One side believes the other side supports infanticide because of abortion rights. The other side thinks that side supports inhumane torture because of the death penalty and how it is carried out. When both sides consider the other side to be full of a bunch of killers, it's hard to have civil discourse.
What this may do is surprise a lot of people, who are actually secret liberals but pretend to be right-wing to avoid confrontations. (My husband does this with his parents. They're as tea party as it comes.) If people see they're not so alone, maybe they won't be so ashamed... Then again, if they see a wall of solid red around them, maybe they'll move.
We recently had to move a client over to IPv6 faster than intended because we couldn't get a block of clean IPv4 static addresses from the ISP. That problem is only going to get worse over time.
I can confirm that roof mounted solar water works, and works well. We installed a system a year ago back, and our power bill went down by a third and has stayed at that level pretty consistently. If full solar isn't an option due to cost, a solar water system is possibly in reach. Our system will have paid for itself by the end of 2014.
I believe it was MIT who was working on solar cells that could be stapled or nailed on a roof like shingles, with a special semiconducting tar binder that would turn the entire roof into a giant solar cell.
Well, when the US tries to encourage local companies and startups to take advantage of new technologies, and it backfires, then the government gets blamed (see the Solyndra kerfluffle.) Can't win.
Actually, the original building at Cape Canaveral in which the Saturn V was built was repurposed for the space shuttle (which took up a fraction of the space.) It can easily be repurposed again.
When I first started at my current job, I was given a refreshly re-imaged PC, but I had to clean out my predecessor's desk, as he was fired about an hour after I was hired. (Not my fault - he was two hours late with no notice.) I put everything in a box, including the Playboy calendar he had stashed in a bottom drawer, and a few other rather questionable things. After my new boss saw the contents of the box, he ordered me a new desk, too.
My Samsung 40" television looks exactly like a 40" Sony television. My LG washing machine and dryer looks suspiciously similar to a washing machine and dryer from Kenmore. And my Starbucks coffee tureen is the spitting image of the one I have from Seattle's Best! When you are talking about devices that perform similar tasks, they are going to look alike.
There's only so many ways to build a computer, and when you're trying to stuff as many electronics in a slender LCD screen as you can, it's probably going to look like a plastic slab.
Incorrect. Harassment is in the eye of the beholder, as any formal training system will warn you. If a female employee feels she is being harassed by someone even just one level in authority over her, she has the right to report it, even if the guy says he was was "just joking." It also works in reverse - if a woman in authority makes unwanted advances on a subordinate male, he is also well within his rights to report it. If nothing comes from the report, and the harassment continues, both are within their rights to sue for hostile workplace environment.
This is one place where the gray areas that existed in previous decades are no longer gray, but black and white. It has to be taken seriously, because if it's not, the entire business is in jeopardy.
Our small office is actually almost half female these days. Three of us are techs, two are admins. We have a comfortable relationship with the guys because we're all geeks, and our geekiness trumps any awkwardness from male/female interactions. Light teasing is permitted, but personal relationship discussions are off limits. We generally try to keep all our jokes strictly to IT, nerdliness, and our clients' baffling behavior. We all also wear the same uniform, so the only personal expression the ladies get is earrings and nail polish. (No skirts or heels allowed.) This dress code prevents a lot of harassment, I think. (I know I wouldn't want to have to drag patch cables across the floor in a skirt...)
I don't use Samsung products because they borrowed Apple's intellectual property without permission. I use Samsung products because they are not Apple iOS products. If it wasn't Apple, it'd be HTC, LG, or any other provider of Android based hardware. Your suing Samsung into oblivion and killing market choice is not going to endear me to your products in the future. Frankly, I'd rather just do without. No one needs a tablet.
Some of the personalities still run great daytime shows. I love 5 Ingredient Fix with Claire Robinson, and Cooking for Real with Sunny Anderson. Both of them like to experiment with their grandmothers' recipes, and I've learned a ton of tricks involving bacon grease as a flavoring agent (sounds nasty, tastes awesome.) I'd pay five bucks a month for access to those two shows alone.
Google Plus's chat feature has rudimentary desktop screening, and is just more convenient than Skype for small group projects. Select a circle, call 'em all up, and get to work. Facebook chat is better for showing the chat history. Although, I still think I prefer good old fashioned BBS systems for regular communication. Keeping conversations locked into tidy (or not so tidy) threads appeals to my OCD side.
I'm willing to bet that the reason they haven't given the GAO the details of their data centers and usage is because they don't actually know. Each little department in the agency has their IT guys, but the agency has no central record of who is doing what with their IT budget. If they were smart, they immediately hired an outside consultant team to start taking inventory, but we're talking about unraveling thousands of computers and servers and untangling networks that have been in place for decades. Even with a dedicated project team, that could take months, and I don't think anyone would dedicate a project team to this task. Likely, it's one poor overwhelmed soul from the agency who is doing it with the dreaded feeling that he's eventually going to lose his own job once it's known he's redundant.
At the time, I bought it because it was the cheapest one I could buy with a standard keyboard layout, but I am retroactively pleased with that decision.
The more I hear about these sophisticated spying viruses with the cute names, the more I imagine them as the digital equivalent of James Bond, little tuxedos and all. "My name is Bond. James Bond.zip. I'm an international attachment of mystery."
These were attenuated viruses, which are weakened but not outright killed. Those are also sometimes used in humans. It's more effective than viruses that have been completely killed and obliterated into their marker proteins.
He's one of the guys that proved Apple isn't so unhackable and "immune to viruses" after all. He does have a point that NFC technology is too new to know whether it's safe, and honestly, I'm glad someone like him is on the case to determine just how exploitable it is. I've already had my bank account cleaned out once because of a hack into a store's debit card system.
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One side believes the other side supports infanticide because of abortion rights. The other side thinks that side supports inhumane torture because of the death penalty and how it is carried out. When both sides consider the other side to be full of a bunch of killers, it's hard to have civil discourse.
What this may do is surprise a lot of people, who are actually secret liberals but pretend to be right-wing to avoid confrontations. (My husband does this with his parents. They're as tea party as it comes.) If people see they're not so alone, maybe they won't be so ashamed... Then again, if they see a wall of solid red around them, maybe they'll move.
We recently had to move a client over to IPv6 faster than intended because we couldn't get a block of clean IPv4 static addresses from the ISP. That problem is only going to get worse over time.
I can confirm that roof mounted solar water works, and works well. We installed a system a year ago back, and our power bill went down by a third and has stayed at that level pretty consistently. If full solar isn't an option due to cost, a solar water system is possibly in reach. Our system will have paid for itself by the end of 2014.
Now, they need to make one with a giant scythe and bat wings so we can have Deathscythe, and one with angel wings for Wing Zero. /nerd
I believe it was MIT who was working on solar cells that could be stapled or nailed on a roof like shingles, with a special semiconducting tar binder that would turn the entire roof into a giant solar cell.
Well, when the US tries to encourage local companies and startups to take advantage of new technologies, and it backfires, then the government gets blamed (see the Solyndra kerfluffle.) Can't win.
for once, anyway.
Actually, the original building at Cape Canaveral in which the Saturn V was built was repurposed for the space shuttle (which took up a fraction of the space.) It can easily be repurposed again.
If your site is using a cloud app these days, as long as the machine can run Chrome, it's still good.
When I first started at my current job, I was given a refreshly re-imaged PC, but I had to clean out my predecessor's desk, as he was fired about an hour after I was hired. (Not my fault - he was two hours late with no notice.) I put everything in a box, including the Playboy calendar he had stashed in a bottom drawer, and a few other rather questionable things. After my new boss saw the contents of the box, he ordered me a new desk, too.
It also looks like ones I've seen from Peets, from Jittery Joes, and from McDonalds. My point is that there's only so many ways to make a coffee mug.
My Samsung 40" television looks exactly like a 40" Sony television. My LG washing machine and dryer looks suspiciously similar to a washing machine and dryer from Kenmore. And my Starbucks coffee tureen is the spitting image of the one I have from Seattle's Best! When you are talking about devices that perform similar tasks, they are going to look alike.
There's only so many ways to build a computer, and when you're trying to stuff as many electronics in a slender LCD screen as you can, it's probably going to look like a plastic slab.
Incorrect. Harassment is in the eye of the beholder, as any formal training system will warn you. If a female employee feels she is being harassed by someone even just one level in authority over her, she has the right to report it, even if the guy says he was was "just joking." It also works in reverse - if a woman in authority makes unwanted advances on a subordinate male, he is also well within his rights to report it. If nothing comes from the report, and the harassment continues, both are within their rights to sue for hostile workplace environment.
This is one place where the gray areas that existed in previous decades are no longer gray, but black and white. It has to be taken seriously, because if it's not, the entire business is in jeopardy.
Our small office is actually almost half female these days. Three of us are techs, two are admins. We have a comfortable relationship with the guys because we're all geeks, and our geekiness trumps any awkwardness from male/female interactions. Light teasing is permitted, but personal relationship discussions are off limits. We generally try to keep all our jokes strictly to IT, nerdliness, and our clients' baffling behavior. We all also wear the same uniform, so the only personal expression the ladies get is earrings and nail polish. (No skirts or heels allowed.) This dress code prevents a lot of harassment, I think. (I know I wouldn't want to have to drag patch cables across the floor in a skirt...)
I don't use Samsung products because they borrowed Apple's intellectual property without permission. I use Samsung products because they are not Apple iOS products. If it wasn't Apple, it'd be HTC, LG, or any other provider of Android based hardware. Your suing Samsung into oblivion and killing market choice is not going to endear me to your products in the future. Frankly, I'd rather just do without. No one needs a tablet.
Any domesticated cat can live up to 25 years, but it's hit or miss. The odds are low, though.
Some of the personalities still run great daytime shows. I love 5 Ingredient Fix with Claire Robinson, and Cooking for Real with Sunny Anderson. Both of them like to experiment with their grandmothers' recipes, and I've learned a ton of tricks involving bacon grease as a flavoring agent (sounds nasty, tastes awesome.) I'd pay five bucks a month for access to those two shows alone.
Google Plus's chat feature has rudimentary desktop screening, and is just more convenient than Skype for small group projects. Select a circle, call 'em all up, and get to work. Facebook chat is better for showing the chat history. Although, I still think I prefer good old fashioned BBS systems for regular communication. Keeping conversations locked into tidy (or not so tidy) threads appeals to my OCD side.
I'm willing to bet that the reason they haven't given the GAO the details of their data centers and usage is because they don't actually know. Each little department in the agency has their IT guys, but the agency has no central record of who is doing what with their IT budget. If they were smart, they immediately hired an outside consultant team to start taking inventory, but we're talking about unraveling thousands of computers and servers and untangling networks that have been in place for decades. Even with a dedicated project team, that could take months, and I don't think anyone would dedicate a project team to this task. Likely, it's one poor overwhelmed soul from the agency who is doing it with the dreaded feeling that he's eventually going to lose his own job once it's known he's redundant.
At the time, I bought it because it was the cheapest one I could buy with a standard keyboard layout, but I am retroactively pleased with that decision.
The more I hear about these sophisticated spying viruses with the cute names, the more I imagine them as the digital equivalent of James Bond, little tuxedos and all. "My name is Bond. James Bond.zip. I'm an international attachment of mystery."
These were attenuated viruses, which are weakened but not outright killed. Those are also sometimes used in humans. It's more effective than viruses that have been completely killed and obliterated into their marker proteins.
The migraine test is the only true test for all 3D viewing technology.
He's one of the guys that proved Apple isn't so unhackable and "immune to viruses" after all. He does have a point that NFC technology is too new to know whether it's safe, and honestly, I'm glad someone like him is on the case to determine just how exploitable it is. I've already had my bank account cleaned out once because of a hack into a store's debit card system.