first. Very annoying.
If Janitor Monkey can do this automatically, it'll save some admins a lot of headaches - and money.
Yeah, sorry, even the profs on Macs at universities are using PP. I'm sure some professors in the CS and engineering departments are using Linux and Libre Office, but I never saw any of them in any of my departments.
Books are often not set by the professors, but by the institutions, and they like to change books every few years. So that first year, the professor has to read the whole textbook prior to the semester beginning to determine what to use during the class, then build tests and power points/lectures on the materials included in the department-wide criteria used for the class.
And then some pinhead in administration decides it's time to change textbooks to something that suits their particular ideology or viewpoint better (or more likely, was authored by a buddy), so the prof gets to do it all again the next year. Some material can be recycled - previous book chapters are frantically photocopied and become "supplemental reading" - but if the criteria for the class changes, the entire previous class's work can be shot.
Also, that assumes a professor is teaching the same classes every year. If someone in the department is out sick or goes on maternity leave or sabbatical, the rest of the department will have to divvy up their classes to ensure everything ends up taught.
You're crazy if you think the job has no deadlines. There are many hard and fast days where stuff begins and ends - semester start, midterm, and semester end, to begin with - as well as deadlines for any paper submissions for publication. At the end of the semester, grades are due at a specific date and time, and if you haven't turned them in by that deadline which is set by the institute, you're in serious trouble.
It just finished alpha testing and is going into beta testing next month. Alpha testers are under NDA still but the leaked info has been positive - namely, the underlying game engine problems are fixed and the graphics are running on proper DX11 now. The official test videos SE has released show as much. Relaunch is expected in late spring or early summer - they're giving themselves upwards of four to five months for a multi-phase beta test this go round, with a month between phases to fix any reported bugs.
The Kinect has shown that gestures are a completely useful and acceptable means of input. If they have any technology similar, then we'll be making sign language - esque gestures to interact with the glasses.
Nope. ISPs are given a virtual monopoly on their method of delivery. We have AT&T DSL and that's all we can get through the phone lines. We had tried Charter cable, but their data cap is the same at 150 GB, and their QoS was ten times worse and the bill was twenty dollars more.
We've talked about going to a business grade fiber connection at $200/month, but that's only on the table if one of us has a true telecommuting job. As it is, our offices are 15 minutes away and neither of us work enough from home to justify it.
We start approaching our monthly ISP imposed data cap of 150 GB just from watching Netflix. One room mate nearly busted us through when she started watching the new Dr. Who series, beginning from the first David Tennant episode on up.
If I remember right, Netflix currently accounts for about one third of all total Internet data usage.
They pay a lot less per person than $1.
Actually, that's a great idea. I'd set my "send me a personal PM even if I don't know you" cost at twenty bucks. If someone is willing to give FB twenty dollars to get in touch with me, they might actually be someone I want to talk with.
That's a quick way to get your email address blacklisted by ISPs. We had to wrestle with one of our clients who had such a 300+ person mailing list, and they wouldn't listen when we warned them that they were going to get their IP address blacklisted... Sure enough, that happened, and spawned a two month saga of trying to get a new, clean static IP address. We finally had to put a hard cap of 50 recipients inside Exchange to get them to quit it.
You don't even need a website to get a managed email list. There are plenty of mail list companies that will do it for a buck or two a month.
There's a guarantee it'll get delivered, but no guarantee that anyone will respond. It's just another form of direct marketing.
If a business isn't using a private email solution, they're doing it wrong. Doesn't matter if it's internal Exchange, private Google Apps, MailChimp lists, or some solution from a hosted ISP. A business that's using a generic Hotmail account to send stuff to their customers deserves to be charged for spamming, since they're abusing a public service that was never intended for business use.
The suggestion was to charge a tenth of a penny per email. For regular folks who email, that works up to less than a penny per day. (No fees for business emails from private or hosted exchange servers, of course.) This would discourage spam emails and mass marketings from public accounts (although it wouldn't stop spam from zombie email accounts on private domains.)
A dollar per message should be enough to discourage irresponsible spamming.
Around here, you only get unemployment insurance paid under the following conditions: 1. You worked at least 30 hours a week for six months prior at a single job 2. You lost your job "through no fault of your own" - meaning you weren't fired for smoking a joint on the property or something. So part time, short term employees who did a terrible job for the two weeks they worked don't qualify.
The one time I collected unemployment insurance, I had been downsized from a full time salaried position as management in a call center. I was the first of about a dozen management times to be cut over the next year, and then they laid off half the staff because they lost the lease on the giant warehouse they were in and had to squish into an old Winn Dixie grocery story instead. It took me five months to find a comparable position, but that wasn't for want of trying - I applied to nearly a thousand jobs over those five months, and had interviews for at most a dozen.