I've worked on systems with 4x21" monitors for at least 15 years and I love the extra real estate. Admittedly I needed a f#$# off big desk to accomodate all those CRTs at the time. But now with 24" and larger LCDs, they don't use as much room. If I have the resolution and screens I find I don't need to print as much. If I'm stuck with a single laptop screen, then all bets are off.
I find I can't work on one screen now and even two is pushing it. But a lot of managers see big multiscreen setups as a status thing. The effect being that paper allows more resolution and flexibiliity over a single cheap a$$ 17-19" LCDs.
Until the bean counters and pointy haired bosses realise this, then we will be stuck with paper.
'We're obviously not giving up on the US,' says Pinto.
Yes they are. This is just the s$#T they spin to the shareholders, polititions and the sheeple so the CEOs can get their big bonuses without that much flack.
In Australia, the government and emergency services have, this year, implemented SMS alerts to warn people of natural disasters. This is in addition to the traditional methods: TV, commercial FM/AM radio and the national broadcast network. So basically all bases are covered this way. They ran a test earlier this year and it worked beautifully. Basically, since SMS is part of the background traffic for Cell phone, they can broadcast to the state or county or phones connected to individual Cell towers.
If you read anand's articles on SSDs this jump to 4k block sizes would naturally fit in with how SSDs keep track of used pages. Thus would boost performance in the long run, if this was adopted as the new block size.
In the OP it says it all "As holder of the first, they are suing all other lien holders, including the holder of the second, which is Wells Fargo.". If they're successful in getting the courts to agree that that have to cough up to themselves, then it's a simple step to get the other 2nd holders to cough up as well.
IANAL
It sounds like they're heading for an epic fail. Aerospace == Process + CMS. They will never survive the NTSB audits and safety Nazi without both. They will need to prove the Change trail for every nut/bolt/software path/data item/paper clip and who authorised/designed/checked/tested it for the rest of their natural lives. So if they don't have Process + CMS, they are screwed beyound belief. To me it sounds like a medium sized software house, that's decided to switch to Aerospace because it's cool or high tech or the marketing guys sold some product.
Stuff made out of steel in the 1980s. Don't you mean the 1880s. I work for a railway signalling company and we just recently (within the last two years) replaced some of our equipment installed in the 1880s with some newer comptuer based equipment designed in the 1990s. This equipment will have a life expectancy of at least 20-30 years. The older equipment still worked and would have for another hundred years, it was just that it didn't have anywhere for a Traffic Control System to plug into it.
Here's an idea to stop inconpetent repair shops. When you hand over the equipment to be repaired, also hand them a contract to sign saying they will be liable for any costs associated with loss of data or recovery of said data. This contract should specify that it overrides any conflicting "We're not responsible for loss of data" clauses in their standard terms and conditions. PS: Make sure you put **AA inflated values on your data and time.
BTW: IANAL but would be interested in one's view on this approach.
Excellent idea there. You could take it one step further however, when giving access to hot chicks, leave information where they can find it that implies you're extremely well endowed.
...How's this: companies can outsource to people from these "shithole countries" to reduce their costs as long as they also reduce their salaries and bonuses to what execs in that country get...
I hate to bust your bubble, but the so called "execs" in third world countries do alright. They get comparable or even better salaries because they don't feel the slightest shred of guilt over exploiting their local countymen. In fact because of the greater disparity between the poor and rich in third world coutries, they live much better lives than equivalent execs of the 1st and 2nd worlds.
Well there is one industry that is currently going the other way, just because of the limitations of CPU technology. That industry is railway signalling. Traditionally they have designed their algorithms and process based on the premise that everything is done in parallel. They then implemented their programs on a massively parallel processing systems. Have you ever seen a Signalling Interlocking. It's made up of 1000s or more individual relays. Thing is, even though switching times for relays are many orders of magnitudes slower than Solid state devices, I've never seen a Computer Based Interlocking operate as quickly as a Relay Based Interlocking. The reason.... because we've taken an essentially parallel process and implemented it on a serial processing device. In fact it's a little worse than that, because of the safety issues involved. With the parallel processing model you could verify safety quite simply, due to the simple processing model of each processing unit. With the serial model, it is difficult for software engineers to verify safety, since everything shares the same address space and I/O mapping, so extra checks and balances need to be put in place.
I used to think railway signalling was a very conservative field until I read the OP. Now I'm not so sure.:P
Don't you know anything about Australia.
All Aussie males are called Bruce.
All Aussie females are called Shella.
All Aussies BBQ prawns and drink Fosters Lager.
All Aussies keep Roos as pets.
UTC is going to be phased out anyway. So why not use it's replacement TI. Does away with those pesky leap seconds as well. I mean who wants to know that 12:00 roughly corresponds to the sun being at its highest point in the sky anyway.
I realise it's bucking conventional "/." wisdom, but most of the world doesn't revolve around the internet. People still need to make or sell actual stuff that other people buy. Children need to go to schools. The corner shop is still cateres to local needs and will open during peak business hours. People still think locally; we're hardwired that way.
We used to ignore 9-5 before. That's was during the industrial revolution. Then they had workhouses and a small elite class oppressing the poor and uneducated. (Ohh! I think we've gone full circle on that one.) That's why unions were form to protect the rights of workers from exploitation, hence the 8 hour day.
I would have said that 98% of all gamers don't care about EA now.
They make the odd came that sells well, but is that based on past glories or the lack of anything kick-ass out there.
I have empathy, just not enough to give away my hard earned money to people who made bad life choices, or who are unlucky. Living forever is not a right you sleep around and get AIDS it's your fault and you should pay the consequences not me.
Well it's obvious you don't know anyone with HIV. I know several people and let me tell you, it's not always because someone sleeps around. You heard of needle stick injuries? Or what about women sold into slavely. Single mothers trying to earn enough to feed their children?
You're the sick one... unfortunately it's a mental illness you have so doesn't show up.
I'm with you on this.
I would go as far as say that the Configuration Management system that you deploy should apply a style guide to every piece of code checked in and out (maybe with the option of users choosing their style on the out path).
But Style is just fluff. The important thing content. Using C casts, uninitialised pointers, no design patterns === PROBABLY BAD CODE.
I sympathise with the OP... I've been given a project to run that is trying to tie together three different code bases written over the last 5 years; each with their own coding standard. One even still dictates 80 characters per line. So I end up with a religious war every time I mention coding standard.
Since it's mainly C/C++, I'll go with either HICPP or MISRA++ coding standard and enforce the Style at the CM tool. Just wait for the screams.
As sick as what she did, I don't see how faking an identity in order to harass someone until the point that they kill themselves would not be covered under like, involuntary manslaughter at the very least.
We have a woman in the office who gets offended if she sees two people talking quietly - because she just assumes that they're talking about her.
So, if she gets depressed about this and kills herself, you'd want everyone in the office to be charged with involuntary manslaughter?
You have to base laws on the act and not on the effect the act has on someone.
Unfortunately, most sexual harassment laws are written that way. It is not the intent that counts, just the perception of the "victim". Does this make it right.... Not in my opinion, but that seems to be what society wants now. Protecting against perceived offenses at the harm of the innocent.
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I find I can't work on one screen now and even two is pushing it. But a lot of managers see big multiscreen setups as a status thing. The effect being that paper allows more resolution and flexibiliity over a single cheap a$$ 17-19" LCDs.
Until the bean counters and pointy haired bosses realise this, then we will be stuck with paper.
Yes they are. This is just the s$#T they spin to the shareholders, polititions and the sheeple so the CEOs can get their big bonuses without that much flack.
* Click 1: Buy Now! * Click 2: Are You Sure? There's some pre-existing art so no one tries.
* Click 3: ????
* Click 4: Profit!
In Australia, the government and emergency services have, this year, implemented SMS alerts to warn people of natural disasters. This is in addition to the traditional methods: TV, commercial FM/AM radio and the national broadcast network. So basically all bases are covered this way. They ran a test earlier this year and it worked beautifully. Basically, since SMS is part of the background traffic for Cell phone, they can broadcast to the state or county or phones connected to individual Cell towers.
If you read anand's articles on SSDs this jump to 4k block sizes would naturally fit in with how SSDs keep track of used pages. Thus would boost performance in the long run, if this was adopted as the new block size.
"Back off man. I'm a Scientist"
In the OP it says it all "As holder of the first, they are suing all other lien holders, including the holder of the second, which is Wells Fargo.". If they're successful in getting the courts to agree that that have to cough up to themselves, then it's a simple step to get the other 2nd holders to cough up as well. IANAL
It sounds like they're heading for an epic fail. Aerospace == Process + CMS. They will never survive the NTSB audits and safety Nazi without both. They will need to prove the Change trail for every nut/bolt/software path/data item/paper clip and who authorised/designed/checked/tested it for the rest of their natural lives. So if they don't have Process + CMS, they are screwed beyound belief. To me it sounds like a medium sized software house, that's decided to switch to Aerospace because it's cool or high tech or the marketing guys sold some product.
Stuff made out of steel in the 1980s. Don't you mean the 1880s. I work for a railway signalling company and we just recently (within the last two years) replaced some of our equipment installed in the 1880s with some newer comptuer based equipment designed in the 1990s. This equipment will have a life expectancy of at least 20-30 years. The older equipment still worked and would have for another hundred years, it was just that it didn't have anywhere for a Traffic Control System to plug into it.
Here's an idea to stop inconpetent repair shops. When you hand over the equipment to be repaired, also hand them a contract to sign saying they will be liable for any costs associated with loss of data or recovery of said data. This contract should specify that it overrides any conflicting "We're not responsible for loss of data" clauses in their standard terms and conditions. PS: Make sure you put **AA inflated values on your data and time. BTW: IANAL but would be interested in one's view on this approach.
Excellent idea there. You could take it one step further however, when giving access to hot chicks, leave information where they can find it that implies you're extremely well endowed.
The guy should have tried the "think of the children" ploy, or is that patented by someone?
With all the free (as in beer) alternatives out there, this would be the dumbest thing anyone could think of.
...How's this: companies can outsource to people from these "shithole countries" to reduce their costs as long as they also reduce their salaries and bonuses to what execs in that country get...
I hate to bust your bubble, but the so called "execs" in third world countries do alright. They get comparable or even better salaries because they don't feel the slightest shred of guilt over exploiting their local countymen. In fact because of the greater disparity between the poor and rich in third world coutries, they live much better lives than equivalent execs of the 1st and 2nd worlds.
How can it be a CD if it doesn't conform to the CD standard published by Phillips?
Those old farts have children too, don't they, or somehow will the copyright end up in the hands of corporations.
Well there is one industry that is currently going the other way, just because of the limitations of CPU technology. That industry is railway signalling. Traditionally they have designed their algorithms and process based on the premise that everything is done in parallel. They then implemented their programs on a massively parallel processing systems. Have you ever seen a Signalling Interlocking. It's made up of 1000s or more individual relays. Thing is, even though switching times for relays are many orders of magnitudes slower than Solid state devices, I've never seen a Computer Based Interlocking operate as quickly as a Relay Based Interlocking. The reason.... because we've taken an essentially parallel process and implemented it on a serial processing device. In fact it's a little worse than that, because of the safety issues involved. With the parallel processing model you could verify safety quite simply, due to the simple processing model of each processing unit. With the serial model, it is difficult for software engineers to verify safety, since everything shares the same address space and I/O mapping, so extra checks and balances need to be put in place. I used to think railway signalling was a very conservative field until I read the OP. Now I'm not so sure. :P
Don't you know anything about Australia. All Aussie males are called Bruce. All Aussie females are called Shella. All Aussies BBQ prawns and drink Fosters Lager. All Aussies keep Roos as pets.
UTC is going to be phased out anyway. So why not use it's replacement TI. Does away with those pesky leap seconds as well. I mean who wants to know that 12:00 roughly corresponds to the sun being at its highest point in the sky anyway. I realise it's bucking conventional "/." wisdom, but most of the world doesn't revolve around the internet. People still need to make or sell actual stuff that other people buy. Children need to go to schools. The corner shop is still cateres to local needs and will open during peak business hours. People still think locally; we're hardwired that way. We used to ignore 9-5 before. That's was during the industrial revolution. Then they had workhouses and a small elite class oppressing the poor and uneducated. (Ohh! I think we've gone full circle on that one.) That's why unions were form to protect the rights of workers from exploitation, hence the 8 hour day.
I would have said that 98% of all gamers don't care about EA now. They make the odd came that sells well, but is that based on past glories or the lack of anything kick-ass out there.
I have empathy, just not enough to give away my hard earned money to people who made bad life choices, or who are unlucky. Living forever is not a right you sleep around and get AIDS it's your fault and you should pay the consequences not me.
Well it's obvious you don't know anyone with HIV. I know several people and let me tell you, it's not always because someone sleeps around. You heard of needle stick injuries? Or what about women sold into slavely. Single mothers trying to earn enough to feed their children? You're the sick one... unfortunately it's a mental illness you have so doesn't show up.
I'm with you on this. I would go as far as say that the Configuration Management system that you deploy should apply a style guide to every piece of code checked in and out (maybe with the option of users choosing their style on the out path). But Style is just fluff. The important thing content. Using C casts, uninitialised pointers, no design patterns === PROBABLY BAD CODE. I sympathise with the OP... I've been given a project to run that is trying to tie together three different code bases written over the last 5 years; each with their own coding standard. One even still dictates 80 characters per line. So I end up with a religious war every time I mention coding standard. Since it's mainly C/C++, I'll go with either HICPP or MISRA++ coding standard and enforce the Style at the CM tool. Just wait for the screams.
Yeh, Like Law and Medicine.
As sick as what she did, I don't see how faking an identity in order to harass someone until the point that they kill themselves would not be covered under like, involuntary manslaughter at the very least. We have a woman in the office who gets offended if she sees two people talking quietly - because she just assumes that they're talking about her. So, if she gets depressed about this and kills herself, you'd want everyone in the office to be charged with involuntary manslaughter? You have to base laws on the act and not on the effect the act has on someone.
Unfortunately, most sexual harassment laws are written that way. It is not the intent that counts, just the perception of the "victim". Does this make it right.... Not in my opinion, but that seems to be what society wants now. Protecting against perceived offenses at the harm of the innocent.