You have to be in order to be effective. While the manager can't be expected to get in the trenches to do the work, they have to know how the trenches work. And for far more than knowing if a tech is blowing smoke. The techs need a manager that is technically competent to at least a certain level.
Incompetent managers can cause dilbertesque levels of insanity in technology just as much as anywhere else. I've seen managers so incompetent that they have led multimillion dollar projects straight into the ground through sheer ineptitude.
I recall one 100 million dollar plus project I was brought in on where a manager believed the vendor when they said you didn't need a single desktop technician to migrate tens of thousands of desktops. Needless to say that manager lost their job and the vender was sued for millions.
The manager needs to know enough to know what's needed for the department to do it's job, to know what to ask for it from venders and upper management. I've seen an it manager approve money for expensive inkjets because they like the pictures without leaving any money in the budget to replace a five year old server on it's last legs. I shouldn't have to explain to a manager that tape drives really do cost much and that a failed unit really needs replaced/now/!
Upper Management needs someone that can make that kind of decision correctly, they rely heavily on management's opinions for purchasing. The user base needs someone that isn't going to be snowed by a vendor with a dog and pony show. The techs need someone that knows what tools they need to do their job.
The job of management is to be an abstraction layer that interfaces between workers and upper management. They need to know enough about the job being done by their employees to do that.
Dual layer DVD's have been out for a couple years now and the media/still/ costs about $2 a disc (best price on froogle). And to get that price you have to buy them by the 50 pack. By the time these disks come down to the price point you offered I'll be able to get a 1 TB drive for the price I offered, and the effeciency curve will continue to favor the drive. So why bother to invest in this technology.
Blu ray would have been relevant 4 years ago if it had been introduced then, but it wasn't. Instead it's been introduced in todays age when you can buy a 250 GB hard disk for less than $70 with ease. The disks for this will be like any other disk in that their effective lifecycle will just be a few years. Like any other burnable disk they will suffer from burn problems and very low reliability.
It doesn't price justify to buy this kind of media (nevermind the whole DRM bit). Your better off spending your money on hard drives, they hold significantly more data, are an order of magnitude cheaper and several orders of magnitude more durable. In all sincerity, why would you ever want to buy something like this?
When will greenpeace end their days of hypocrisy and start sailing the seas in these nifty windpowered devices they call sailing ships? They use renewable energy, don't use polluting engines (much as greenpeaces current fleet does) and are arguably just about histories most proven technology.
Of course then they would limited to actual research instead of political stunts. Almost all of histories most famous research ships were wooden sailing ships and greenpeace spits on the legacy.
They need exposed as the frauds they are and for people to stop accepting the lie that they are an environmental group. They are a political group that has done more to harm environmental progress (look at their record on nuclear energy for a prime example) than anybody short of big industry.
This coming from someone/has/ worked in the recycling industry, doesn't drive a big car gives to environmental causes and so on. Give money to legitimate environmental groups, live responsibly and let this political whore / quasi terrorist organization die.
Brass tacks, bottom line is that wikipedia is a political movement, not an encyclopedia, was this your intention from the get go? Anyone challenging this need only browse contorversial topics to quickly discern the political bias that overwhelms wikipedia.
I've dealth with fraud before professionaly in the credit world. I've also deal to a fair level with fraud on ebay. Fraud is normally fairly easy to spot if you know what your looking for. Bottom line is that ebay can and should do a lot more to prevent fraud than they are now. Here are steps ebay can take that would have very minimal cost.
Step 1. Have an easy way to report a suspect fraud auction at the top of each and every auction. As it is now you you have to spend a fair bit of time going through menu after menu just to submit a form that will be reviewed by somebody three to five days from now. That is deplorable and inexcusable. Ebay claims to be a largely customer self policed market, fine, than let the community easily report fraud when they see it.
Step 2. They have pattern analysis data that many companies can only dream of. When some lady with a high feedback selling garden trinkets suddenly develops an interest in selling high end laptops, that should sound alarm bells.
Step 3. Require an original picture for any auction. This would cost ebay nothing since customes are chargeed for pictures anyways. Give people the ability to see what they heck someone is claiming to sell! They can easily compare existing pictures against previous ones for the same checksum.
Step 4. Minimum auction time. Fraudsters take advantage of ebays failure to give a damn in any meaningfull timely manner by posting 24 or 48 hour auctions on seized accounts. They then offer a high demand bit of hit at a too good to be true price for that time period. Since it takes days before ebay even reviews a fraud claim 99% of the time the fraudster can very safely operate in that time window.
Step 5. Acknowledge that fraud occurs in some areas more than others and act quickly in those areas! Buying a highend laptop without encountering a fraud postings is very difficult. If they put the same level of vigalance on these types of auctions they used for "unlicensed software" ebay wouldn't have half the fraud problem they do now.
Step 6. Fraud auctions often post an email address in several auctions for different hijacked accounts because that is where they really want you to send the money. Simply track email addresses used by multiple accounts and flag anything that pops up.
Bottom line is that if ebay wanted to cut fraud dramatically they could do so easily and with minimal cost. The only explanation I can think of is a deep rooted sense of denial on their part that they have a problem. Why they haven't been sued in a class action lawsuit for turning a blind eye to fraud I don't know.
Hm, lets see here, the UNIX Essentials Featuring the "Solaris 10 Operating System (SA-100-S10)" is a four day class for $2000. I would then have to take several other courses at simliar prices in order to bring my training to a useful degree. Or I can get a web based Soalris 9 class "The Complete Solaris 9 Operating System Web Bundle (WSB-009)" for $1595. No such class for Solaris 10 exists. The training is only available during the day so I would lose out on four days pay.
My point stands, the training that Sun has costs far too much money individual IT professional. This is coming from someone that has spent quite a bit of money on IT training / education over the years. I'm certainly not opposed to instructors making a healthy living, but those classes are set for corp / gov IT budgets, not the individual, and that is my point.
What they should do though is look at programs that Novell, Microsoft and Cisco have done over the years where you can go to a community college for your classes and have a structured learning path with the guidance of the vendor. Not only do you get the vendor structure for what you should learn, you get college credit and such classes can be paid for through federal student loans. This is what Sun needs to start investing in if they want new blood and non *nix types to learn their product.
Quite willing, the software is available, the hardware is now nicely priced and the documentation is out there. This is enough for me to get started, but to really get to know something having training materials available is neccasary and instructor led training ideal. When I'm brought into work a contract, they are doing so because I know my material inside out. Having book knowledge and a home system alone don't go far enough to do something proessionaly. You need training materials at the very least that give you scenarios to work through and guidance outside of yourself on what's important.
I have done the training, lab, class thing for Novell, Microsoft and Cisco, so I know how it goes when you have those resources available. Contrast that to something like Altiris where the only training is from the vendor itself (too expensive for most IT people to pay out of their own wallet) and there are no books out there. I've had to do Altiris (2 out of 3 for ACE) with nothing more than documentation and on the job experience. Things would have been a lot smoother if I'd had training materials and not just documentation to study though.
Consider how long they lasted and the times that they lived in. The Roman empire lasted longer and brought prosperity to a larger portion of people for a far longer period of time than any nation alive today. That they eventually fell is moot to my point. My point has to to with their prosperity and success, and for that the roads were critical.
Couple historical points for you though. Most roads did not "lead" to Rome anymore than most roads today lead to Washington DC. Most roads connected disparate parts of their empire with other disparate parts. The result being that many of these disparate parts became far less disparate.
As for why did they build the roads? It certainly wasn't to bring troops to Rome itself, in fact they were forbidden from crossing the Rubicon and coming to close to Rome (something Julius Ceaser famously defied). Roads were built to help them manage their far flung empire and keep their standing professional army busy during times of peace. The natural byproduct of the road system was the economic flourishment that the empire enjoyed.
Idle troops can be very dangerous, and building the roads served as much to keep their troops busy as they did for troop transport. Rome was pretty much alone in having professional troops intead of conscripts and understood the importance of a standing army. It was on of those minor details that led to both the size and longevity of their empire.
Consumerism? Did I say anything about goods or markets? Nope. Did I say anything about politics or government? Nope. I was talking about economic prosperity. Your talking about an area of the world so poor that people are stealing/wet concrete/ to cover the dirt floor of the one room house they live in. You did read the article, right?
Please, do tell me how bringing some economic prosperity to what is one of the poorest regions on the planet is harmful? Please, I want to see your insitefulness on the benefit of living in absolute desperation for generation upon generation. I want to know the benefits of the absolute conservatism that decries progress for the rest of the world.
It's a fairly good article really, and a lesson the ancient Romans taught the world. Having a reliable, fast public road system is critical for the rest of society to build on. From Africa to Asia, economic prosperity is dependant on and will literally follow the road made available to it.
Yes roads will shape the dynamics of communities, they will change, remove and add culture, but the greater of the whole will benefit for it. It's called progress, things change, get over it. It's good to see the road actually being built there, perhaps someday places like Africa will also see this.
Let's face it, the hiway has done more to benefit the economies of the west than any other invention of the twenieth century. The east and other parts of the world want that same benefit, and there is no reason they should not be able to have it.
Ok, ready for the anti-car nuts to flame me for not wanting everyone to live in a village or highly condensed metro area where people walk everywhere.
Give them credit for this, it's a pretty decent deal actually. The only thing I don't like though is the fact their educational skills package is $3000. I'd like to learn Sun Solaris, and the one school I found near where I live that teaches it closed the very day I was to start class. I live one of the most tech heavy / college heavy areas in the US to boot!
Message to Sun, if you want more IT people on your hardware and software, you need to make it easier for people to gain those skills (you have just made it easier to gain the hardware). Books only go so far, you have to play with it, learn it and use it to know it. I'm interested in learning Sun, but no *nix shop is going to let me in the door no matter how many years of IT experience I have with just a book education. People want education, so make it easier for the lay person to afford it, ok?
The best advocate for your product is the IT person. The best way to get the advocate is to make sure that the IT person can learn you product. I've been looking for a reasonably affordable option to get trained on Sun for years, most IT people can't talk their contract house into paying for your clases. Novell, Microsoft and Novell all have readily available classes in community colleges and the like, Sun, where are you?
I've done writing on the Internet to verious forums over the years and have had more stories or posts plagarized than I can count. I had one timely story I wrote get copied and published by print newspapers worldwide. All of this has been done without crediting me as the source. I don't mind that people copy these stories or posts, but I do mind when I don't get credit.
So the question is, if my work has been published in printed media under someone else's name can I claim to be a "published journalist"?
This is really quite simple. People have stopped going through years of college to get an IT degree because IT jobs are shipped offshore in record numbers. The same thing is happening to engineering and science fields. I couldn't imagine how I could possibly ever advise someone to go through school and enter one of these fields.
First it was the H1B, then it was offshoring. The damage that these two have done to the field can never be recovered. The ironic part is now that so many people are dropping out of school or refusing to go to school for these fields now for these reasons that actually may be a genuine shortage in several years. Combine these with the fact that it's very difficult for an entry to mid level person to get a job without experience in the exact version of a product and you have successfully doomed the IT field in the US.
Too bad the US doesn't have apprentice programs such as they use in Germany.
Where I work we have the same situation. However all of IT (security, network and so on) is in the same office area. In order to secure the area they just put up a wall and secure card access. That way the only people in there are the IT people. If you can't trust your IT staff, than they don't have any business being your IT staff. That way the risk is still there, but you don't have anyone other than IT in the area to begin with.
Make sure I can plug it in as a mass media drive without special drivers etc
Line in for audio
Rubber bumbers for shock protection
Rubber back for good grip
Built in modem for dial up when traveling
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You were one the first to really allow people to easily go into and modify aspects of your game. The first mod work I ever did for a game was to take the units for Civ II and revamp them.
At the time that prompted learning photoshop and my first real in depth look at the Internet. In retrospect that helped spur my career in IT, by making things accesible enough for somoene who wasnt a programmer to go under the hood and make changes, to play with it.
Was it your intent to help spur interest in technology as a career, or was this just an easy way to make the game? Is making the game that easily modifiable in the future something you still plan on doing down the road?
1. Is this kind of like Microsoft selling Mac software or something? Microsoft is the second largest MAC software purveyor out there, and it could well be argued at times they were larger in the Apple software market than Apple itself.
2. Microsoft has long acknowledged their competitors and has gone to great lengths to point out that there is a #2. This might have something to do with the whole monopoly antitrust thing. Microsoft has purchased products such as VMWare and routinely produces studies where they claim to outperform "#2". The questionable nature of these studies often winds up on the pages of Slashdot, OSDN and the like. Microsoft also advertises in Linux forums like Slashdot. Really, where do you get that they don't acknowledge competition?
3. Microsoft wants to win the server wars. Unix has been losing market share, but far more to Linux than Microsoft. If they can gain that market they gain an inside track to additional markets. They also get importantly get the talent to help them have their products interoperate better with Unix and and Linux. Frankly it makes a lot more sense for Microsoft to a Linux shop like Red Hat than a Unix house like Sun. (Dont forget MS started as a Unix house.)
Hardly offtopic. For the waves to propogate as they have been recorded in CMB would require a medium in which to have traveled. The logical conclusion is that medium was a gas of fluid. Before the universe expanded enough to allow a gas, it had to be something, this would logically have been a fluidic substance since a gas can only occur under a certain pressure. The CMBR results did not dictate the RHIC results, but certainly would have lended credence to their theory they used to do the research in the first place.
Ergo, when the fluid was there it carried the shockwaves we see today, ergo these waves relate to both the sound that was captured and the state of the early universe. My comment is not offtopic.
cosmic microwave background radiation pretty much dictated this three years ago. Rest of comment is a rip off an article I did for K5 a few years ago that dealt CMB.
The big bang theory gained more credibility today with some news released by the National Science Foundation and collaborated by a United States team called Maxima with astronomers from the University of Minnesota and the University of California, Berkeley.
The soundwaves that were found are an impression of quantum scale energy fluctuations carried to earth by cosmic microwave background radiation. Scientists were able to measure the waves by looking at cosmic microwave background (CMB). These early soundwaves are thought to have created super and giant clusters of galaxies with their travel. The soundwaves are actually contained in primordial plasma. They are effectively overtones or harmonics of the big bang explosion that is said to have created the universe.
These soundwaves are important because they show two things that are important for understanding our universe in addition to solidifying the big bang AKA inflationary thoery.
# First of note is that the study indicates that the universe is geometrically flat, not curved.
# This study also gives credence to the thoery that most of the universe is composed of dark matter.
The discoveries were made by microwave detectors in Antartica, using baloons. The study involved only about 3 percent of the sky, and looked at temperature fluctuations of only 100-millionths of a degree celcius in the CMB.
This is perhaps the first time I have ever heard something about the GPL that could actually justify the whole "commie" tag it sometimes gets. Communism, forced sharing with the community. I'm pro open source, I'm also a strident anti-communist. The melding of these two things distubs me greatly. Open source has made huge strides in many sectors because of the GPL, that you could take the code and use it. Unless you redistrubeted the code, you could do what you want with it. They want to chage this, they are idiots.
A lot of organizations out there would scrap their entire open source infrastructure in a heartbeat if they thought this would come to pass. From military applications to enterprise systems for banks, it would face wholesale expulsion. What else are they going to try and do with it, force my vote in the next election? Leave politics out of my software licenses please.
Ingenous, charge people who don't redistribute free software! I can't think of anything Microsoft has considered better news in a long, long time. Free software is no longer free. It's sorta free, well could be free, under the right circumstances is free. Ah fuck it, let me get a lawyer....
Let's see, you were slow dealing with spam complaints. Why should I be sympathetic? This is exactly the kind of thing I expect MAPS to do. The next time you get spam complaints from them you might not put it on the back burner. We need more services like theirs to take an aggresive approach.
Crux of the problem is fairly simple. If you want to get the newest shiniest hardware to review and get your review out right away you can only do so with pre-release hardware. The only way to get that is to play ball with the hardware co's. Why do you think so many sites were mum about the dual athlon mp boards until one day you had a couple dozen reviews all of a sudden? That's the day the NDA's all expired.
Without this hardware you have to buy your hardware yourself. Not only is this expensive, but by the time your review is out the ad value of your review of bleeding edge hardware is kaput. Unfortunately, these are the ones that do the most honest and best reviews. Pre-release hardware is often picked out from a large selection to make sure that the review site gets a good "sample". These reviews are also the least profitable for the review sites to do. It's a nasty catch 22.
I used to do this for a living, it's where I got my break in IT. I was one of the people that worked in the control center monitoring all of the equipment. When I worked there the level of preventive maintenence they performed (coils washed etc) was staggering. The amount of money they saved by doing all of this was also staggering.
The stores are all computer controlled for their HVAC and lighting. I would spend my day working with HVAC contractors and electricians and remotely monitoring the stores. We had server room air conditioners in North Dakota and Minnesota that we had running in January, using as much free air as possible of course. I still probably know more about commercial HVAC than home.
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Incompetent managers can cause dilbertesque levels of insanity in technology just as much as anywhere else. I've seen managers so incompetent that they have led multimillion dollar projects straight into the ground through sheer ineptitude.
I recall one 100 million dollar plus project I was brought in on where a manager believed the vendor when they said you didn't need a single desktop technician to migrate tens of thousands of desktops. Needless to say that manager lost their job and the vender was sued for millions.
The manager needs to know enough to know what's needed for the department to do it's job, to know what to ask for it from venders and upper management. I've seen an it manager approve money for expensive inkjets because they like the pictures without leaving any money in the budget to replace a five year old server on it's last legs. I shouldn't have to explain to a manager that tape drives really do cost much and that a failed unit really needs replaced /now/!
Upper Management needs someone that can make that kind of decision correctly, they rely heavily on management's opinions for purchasing. The user base needs someone that isn't going to be snowed by a vendor with a dog and pony show. The techs need someone that knows what tools they need to do their job.
The job of management is to be an abstraction layer that interfaces between workers and upper management. They need to know enough about the job being done by their employees to do that.
Dual layer DVD's have been out for a couple years now and the media /still/ costs about $2 a disc (best price on froogle). And to get that price you have to buy them by the 50 pack. By the time these disks come down to the price point you offered I'll be able to get a 1 TB drive for the price I offered, and the effeciency curve will continue to favor the drive. So why bother to invest in this technology.
Blu ray would have been relevant 4 years ago if it had been introduced then, but it wasn't. Instead it's been introduced in todays age when you can buy a 250 GB hard disk for less than $70 with ease. The disks for this will be like any other disk in that their effective lifecycle will just be a few years. Like any other burnable disk they will suffer from burn problems and very low reliability.
It doesn't price justify to buy this kind of media (nevermind the whole DRM bit). Your better off spending your money on hard drives, they hold significantly more data, are an order of magnitude cheaper and several orders of magnitude more durable. In all sincerity, why would you ever want to buy something like this?
Of course then they would limited to actual research instead of political stunts. Almost all of histories most famous research ships were wooden sailing ships and greenpeace spits on the legacy.
They need exposed as the frauds they are and for people to stop accepting the lie that they are an environmental group. They are a political group that has done more to harm environmental progress (look at their record on nuclear energy for a prime example) than anybody short of big industry.
This coming from someone /has/ worked in the recycling industry, doesn't drive a big car gives to environmental causes and so on. Give money to legitimate environmental groups, live responsibly and let this political whore / quasi terrorist organization die.
Brass tacks, bottom line is that wikipedia is a political movement, not an encyclopedia, was this your intention from the get go? Anyone challenging this need only browse contorversial topics to quickly discern the political bias that overwhelms wikipedia.
Step 1. Have an easy way to report a suspect fraud auction at the top of each and every auction. As it is now you you have to spend a fair bit of time going through menu after menu just to submit a form that will be reviewed by somebody three to five days from now. That is deplorable and inexcusable. Ebay claims to be a largely customer self policed market, fine, than let the community easily report fraud when they see it.
Step 2. They have pattern analysis data that many companies can only dream of. When some lady with a high feedback selling garden trinkets suddenly develops an interest in selling high end laptops, that should sound alarm bells.
Step 3. Require an original picture for any auction. This would cost ebay nothing since customes are chargeed for pictures anyways. Give people the ability to see what they heck someone is claiming to sell! They can easily compare existing pictures against previous ones for the same checksum.
Step 4. Minimum auction time. Fraudsters take advantage of ebays failure to give a damn in any meaningfull timely manner by posting 24 or 48 hour auctions on seized accounts. They then offer a high demand bit of hit at a too good to be true price for that time period. Since it takes days before ebay even reviews a fraud claim 99% of the time the fraudster can very safely operate in that time window.
Step 5. Acknowledge that fraud occurs in some areas more than others and act quickly in those areas! Buying a highend laptop without encountering a fraud postings is very difficult. If they put the same level of vigalance on these types of auctions they used for "unlicensed software" ebay wouldn't have half the fraud problem they do now.
Step 6. Fraud auctions often post an email address in several auctions for different hijacked accounts because that is where they really want you to send the money. Simply track email addresses used by multiple accounts and flag anything that pops up.
Bottom line is that if ebay wanted to cut fraud dramatically they could do so easily and with minimal cost. The only explanation I can think of is a deep rooted sense of denial on their part that they have a problem. Why they haven't been sued in a class action lawsuit for turning a blind eye to fraud I don't know.
My point stands, the training that Sun has costs far too much money individual IT professional. This is coming from someone that has spent quite a bit of money on IT training / education over the years. I'm certainly not opposed to instructors making a healthy living, but those classes are set for corp / gov IT budgets, not the individual, and that is my point.
What they should do though is look at programs that Novell, Microsoft and Cisco have done over the years where you can go to a community college for your classes and have a structured learning path with the guidance of the vendor. Not only do you get the vendor structure for what you should learn, you get college credit and such classes can be paid for through federal student loans. This is what Sun needs to start investing in if they want new blood and non *nix types to learn their product.
I have done the training, lab, class thing for Novell, Microsoft and Cisco, so I know how it goes when you have those resources available. Contrast that to something like Altiris where the only training is from the vendor itself (too expensive for most IT people to pay out of their own wallet) and there are no books out there. I've had to do Altiris (2 out of 3 for ACE) with nothing more than documentation and on the job experience. Things would have been a lot smoother if I'd had training materials and not just documentation to study though.
Couple historical points for you though. Most roads did not "lead" to Rome anymore than most roads today lead to Washington DC. Most roads connected disparate parts of their empire with other disparate parts. The result being that many of these disparate parts became far less disparate.
As for why did they build the roads? It certainly wasn't to bring troops to Rome itself, in fact they were forbidden from crossing the Rubicon and coming to close to Rome (something Julius Ceaser famously defied). Roads were built to help them manage their far flung empire and keep their standing professional army busy during times of peace. The natural byproduct of the road system was the economic flourishment that the empire enjoyed.
Idle troops can be very dangerous, and building the roads served as much to keep their troops busy as they did for troop transport. Rome was pretty much alone in having professional troops intead of conscripts and understood the importance of a standing army. It was on of those minor details that led to both the size and longevity of their empire.
Please, do tell me how bringing some economic prosperity to what is one of the poorest regions on the planet is harmful? Please, I want to see your insitefulness on the benefit of living in absolute desperation for generation upon generation. I want to know the benefits of the absolute conservatism that decries progress for the rest of the world.
Yes roads will shape the dynamics of communities, they will change, remove and add culture, but the greater of the whole will benefit for it. It's called progress, things change, get over it. It's good to see the road actually being built there, perhaps someday places like Africa will also see this.
Let's face it, the hiway has done more to benefit the economies of the west than any other invention of the twenieth century. The east and other parts of the world want that same benefit, and there is no reason they should not be able to have it.
Ok, ready for the anti-car nuts to flame me for not wanting everyone to live in a village or highly condensed metro area where people walk everywhere.
Message to Sun, if you want more IT people on your hardware and software, you need to make it easier for people to gain those skills (you have just made it easier to gain the hardware). Books only go so far, you have to play with it, learn it and use it to know it. I'm interested in learning Sun, but no *nix shop is going to let me in the door no matter how many years of IT experience I have with just a book education. People want education, so make it easier for the lay person to afford it, ok?
The best advocate for your product is the IT person. The best way to get the advocate is to make sure that the IT person can learn you product. I've been looking for a reasonably affordable option to get trained on Sun for years, most IT people can't talk their contract house into paying for your clases. Novell, Microsoft and Novell all have readily available classes in community colleges and the like, Sun, where are you?
So the question is, if my work has been published in printed media under someone else's name can I claim to be a "published journalist"?
First it was the H1B, then it was offshoring. The damage that these two have done to the field can never be recovered. The ironic part is now that so many people are dropping out of school or refusing to go to school for these fields now for these reasons that actually may be a genuine shortage in several years. Combine these with the fact that it's very difficult for an entry to mid level person to get a job without experience in the exact version of a product and you have successfully doomed the IT field in the US.
Too bad the US doesn't have apprentice programs such as they use in Germany.
Where I work we have the same situation. However all of IT (security, network and so on) is in the same office area. In order to secure the area they just put up a wall and secure card access. That way the only people in there are the IT people. If you can't trust your IT staff, than they don't have any business being your IT staff. That way the risk is still there, but you don't have anyone other than IT in the area to begin with.
USB 2.0 port - full size please!
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Flash card reader
Scratch resistant coating
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Make sure I can plug it in as a mass media drive without special drivers etc
Line in for audio
Rubber bumbers for shock protection
Rubber back for good grip
Built in modem for dial up when traveling
At the time that prompted learning photoshop and my first real in depth look at the Internet. In retrospect that helped spur my career in IT, by making things accesible enough for somoene who wasnt a programmer to go under the hood and make changes, to play with it.
Was it your intent to help spur interest in technology as a career, or was this just an easy way to make the game? Is making the game that easily modifiable in the future something you still plan on doing down the road?
2. Microsoft has long acknowledged their competitors and has gone to great lengths to point out that there is a #2. This might have something to do with the whole monopoly antitrust thing. Microsoft has purchased products such as VMWare and routinely produces studies where they claim to outperform "#2". The questionable nature of these studies often winds up on the pages of Slashdot, OSDN and the like. Microsoft also advertises in Linux forums like Slashdot. Really, where do you get that they don't acknowledge competition?
3. Microsoft wants to win the server wars. Unix has been losing market share, but far more to Linux than Microsoft. If they can gain that market they gain an inside track to additional markets. They also get importantly get the talent to help them have their products interoperate better with Unix and and Linux. Frankly it makes a lot more sense for Microsoft to a Linux shop like Red Hat than a Unix house like Sun. (Dont forget MS started as a Unix house.)
Ergo, when the fluid was there it carried the shockwaves we see today, ergo these waves relate to both the sound that was captured and the state of the early universe. My comment is not offtopic.
The big bang theory gained more credibility today with some news released by the National Science Foundation and collaborated by a United States team called Maxima with astronomers from the University of Minnesota and the University of California, Berkeley.
The soundwaves that were found are an impression of quantum scale energy fluctuations carried to earth by cosmic microwave background radiation. Scientists were able to measure the waves by looking at cosmic microwave background (CMB). These early soundwaves are thought to have created super and giant clusters of galaxies with their travel. The soundwaves are actually contained in primordial plasma. They are effectively overtones or harmonics of the big bang explosion that is said to have created the universe.
These soundwaves are important because they show two things that are important for understanding our universe in addition to solidifying the big bang AKA inflationary thoery.
# First of note is that the study indicates that the universe is geometrically flat, not curved. # This study also gives credence to the thoery that most of the universe is composed of dark matter.
The discoveries were made by microwave detectors in Antartica, using baloons. The study involved only about 3 percent of the sky, and looked at temperature fluctuations of only 100-millionths of a degree celcius in the CMB.
A lot of organizations out there would scrap their entire open source infrastructure in a heartbeat if they thought this would come to pass. From military applications to enterprise systems for banks, it would face wholesale expulsion. What else are they going to try and do with it, force my vote in the next election? Leave politics out of my software licenses please.
Ingenous, charge people who don't redistribute free software! I can't think of anything Microsoft has considered better news in a long, long time. Free software is no longer free. It's sorta free, well could be free, under the right circumstances is free. Ah fuck it, let me get a lawyer....
Let's see, you were slow dealing with spam complaints. Why should I be sympathetic? This is exactly the kind of thing I expect MAPS to do. The next time you get spam complaints from them you might not put it on the back burner. We need more services like theirs to take an aggresive approach.
Without this hardware you have to buy your hardware yourself. Not only is this expensive, but by the time your review is out the ad value of your review of bleeding edge hardware is kaput. Unfortunately, these are the ones that do the most honest and best reviews. Pre-release hardware is often picked out from a large selection to make sure that the review site gets a good "sample". These reviews are also the least profitable for the review sites to do. It's a nasty catch 22.
The stores are all computer controlled for their HVAC and lighting. I would spend my day working with HVAC contractors and electricians and remotely monitoring the stores. We had server room air conditioners in North Dakota and Minnesota that we had running in January, using as much free air as possible of course. I still probably know more about commercial HVAC than home.