Definitely. We can cobble these beasts together, put them into service, and make them stand up and dance for us. But hell hath no wrath compared to Dad when his recorded CSI won't play for him at 2:00am.
I long ago gave up on talking my family into anything other than off-the-shelf hardware and software, because I give quite enough tech support at work, thank you, and I at least get paid for that.
That's not too bad of a mechanical problem, but the real danger of higher voltages in the engine compartment is sparks.
Because of the huge demand for current in modern cars (when's the last time you saw a window crank?), the automakers are trying to move to a 42V electrical system, but they're having a hard time bringing down the costs of all those gas-tight connectors, not to mention devising safe procedures for jump-starts etc.
What makes it worse is that they have different restrictions, e.g., one site may mandate the use of at least one special character, and the next may require all alphanumerics.
And then, just about the time you've got a workable system, your passwords start expiring, subjecting you to just as wide a variety of password changing and reuse policies.
I finally had to write everything down in a "little black book" that I keep in my wallet, using codewords representing the user IDs and passwords, e.g., "ecom alnum" for an alphanumeric-only version of the password I most often use for E-Commerce sites.
I worked on the server side of things, where things didn't feel like PCs that happened not to have x86 CPUs. What I really miss about high-end PA-RISC boxes were things like being able to power down a single PCI bus slot to replace a card without affecting the rest of the system.
But let's be fair about it: hot-swappable everything and N+1 redundancy have been part of the mainframe world for decades. I've been working in the Unix world for over 25 years and I still don't get why it took the Unix server makers so long to even start adding those features. As recently as four years ago (when I got laid off from HP), I could hot-swap a single PCI nard but I still couldn't hot-swap a single DIMM.
I just bought an HP server for my current lab, and it feels good to be working with it again. (But I HATE paying retail!:)
Is there really any reason why to get an SGI today?
It's a reasonable question, all right, with an unexpected answer: I/O. This is the one area where IRIX still stands out among the other Unix flavors, and nobody outside the supercomputer world knows it, even though it holds true on all their hardware platforms. If you look under the hood, you'll see that the IRIX kernel's I/O layer can move bits at a higher percentage of available bus bandwidth than any of the others. The OS does an amazing job of getting out of the way of the hardware.
When I was working on HP-UX, we used them as our benchmark goal, and never met it.
My son is on the autistic spectrum. Our "safe side" is that we insist on thimerosal-free vaccines, but he still does get vaccinated. Even if this issue gets put to bed once and for all, we're still not going to inject mercury into our kids, for all the obvious reasons.
The other thing we do, which is not directly connected to autism, is that in cooperation with our pediatrician, we designed our own vaccination schedules for both our kids that gets them all the standard ones, but separated over time, so that they're not getting hit with as many as five antigens at once.
True, most countries make it easy for you to immigrate if you have a talent they can't easily produce among themselves, e.g., native speakers/teachers of foreign languages.
That doesn't help software engineers who want to offshore themselves ("All the coding jobs are going to India so maybe I should too"). That's been discussed here before, and the general consensus is that Americans and western Europeans wanting to emigrate to Asia are kept out by nearly impenetrable immigration laws.
You mean the one that doesn't appear on the screen and is not mentioned anywhere in the HTML? I have the first page of the review in another tab (Mozilla 1.7.5) and there is no picture. The site's too slashdotted right now to check in in IE.
I imagine that would be pretty tough, since NTSC is interlaced, unlike PAL or SECAM. but I can't say for sure having never hacked broadcast video RF signals.
Thank you for saying what I was going to. Where I live right now is not my residence, it's my HOME. We've put down roots. To move for a new job would men giving up extended family, close long-term friends, neighbors, church, etc. We've spent years finding doctors, barbers, plumbers, electricians, etc., whom we really like, and we'd have to start that all over again.
There was a time when I'd move wherever the work was, but no more.
Arrays that mix red, green and blue LEDs can produce any color of the rainbow.
Mostly true. When viewed directly, the eye perceives any color in the color space defined by the three LED colors. But the actual light is still trichromatic, so it won't light up the objects in the room the way you expect them to. A beautiful yellow light might make an object of that same beautiful yellow look like a dingy brown, becuse there's no actual light of that color to reflect off the object.
Try it yourself: Tonight, set your screen background to various colors, turn off the other lights in the room, and see what things look like when lit only by the monitor. The effect isn't as pronounced, but it's still observable.
There's nothing secret about it. Dark-emitting Diodes were specced out by Texas Instruments decades ago; it was obviously not much of a stretch to include that feature in their DLPs.
I was not a contractor in the sense that the guy who rewires my house is a contractor. I was a provider of technical services. I was leased equipment. The notion of contract labor on engineering projects is as old as the hills. My father did it in the mid-1960's.
By your definition, every technical services firm or provider over the last 40 years has been illegal. Funny how nobody noticed.
I was a contractor for ten years, and I've been a full-time employee for the last 12. As a contractor, I understood that I got an hour's pay for an hour's work. Period. I arranged my own vacation, insurance, and everything else that employees get as benefits. It was my job to ensure that my billing rate was high enough that I earned a good living after paying all those expenses, and I did. I earned a VERY good living, usually a lot better than my employee counterparts.
I quit contracting because I got tired of doing the lowest-level scut work that nobody else wanted, and now I earn a good living as an employee, but I have no illusions about loyalty or job security.
If I was abused by anybody, it was by the contract houses, who skimmed (or tried to, at least) an excessive amount of my raw billing rate as pure profit for them. Needless to say, when I found a contract house that treated me like I might actually know how the business works, I stuck with them.
not only the schematics, but a hex dump of the roms
Not just a hex dump, but the source (at least for the Apple II-not-plus). That's how I learned 6502 assembly language. Somewhere I still have my November 1977 Byte magazine that had the only published documentation on Sweet-16.
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Definitely. We can cobble these beasts together, put them into service, and make them stand up and dance for us. But hell hath no wrath compared to Dad when his recorded CSI won't play for him at 2:00am.
I long ago gave up on talking my family into anything other than off-the-shelf hardware and software, because I give quite enough tech support at work, thank you, and I at least get paid for that.
That's not too bad of a mechanical problem, but the real danger of higher voltages in the engine compartment is sparks.
Because of the huge demand for current in modern cars (when's the last time you saw a window crank?), the automakers are trying to move to a 42V electrical system, but they're having a hard time bringing down the costs of all those gas-tight connectors, not to mention devising safe procedures for jump-starts etc.
Lemme guess: You're not American.
A few dozen, easy. A few hundred, hard.
What makes it worse is that they have different restrictions, e.g., one site may mandate the use of at least one special character, and the next may require all alphanumerics.
And then, just about the time you've got a workable system, your passwords start expiring, subjecting you to just as wide a variety of password changing and reuse policies.
I finally had to write everything down in a "little black book" that I keep in my wallet, using codewords representing the user IDs and passwords, e.g., "ecom alnum" for an alphanumeric-only version of the password I most often use for E-Commerce sites.
That and heavy use of Mozilla's password manager.
I worked on the server side of things, where things didn't feel like PCs that happened not to have x86 CPUs. What I really miss about high-end PA-RISC boxes were things like being able to power down a single PCI bus slot to replace a card without affecting the rest of the system.
:)
But let's be fair about it: hot-swappable everything and N+1 redundancy have been part of the mainframe world for decades. I've been working in the Unix world for over 25 years and I still don't get why it took the Unix server makers so long to even start adding those features. As recently as four years ago (when I got laid off from HP), I could hot-swap a single PCI nard but I still couldn't hot-swap a single DIMM.
I just bought an HP server for my current lab, and it feels good to be working with it again. (But I HATE paying retail!
It's a reasonable question, all right, with an unexpected answer: I/O. This is the one area where IRIX still stands out among the other Unix flavors, and nobody outside the supercomputer world knows it, even though it holds true on all their hardware platforms. If you look under the hood, you'll see that the IRIX kernel's I/O layer can move bits at a higher percentage of available bus bandwidth than any of the others. The OS does an amazing job of getting out of the way of the hardware.
When I was working on HP-UX, we used them as our benchmark goal, and never met it.
True, but this recent one is definitely of interest.
My son is on the autistic spectrum. Our "safe side" is that we insist on thimerosal-free vaccines, but he still does get vaccinated. Even if this issue gets put to bed once and for all, we're still not going to inject mercury into our kids, for all the obvious reasons.
The other thing we do, which is not directly connected to autism, is that in cooperation with our pediatrician, we designed our own vaccination schedules for both our kids that gets them all the standard ones, but separated over time, so that they're not getting hit with as many as five antigens at once.
True, most countries make it easy for you to immigrate if you have a talent they can't easily produce among themselves, e.g., native speakers/teachers of foreign languages.
That doesn't help software engineers who want to offshore themselves ("All the coding jobs are going to India so maybe I should too"). That's been discussed here before, and the general consensus is that Americans and western Europeans wanting to emigrate to Asia are kept out by nearly impenetrable immigration laws.
Have you tried getting an Indian work visa? As in most countries, it's nearly impossible compared to getting an H1-B to work in the US.
You mean the one that doesn't appear on the screen and is not mentioned anywhere in the HTML? I have the first page of the review in another tab (Mozilla 1.7.5) and there is no picture. The site's too slashdotted right now to check in in IE.
Anyone?
I imagine that would be pretty tough, since NTSC is interlaced, unlike PAL or SECAM. but I can't say for sure having never hacked broadcast video RF signals.
OK, so their support site answered one of my questions, but there's still nothing about how to fix the broken pop-out cupholder.
Funny, I didn't think there were too many other slashdotters working in my building.
This exact thing happened to me, except it was our department secretary (who handles order paperwork) that got the RHN password, not IT.
Thank you for saying what I was going to. Where I live right now is not my residence, it's my HOME. We've put down roots. To move for a new job would men giving up extended family, close long-term friends, neighbors, church, etc. We've spent years finding doctors, barbers, plumbers, electricians, etc., whom we really like, and we'd have to start that all over again.
There was a time when I'd move wherever the work was, but no more.
"Eager for a job" != "Willing to go anywhere to get it".
Mostly true. When viewed directly, the eye perceives any color in the color space defined by the three LED colors. But the actual light is still trichromatic, so it won't light up the objects in the room the way you expect them to. A beautiful yellow light might make an object of that same beautiful yellow look like a dingy brown, becuse there's no actual light of that color to reflect off the object.
Try it yourself: Tonight, set your screen background to various colors, turn off the other lights in the room, and see what things look like when lit only by the monitor. The effect isn't as pronounced, but it's still observable.
I heard Torvalds is cashing in some of his Transmeta stock to buy a few thousand seats of ClearCase.
There's nothing secret about it. Dark-emitting Diodes were specced out by Texas Instruments decades ago; it was obviously not much of a stretch to include that feature in their DLPs.
If it lasts forever, we still have the option of destroying the media if we're only supposed to keep it for a finite amount of time.
What we really need is fireproof paper.
Yes, but what do you use to wire your Tice Clock?
I was not a contractor in the sense that the guy who rewires my house is a contractor. I was a provider of technical services. I was leased equipment.
The notion of contract labor on engineering projects is as old as the hills. My father did it in the mid-1960's.
By your definition, every technical services firm or provider over the last 40 years has been illegal. Funny how nobody noticed.
No, nobody's being abused.
I was a contractor for ten years, and I've been a full-time employee for the last 12. As a contractor, I understood that I got an hour's pay for an hour's work. Period. I arranged my own vacation, insurance, and everything else that employees get as benefits. It was my job to ensure that my billing rate was high enough that I earned a good living after paying all those expenses, and I did. I earned a VERY good living, usually a lot better than my employee counterparts.
I quit contracting because I got tired of doing the lowest-level scut work that nobody else wanted, and now I earn a good living as an employee, but I have no illusions about loyalty or job security.
If I was abused by anybody, it was by the contract houses, who skimmed (or tried to, at least) an excessive amount of my raw billing rate as pure profit for them. Needless to say, when I found a contract house that treated me like I might actually know how the business works, I stuck with them.
Not just a hex dump, but the source (at least for the Apple II-not-plus). That's how I learned 6502 assembly language. Somewhere I still have my November 1977 Byte magazine that had the only published documentation on Sweet-16.