That's us. We don't have cable or any means of getting broadcast free stuff either. Instead, the 40" flat screen is a monitor for one of the computers, a monitor for one of the laptops, or the head for the PS3. So while we technically have one television in the house, we don't use it for traditional TV viewing. (On the other hand, we have 5-6 computers and at least two phones capable of viewing Netflix in the house as well.)
This. We have a big blue "recycle" bin and all the stuff with a triangle goes into to. The rest of the sorting is handled by a processing facility. I don't think it'd be too difficult to add a third green bin for compostable stuff.
The issue is that people feel compelled to use their shiny new coupon RIGHT THIS MINUTE even though the expiration date of most Groupons is not until six months or a year after it is purchased. Many Groupons never get redeemed at all - we bought my sister in law and her husband 2 rounds of gold at a local golf course for Christmas last year, with the added promise that we'd watch their kids for the day while they had some adult time. Things never worked out and their Groupon expired, unused. We tend to hoarde our Groupons for at least a month before we use them, because we only eat out once a week and we get so many restaurant coupons from so many places.
Businesses also need to be aware of what industry they're in. A local winery offered half off wine tastings for groups ranging from 2-10. We paid $10 for a tasting for a group of four, and those four people then dropped another $100 on the wine we liked. The owner of the winery said that the Groupon deal was definitely a net favorable for him because usually the folks taking advantage of it were wine aficianados in the first place and were probably going to buy something else.
One slip of the mouse and the thing you meant to mark as "informative" is unfortunately marked as "redundant" instead. I've only done it once out of the hundreds of mod points I've handed out, but I am going to feel guilty about that for a long time. The only known workaround for this is posting in the thread, nullifying all your moderation for that thread, but if it was the fifth post you've modded you don't always want to take back the first four... If Google has a means of fixing that, then maybe it's an improvement. As it stands, to me the moderation here is the best we're going to get. Like democracy, it's a terrible form of goverment and never really works, but it's still better than any other system anyone has come up with.
Put your fingerprints all over everything you do and the accusations of invisibility will disappear. No one can argue that you're not pulling your weight if you have documentation and change logs with your name all over them.
I believe the article is referring to major hardware replacements, stress testing, etc. But there is other preventative or even detective work that needs to be done in data centers large and small that have nothing to do with equipment. You can't just blithely assume that things are always going to work as they are supposed to work. One time, we discovered that the camera server for one of our clients had stopped recording for no good reason, and upon closer inspection discovered that the hard drive failed and we had no alert system in place since it wasn't a "real" server but just a heavy duty XP machine. After that blunder, I was asked to check on all the cameras servers once a week and make sure I could actually open up and view recordings from days past. This is a preventative action, but not really a maintenance one.
I have no idea what you are talking about. Some background explanation is in order if you are going to discuss something serious enough to warrant lawsuits.
It's actually the same at many US public colleges. I had to provide proof of immunization to attend my undergraduate institution, then nine years later I had to get a booster shot to attend graduate school there. They had my old records so I didn't have to get any do-overs, but they pointed out that it had been 20 years since I had a TB shot and it was in my best interest to get the TDaP. There are ways to opt out - if a "religious leader" signs the immunization explaining its against your religion, or something like that, with an attached letter from said religious leader explaining why, but at that point the hassle is high you might as well just go to the county health department and get the shots over with.
Yep. They've got him until 2014, and he really needs to get a new edition out since it's an IT textbook and our current edition is already 2 years out of date. That's the other reason he wants to release it in eBook format: He can easily release a new edition each year that way, and just update the textbook as new stuff comes up through the school year. As it is, he had to send us a PDF of the "new" chapter 17 since so much had changed.
This is the same tack that Crunchy Roll took with anime. Subtitled anime piracy has slowed down a good bit, because people will willingly watch streaming high quality subs that are immediately available legally on Crunchy Roll, and not download them because they only wanted to watch the episode once. Crunchy Roll actually brokered a deal with animation studios to acquire the episode a week ahead of time and churn out a good, quality fansub in that period. Most fans will happily watch a short ad (hell, sometimes they include the original Japanese commercials for the audience) and then their 20 minutes of imported cartoons, and then buy the DVD a year later when the slow-as-a-whale distribution studios release it locally (dubbed.) Everyone wins, and piracy is greatly reduced.
My database professor has said he wants to move entirely to a modular eText format, but his publisher (one of the big academic guys) is the one resisting the change. His textbook is $150 brand new, $120 used, and he said he'd really like the the ebook to be a third to half of that price. That's cash that the publisher, not him, will lose out on, since his royalties are significantly less than $50.
This is the value I realized I am getting out of my master's degree. It's not the classes that are worth the $5K a semester tuition price, but the networking. Every other class has a guest lecture from someone in the industry, CEOs of companies to specialists to CIOs to everything under the sun... the movers and shakers of the IT world in Atlanta. I could have learned as much or more in online only classes, but my linked in contact list would be a hell of a lot shorter.
The Ivy league funding only applies to people who are graduating from top public schools at the top of their class. The valedictorian at my high school got a "free ride" at Harvard - $60K a year in tuition assistance plus a few other bonuses. Why? She had a 1600 on the SAT, spoke three languages, played the violin at the professional level at 18, and her dad was merely a sergeant in the Army. Unfortunately, we don't pay our soldiers quite enough to afford Ivy League educations for their kids...
Hah! The only help I got from my parents for college applications was a signature verifying I lived where I claimed (along with a copy of the power bill.) My mother's view on it was that if I couldn't handle a simple ten page form on my own, I wasn't going to be able to handle college either.
The issue is that IT is such a broad field that specialists in CS find themselves confronted with jobs that aren't really that related to what they learned how to do. My graduate program deliberately went after folks who DIDN'T have their undergraduate degrees in CS, because different backgrounds will bring in more well rounded perspectives to teams. Since most IT projects are done in groups (no one codes in a vacuum) you also need people who can think creatively, who can write English well, or who can think in terms of customer interactions. "Elite" CS programs at colleges crank out excellent coders and engineers, but that doesn't always mean they'll be good project members later on later on.
The initial snapshot of a cloud based backup takes about 24 hours to run, but the incrementals run for 2-3 hours overnight since they are so much smaller. If you are taking a full backup to the cloud every night, then yes, a given network will probably be far too slow. But for a proper incremental backup system that connects to the cloud for a third layer of backups, even a crappy DSL connection is enough.
The issue, addressed in an earlier comment, is that there is no other existing equipment that can test for this sort of thing. Until someone gets a grant to build a similar test lab on the other side of the world, w don't get anything else to go by.
It's one giant umbrella. It's a field, not a career. Just like people work in the "medical industry" or the "financial area" - not all of them are doctors or mortgage brokers. So we work in "IT" but we're coders, hardware gurus, systems analysts, technical writers, managers, networkers, with even some random creative design and teachers thrown in the mix because the umbrella is getting larger every day.
There are two options: For the long term contamination that will be around for decades, the best thing to do is plant trees (sourgum trees have been proven to work.) The trees will pull the radioactive matter into their tissue, and keep it locked away safely for the remainder of the tree's life For the shorter term contaminants with brief half-lives, mustard plants (annuals) are preferred. If necessary, they can be "harvested" and stored in nuclear waste facilities until they're clean. The most important thing, however, is to get the radioactivity out of the soil and thus out of the groundwater supply. When the material is in a perennial plant, it's bound and the rate of release into the air and soil is dramatically reduced. In the case of non-radioactive materials, many of the soaked up materials are chemically altered by the plant into a much less harmful form, so that even if it is an annual that biodegrades, the material returned to the soil is in a less dangerous form.
Although the land won't be suitable for farming for many years, botanists already know how to accelerate the cleanup by using plants that soak up radiation and contamination like sponges (phytoremediation.) Such contamination studies have been done at several major universities (including my own local one, which cleaned up an area that had been contaminated with non radioactive mercury within one year.) The question is whether Japan will swallow its pride and have its farmland turned into short term radioactive gardens.
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That's us. We don't have cable or any means of getting broadcast free stuff either. Instead, the 40" flat screen is a monitor for one of the computers, a monitor for one of the laptops, or the head for the PS3. So while we technically have one television in the house, we don't use it for traditional TV viewing. (On the other hand, we have 5-6 computers and at least two phones capable of viewing Netflix in the house as well.)
This. We have a big blue "recycle" bin and all the stuff with a triangle goes into to. The rest of the sorting is handled by a processing facility. I don't think it'd be too difficult to add a third green bin for compostable stuff.
The issue is that people feel compelled to use their shiny new coupon RIGHT THIS MINUTE even though the expiration date of most Groupons is not until six months or a year after it is purchased. Many Groupons never get redeemed at all - we bought my sister in law and her husband 2 rounds of gold at a local golf course for Christmas last year, with the added promise that we'd watch their kids for the day while they had some adult time. Things never worked out and their Groupon expired, unused. We tend to hoarde our Groupons for at least a month before we use them, because we only eat out once a week and we get so many restaurant coupons from so many places.
Businesses also need to be aware of what industry they're in. A local winery offered half off wine tastings for groups ranging from 2-10. We paid $10 for a tasting for a group of four, and those four people then dropped another $100 on the wine we liked. The owner of the winery said that the Groupon deal was definitely a net favorable for him because usually the folks taking advantage of it were wine aficianados in the first place and were probably going to buy something else.
I'd argue that they're targeting Linux precisely because everyone assumes their Linux servers are invulnerable.
One slip of the mouse and the thing you meant to mark as "informative" is unfortunately marked as "redundant" instead. I've only done it once out of the hundreds of mod points I've handed out, but I am going to feel guilty about that for a long time. The only known workaround for this is posting in the thread, nullifying all your moderation for that thread, but if it was the fifth post you've modded you don't always want to take back the first four... If Google has a means of fixing that, then maybe it's an improvement. As it stands, to me the moderation here is the best we're going to get. Like democracy, it's a terrible form of goverment and never really works, but it's still better than any other system anyone has come up with.
Put your fingerprints all over everything you do and the accusations of invisibility will disappear. No one can argue that you're not pulling your weight if you have documentation and change logs with your name all over them.
I believe the article is referring to major hardware replacements, stress testing, etc. But there is other preventative or even detective work that needs to be done in data centers large and small that have nothing to do with equipment. You can't just blithely assume that things are always going to work as they are supposed to work. One time, we discovered that the camera server for one of our clients had stopped recording for no good reason, and upon closer inspection discovered that the hard drive failed and we had no alert system in place since it wasn't a "real" server but just a heavy duty XP machine. After that blunder, I was asked to check on all the cameras servers once a week and make sure I could actually open up and view recordings from days past. This is a preventative action, but not really a maintenance one.
I have no idea what you are talking about. Some background explanation is in order if you are going to discuss something serious enough to warrant lawsuits.
It's actually the same at many US public colleges. I had to provide proof of immunization to attend my undergraduate institution, then nine years later I had to get a booster shot to attend graduate school there. They had my old records so I didn't have to get any do-overs, but they pointed out that it had been 20 years since I had a TB shot and it was in my best interest to get the TDaP. There are ways to opt out - if a "religious leader" signs the immunization explaining its against your religion, or something like that, with an attached letter from said religious leader explaining why, but at that point the hassle is high you might as well just go to the county health department and get the shots over with.
Yep. They've got him until 2014, and he really needs to get a new edition out since it's an IT textbook and our current edition is already 2 years out of date. That's the other reason he wants to release it in eBook format: He can easily release a new edition each year that way, and just update the textbook as new stuff comes up through the school year. As it is, he had to send us a PDF of the "new" chapter 17 since so much had changed.
This is the same tack that Crunchy Roll took with anime. Subtitled anime piracy has slowed down a good bit, because people will willingly watch streaming high quality subs that are immediately available legally on Crunchy Roll, and not download them because they only wanted to watch the episode once. Crunchy Roll actually brokered a deal with animation studios to acquire the episode a week ahead of time and churn out a good, quality fansub in that period. Most fans will happily watch a short ad (hell, sometimes they include the original Japanese commercials for the audience) and then their 20 minutes of imported cartoons, and then buy the DVD a year later when the slow-as-a-whale distribution studios release it locally (dubbed.) Everyone wins, and piracy is greatly reduced.
My database professor has said he wants to move entirely to a modular eText format, but his publisher (one of the big academic guys) is the one resisting the change. His textbook is $150 brand new, $120 used, and he said he'd really like the the ebook to be a third to half of that price. That's cash that the publisher, not him, will lose out on, since his royalties are significantly less than $50.
... then maybe I have hope of getting a fix, or at the very least, a more efficient battery on my next phone.
This is the value I realized I am getting out of my master's degree. It's not the classes that are worth the $5K a semester tuition price, but the networking. Every other class has a guest lecture from someone in the industry, CEOs of companies to specialists to CIOs to everything under the sun... the movers and shakers of the IT world in Atlanta. I could have learned as much or more in online only classes, but my linked in contact list would be a hell of a lot shorter.
The Ivy league funding only applies to people who are graduating from top public schools at the top of their class. The valedictorian at my high school got a "free ride" at Harvard - $60K a year in tuition assistance plus a few other bonuses. Why? She had a 1600 on the SAT, spoke three languages, played the violin at the professional level at 18, and her dad was merely a sergeant in the Army. Unfortunately, we don't pay our soldiers quite enough to afford Ivy League educations for their kids...
Hah! The only help I got from my parents for college applications was a signature verifying I lived where I claimed (along with a copy of the power bill.) My mother's view on it was that if I couldn't handle a simple ten page form on my own, I wasn't going to be able to handle college either.
The issue is that IT is such a broad field that specialists in CS find themselves confronted with jobs that aren't really that related to what they learned how to do. My graduate program deliberately went after folks who DIDN'T have their undergraduate degrees in CS, because different backgrounds will bring in more well rounded perspectives to teams. Since most IT projects are done in groups (no one codes in a vacuum) you also need people who can think creatively, who can write English well, or who can think in terms of customer interactions. "Elite" CS programs at colleges crank out excellent coders and engineers, but that doesn't always mean they'll be good project members later on later on.
Not quite free, but you can buy a handful of them at $1 a pop and explain that you're giving them away as gifts.
The initial snapshot of a cloud based backup takes about 24 hours to run, but the incrementals run for 2-3 hours overnight since they are so much smaller. If you are taking a full backup to the cloud every night, then yes, a given network will probably be far too slow. But for a proper incremental backup system that connects to the cloud for a third layer of backups, even a crappy DSL connection is enough.
The issue, addressed in an earlier comment, is that there is no other existing equipment that can test for this sort of thing. Until someone gets a grant to build a similar test lab on the other side of the world, w don't get anything else to go by.
It's one giant umbrella. It's a field, not a career. Just like people work in the "medical industry" or the "financial area" - not all of them are doctors or mortgage brokers. So we work in "IT" but we're coders, hardware gurus, systems analysts, technical writers, managers, networkers, with even some random creative design and teachers thrown in the mix because the umbrella is getting larger every day.
There are two options: For the long term contamination that will be around for decades, the best thing to do is plant trees (sourgum trees have been proven to work.) The trees will pull the radioactive matter into their tissue, and keep it locked away safely for the remainder of the tree's life For the shorter term contaminants with brief half-lives, mustard plants (annuals) are preferred. If necessary, they can be "harvested" and stored in nuclear waste facilities until they're clean. The most important thing, however, is to get the radioactivity out of the soil and thus out of the groundwater supply. When the material is in a perennial plant, it's bound and the rate of release into the air and soil is dramatically reduced. In the case of non-radioactive materials, many of the soaked up materials are chemically altered by the plant into a much less harmful form, so that even if it is an annual that biodegrades, the material returned to the soil is in a less dangerous form.
ASUS Slider also works, and since the keyboard is stowed away underneath the pad when not in use, it it's less junk to carry around.
Classmate of mine uses this. It's a great tool - provided you aren't a doodler.
Although the land won't be suitable for farming for many years, botanists already know how to accelerate the cleanup by using plants that soak up radiation and contamination like sponges (phytoremediation.) Such contamination studies have been done at several major universities (including my own local one, which cleaned up an area that had been contaminated with non radioactive mercury within one year.) The question is whether Japan will swallow its pride and have its farmland turned into short term radioactive gardens.