No not just more fuel in, one was able to increase Supercharger boost by almost 20psi without any ill effects. He thinks he can get even higher. Most are upping boost pressures and one had the heads shaved to increase compression to 11:1.
"Additionally, there is no sane corporate structure that would allow an internal IT customer to be in a position to fire anyone outside their department."
Go piss off the CFO and see how fast your butt is fired from the accounting department. DO this to the director of marketing.... same effect.
You have not been in corporate long to realize that upper management of unrelated departments can make demands and significantly effect the IT department.
None IF the risks are truly explained and clear. Does Salesforce.com pay you for data losses? Does Salesforce.com say that if they don't back up your stuff they will pay for losses and fire the person responsible? How about data leakage? DO they take the legal liability?
I'm betting NO. their contract says they are not liable for anything and sucks to be you if they lose anything or it get's stolen.
This is never clearly spelled out or even thought about by the idiots jumping on the Cloud bandwagon. Everything in IT is a risk/Advantage. if the advantages outweigh the risks, go for it! But most rush into it without forcing the cloud company to reveal or write out in a legally binding way the risks and what they will and will not hold liability on.
I'm all for using something better, IF the risk is not larger than the reward... a Lot of times the risk is huge but everyone has their ears plugged and yelling "LALALALALALALALALA" when you ask about them.
Can you afford to lose ALL your word documents and spreadsheets COMPANY WIDE when the cloud crashes and they are lost?
And when a hacker takes all their data or they get slapped hard with a HIPPA violation or a SOX violation they will whine that IT did not warn them. And then BLAME it on IT.
Managers like that are nothing but gaping assholes that want their project done for nothing with free access for everyone, to hell with security, it's their baby they want their TOY DAMMIT!
IT has a reason for existence. It's Retarded clueless morons with MBA's that jump on every buzzword they can find and think they know IT because they read the worthless crap that is CIO magazine that are the cause of problems.
This is why I am no longer in IT and gave up my 20+ year career. I made it to department manager before I threw in the towel and went to a different market. Dipshit Directors of marketing wanting us to put something in place that is incredibly stupid and dangerous to the company because they think it's cool and are unwilling to do a pilot test. Or the Retarded Vice President of Accounting that demanded direct access to the Accounting database server from home. No a VPN into the network and using a VM is not good enough, she wants all the financial data on her LAPTOP!.. Luckily the CFO shut her up when I told him that he will be personally responsible as per SOX rules for what can happen...
The damned requirement for it to be in the gasoline. IT ruins gas mileage and the gas stations are NOT selling it for 5%-10% cheaper because that is what your gas mileage loss is from running E10. They sell that crap at full price because consumers are too stupid to know better. (Most people think that "premium" is a better gas! The lack of education in fuel that is used daily by the population is incredible)
I have a flex fuel car, it get's 25% less gas mileage when running on E85 but it's designed to run on the stuff. And all the stations around here selling it are price gouging it so hard that it's only 20% below the price of the E10.
This makes E85 a net loss for me to even use it. I can be with the enviro-freaks and waste 5% gas mileage by running E85 or I can run the E10 and get optimum gas mileage at the quality of fuel available and get the most Dollars per mile out of my expense. When E85 first came out it was 40% to 50% cheaper than gasoline so I was running it all the time in the flex fuel van. But in Michigan it's $3.29 a gallon while Indiana it's $2.59 a gallon (as seen this past weekend on a trip to Chicago) There is no $1.00 a gallon tax on it, IT's that Michigan only retailer of E85 is Meijer and they are price gouging it.
I'm done with Ethanol. Until they start using real sources like switchgrass that produce more of it per acre and actually try to make it a viable fuel that is not based on corn subsudies... it needs to go away...
EXCEPT: IT's a fantastic racing fuel. I have 10 friends that are in racing and all of them have modified their cars to use ethanol instead of racing gas. IT's cheaper and they are getting MORE power from it One friend has went from 12.2 on the quarter mile to 11.9 just by changing fuel. Plus they can afford to race at $3.29 a gallon instead of $6.89 a gallon.
Should be given as college scholarships for the kids of Seal Team 6 as well as a nice cunk of tax free cash to each of the members. IT's the right thing to do.
You can also get the pressing machines for pennies on the dollar as well. so manufacturing ramp up for the making of the disks will be significantly cheaper.
I bought a $30,000 car 3 years ago and right now I can get $60,000 from it. It's a GM prototype from the Heritage center that was sold off when GM went bust. The market for these rare cars has rebounded like a monster...
Real currencies like the Gold eagle coins that are real coins made from real gold have a value outside of currency. you can turn them into jewelery, melt them down, etc....
IF your currency is not based on Gold/Silver/Baby Bald Eagles/Dodo Eggs then it's a FAKE currency.
Nope the licensing to Sony is actually expensive. Take defunct HD-DVD tech and tweak it so you dont have to pay any royalties and suddenly... cheaper drive. even more cheaper as you can use dirt cheap red lazer assemblies instead of blue.
Requires a 320 page book to learn how to use it.....
It's an epic fail.
All of them are far harder to use than they need to be. Why the hell is there not a OSS version of what they use at Squarespace out there? any fool can create and maintain a web presence that looks great with their software. And that is what I want, I need to set up the customers site and hand it off to them to maintain the content. Let the receptionist do it... Just pay me my $50.00 a month maintenance fee for updating the software and rooting out the nasty...
you now understand politicians.. ALL OF THEM are retarded. Every word out of their mouths. WE only elect the ultra rich, and for some reason all ultra rich that have political aspirations are retarded.
I did agree, more people are hacking now than ever before, Magazines like Make and Makerfaire as well as the rise of the Hackerspace has significantly made inroads on bringing hacking back to the masses...
But the article is written by a illiterate journalist that seems to not realize that the term "Hacker" has been retaken and what he is talking about is simply a cyber-criminal or cracker.
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No not just more fuel in, one was able to increase Supercharger boost by almost 20psi without any ill effects. He thinks he can get even higher.
Most are upping boost pressures and one had the heads shaved to increase compression to 11:1.
"IT royally fucked up there..."
yes they did. they should have taken the TrueCrypt sourcecode and changed every instance of TrueCrypt to "Kingston" and then installed it.
the CIO will not know and you rolled out a correct solution to the idiot that liked the ad he saw on the golf channel.
":I'm good. I'm not fucking jesus."
Amen!
Yet we are expected to shit out a solution by lunch time.
"Instead of saying 'NO', you need to figure out a way to say 'Yes' while solving the problems that make the request 'stupid and retarded'"
Sounds like a plan, as soon as managers take PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY for the problems that it may cause.
Oh wait, you guys want us to deliver and take the fall...
Not gonna happen skippy!
"Additionally, there is no sane corporate structure that would allow an internal IT customer to be in a position to fire anyone outside their department."
Go piss off the CFO and see how fast your butt is fired from the accounting department.
DO this to the director of marketing.... same effect.
You have not been in corporate long to realize that upper management of unrelated departments can make demands and significantly effect the IT department.
"* a responsive and agile IT department. Not always 100% possible, but at least do your level best to serve, not block."
You get this by making sure that department has the money to function the way the company wants it to function.
None IF the risks are truly explained and clear. Does Salesforce.com pay you for data losses? Does Salesforce.com say that if they don't back up your stuff they will pay for losses and fire the person responsible? How about data leakage? DO they take the legal liability?
I'm betting NO. their contract says they are not liable for anything and sucks to be you if they lose anything or it get's stolen.
This is never clearly spelled out or even thought about by the idiots jumping on the Cloud bandwagon. Everything in IT is a risk/Advantage. if the advantages outweigh the risks, go for it! But most rush into it without forcing the cloud company to reveal or write out in a legally binding way the risks and what they will and will not hold liability on.
I'm all for using something better, IF the risk is not larger than the reward... a Lot of times the risk is huge but everyone has their ears plugged and yelling "LALALALALALALALALA" when you ask about them.
Can you afford to lose ALL your word documents and spreadsheets COMPANY WIDE when the cloud crashes and they are lost?
IT gets the blame.
And when a hacker takes all their data or they get slapped hard with a HIPPA violation or a SOX violation they will whine that IT did not warn them. And then BLAME it on IT.
Managers like that are nothing but gaping assholes that want their project done for nothing with free access for everyone, to hell with security, it's their baby they want their TOY DAMMIT!
IT has a reason for existence. It's Retarded clueless morons with MBA's that jump on every buzzword they can find and think they know IT because they read the worthless crap that is CIO magazine that are the cause of problems.
This is why I am no longer in IT and gave up my 20+ year career. I made it to department manager before I threw in the towel and went to a different market. Dipshit Directors of marketing wanting us to put something in place that is incredibly stupid and dangerous to the company because they think it's cool and are unwilling to do a pilot test. Or the Retarded Vice President of Accounting that demanded direct access to the Accounting database server from home. No a VPN into the network and using a VM is not good enough, she wants all the financial data on her LAPTOP!.. Luckily the CFO shut her up when I told him that he will be personally responsible as per SOX rules for what can happen...
The damned requirement for it to be in the gasoline. IT ruins gas mileage and the gas stations are NOT selling it for 5%-10% cheaper because that is what your gas mileage loss is from running E10. They sell that crap at full price because consumers are too stupid to know better. (Most people think that "premium" is a better gas! The lack of education in fuel that is used daily by the population is incredible)
I have a flex fuel car, it get's 25% less gas mileage when running on E85 but it's designed to run on the stuff. And all the stations around here selling it are price gouging it so hard that it's only 20% below the price of the E10.
This makes E85 a net loss for me to even use it. I can be with the enviro-freaks and waste 5% gas mileage by running E85 or I can run the E10 and get optimum gas mileage at the quality of fuel available and get the most Dollars per mile out of my expense. When E85 first came out it was 40% to 50% cheaper than gasoline so I was running it all the time in the flex fuel van. But in Michigan it's $3.29 a gallon while Indiana it's $2.59 a gallon (as seen this past weekend on a trip to Chicago) There is no $1.00 a gallon tax on it, IT's that Michigan only retailer of E85 is Meijer and they are price gouging it.
I'm done with Ethanol. Until they start using real sources like switchgrass that produce more of it per acre and actually try to make it a viable fuel that is not based on corn subsudies... it needs to go away...
EXCEPT: IT's a fantastic racing fuel. I have 10 friends that are in racing and all of them have modified their cars to use ethanol instead of racing gas. IT's cheaper and they are getting MORE power from it One friend has went from 12.2 on the quarter mile to 11.9 just by changing fuel. Plus they can afford to race at $3.29 a gallon instead of $6.89 a gallon.
Zuckerberg actually personally HATES anyone that does not have all their privacy settings set to "EVERYONE"
From what I hear he has a weekly hate session on Mondays with the rest of management.
Should be given as college scholarships for the kids of Seal Team 6 as well as a nice cunk of tax free cash to each of the members. IT's the right thing to do.
You can also get the pressing machines for pennies on the dollar as well. so manufacturing ramp up for the making of the disks will be significantly cheaper.
The last time I talked to a bunch of libertarians, they were more of a legalize pot mindset...
So their currency would be nice fatties, 10 jamacan fatties equal to 1 california fattie... 2 blunts to a fatty, and 4 roaches to a blunt.
Really?
I bought a $30,000 car 3 years ago and right now I can get $60,000 from it. It's a GM prototype from the Heritage center that was sold off when GM went bust. The market for these rare cars has rebounded like a monster...
Like real world FAKE currencies...
Real currencies like the Gold eagle coins that are real coins made from real gold have a value outside of currency. you can turn them into jewelery, melt them down, etc....
IF your currency is not based on Gold/Silver/Baby Bald Eagles/Dodo Eggs then it's a FAKE currency.
A PONY!
China knock offs that are grey market and dont pay the royalties can be cheaper.
look at the brand, and "goodguys" is notorious for buying B grade junk that a company is trying to offload from china.
Nope the licensing to Sony is actually expensive. Take defunct HD-DVD tech and tweak it so you dont have to pay any royalties and suddenly... cheaper drive. even more cheaper as you can use dirt cheap red lazer assemblies instead of blue.
No it wont die. It will be as successful as the platform... Take a look at the special disc format for the GameCube.
It's a physical form of DRM. which is funny, because nobody is copying the discs to other discs.. they are simply playing from a hard drive.
Requires a 320 page book to learn how to use it.....
It's an epic fail.
All of them are far harder to use than they need to be. Why the hell is there not a OSS version of what they use at Squarespace out there? any fool can create and maintain a web presence that looks great with their software. And that is what I want, I need to set up the customers site and hand it off to them to maintain the content. Let the receptionist do it... Just pay me my $50.00 a month maintenance fee for updating the software and rooting out the nasty...
"is just retarded."
you now understand politicians.. ALL OF THEM are retarded. Every word out of their mouths. WE only elect the ultra rich, and for some reason all ultra rich that have political aspirations are retarded.
And thus you have discovered what Skynet decided about humanity and started the extermination of the human race...
DRM will be our downfall....
I did agree, more people are hacking now than ever before, Magazines like Make and Makerfaire as well as the rise of the Hackerspace has significantly made inroads on bringing hacking back to the masses...
But the article is written by a illiterate journalist that seems to not realize that the term "Hacker" has been retaken and what he is talking about is simply a cyber-criminal or cracker.
"I'm handing back my masters degree in IT plus a lifetime of experience"
and with all that you are still NOT an engineer.
Please try a REAL engineering degree like EE.