OK I admit I have a relative or two in the plumbers Union in Toledo (no less). One item one of those people told me there are all types in the union. From raging right type to left types. They have a hard enough time voting for a president of the local, forget about national politics. My two people tell me that most union guys are working fairly hard quite a few projects. From a nuclear reactor to construction of various buildings. Right now the work is really good for the unions. It has not always been this way mind you as it is either feast or famine when it comes to union plumbers in and around Toledo. Finding one person that is willing to speak up for McCain is not that hard especially since a lot of the union types ever got past high school. Do not take this guy as representative if anything a minority.
The first question needed to be answered is "WHY is an upgrade needed?". If one, is an upgrade needed an OS or hardware? In either case I do not see why an new computer cannot be assembled and loaded on earth and shipped up there and installed by an astronaut. *IF* the idiotic people did some hardwiring and it cannot be replaced then fire the developers (and include the people that wrote the OS while you are at it). I have no sympathies for people who design an environment(computer and OS) that cannot be unscrewed and popped out and a new unit be popped in and screwed back in. This environment should have been taken into consideration in the planning stage NOT at failure time.
The form I filled out (many times no less) is at www.ftc.gov (follow the instructions) and they do have an entry on the form for spoofed callerid's. It looks like (to me) its an FTC issue. Sometimes the FTC actually does act and you do get snail mail updates. But so far no final word:(
Well I am not sure that is a valid thing to do. One specific case I have heard of is that the company advertises a job and at a pay scale that nobody in their right mind applies for it (or if they do the specs for the job change so that almost no one can qualify) BINGO all of a sudden no qualified people are available except H1B's.
I think the idea is generally OK *IF* companies do not violate the spirit of the law and that is the rub companies just see $$$$ savings. Even if they were caught the fine would be miniscule to what they save. The fine should be large enough and serious enough to make sure companies do not violate it.
I also looked at it which came first the chicken or the egg sort of quandary. I do not sure how one could prove it if it were primordial or not. Again chicken or the egg issue. Somewhere along the line I had heard that all black holes were spherical. I suppose if that is true it would be because the hole has sucked up everything and during its rotation it would even itself out. But I am guessing at best here.
Unfortunately I cannot remember the source but there have been at least one (or more) studies done on what happens when 2 or 3 or more(don't remember what the highest number was) black holes collide. I am basing this on a show I saw on the science channel. Unfortunately they didn't do a great job explaining the event after 2. But IIRC it gets pretty complicated. I would "guess" from the discussion on here (dangerous I know) that they just "merge" into a bigger Black Hole.
I have always thought that Black Holes are "leftover" from the Big Bang (well some of them anyway). It is not to far fetched that when the Big Bang happened chunks were thrown out along with other energy (some) of which has condense into matter (not milk:).
IBM is not necessarily Mr Good in all this ISO discussion. IBM has in the past been Mr BAD in other items. Can we just say IBM made a decision that was semi politically motivated? I dislike MS$ like almost everyone else and the idea of re-establishing the ISO might be a good idea as the current people are either MS$ mouths or looking for MS$ money.
Yes it is off-topic *BUT* if you believe everything a republican tells you I have a Stock Broker business I can let you have cheap for only 650 BILLION dollars.
Not a whole lot. The money that supports the drug trade (ie users) would still be there as you need money to buy drugs so money is part of the equation. The users would still need to steal or otherwise come up with the money to purchase the drugs. If you were going to GIVE it away that opens a whole side issue of state supported drug houses that would swallow up any savings as there would be quite a few doctors to run it (read lots of $$). I honestly don't see any benefit from government selling/giving drugs away. People are doubly endangered by state support drug programs. The weak will have even less incentive to not get into drugs. It is essentially a no way to win situation. Incarcerating people who do drugs just a way to throw tax payer dollars away.
There is a quote (who I do not remember authored it) that says quite a bit about arguing with people about any religious thought, idea, bible etc is that it is useless and will only lead you into a physical fight (like the crusades). You will never convince anyone that has a closed mind.
My memory is not very good but in the 60's or 70's there was a item in Analog (a science fiction magazine). This was more of a story than anything. Please note at one time Analog was an excellent magazine and since the 70's has leaped down hill and is now (is it still published??)... Anyway there was an story about these beings that were "god" like and went around creating universes in a glass like ball (as experiments). That may have been closer to the truth than anything I have seen or heard so far.
arto3 said in part: "Nearly illegal hours? Care to guess how long doctors, lawyers, engineers, and managers work? I'll give you a hint, it's also a lot."
Depends on which doctors, lawyers etc you talk to. At one company I worked 100 hour work weeks and management at best did 45. As to the others if you are talking med school law school etc then all bets are off. They are infamous for overworking their people. *IF* you are talking after graduating then it gets into which kind of drs , lawyers etc you are talking about. Lawyers who write wills probably put in 40-45 hours a week a Dr (Internist) probably puts in 50-75. I know my Dr puts in a solid 75 hours a week. He also makes 5 times my salary. Management is also extremely variable but the ones I know put in 50-60 hours a week.
Well you are correct of course but when you get management that is so screwed up that they think they need to save their jobs by screwing underlings you end up getting the "time bomb". I have worked in some seriously questionable companies. From the dishonest to the grossly mismanaged companies. There seems to be at least one common thread through both and that is managerial ineptness. If the manager is competent then his/her people will be trust worthy.
There are better email based (or web based) places to get excellent information and better accurate information as well. The listserv for IBM products is superb compared to usenet. The IBM authors actually monitor the groups and pipe up all the time. You can't even come close to the IBM Support desk. The only thing good about the the IBM support desk is that they stand behind their answers.
I sort of agree with you. I stopped using their poorly documented and less than well maintained usenet a long time ago. I went with a fee based and the provider proved to be less than good. I switched and haven't had an outage in more than a year. COMCAST SUCKS that is the best I can say. Although their support is US Based and they can at least understand English. When I have need of support I do not want language to stand in the way to get the problem resolved. If they go off shore for support I will leave them plain and simple. I tried their so called "live support" web based and it plain sucks. I have not bothered with their forums as I do not want to get off the wall advice.
More than a few university's are mandating a computer than can be hooked up the university's network. IIRC they have specs that every computer has to have that can be connected. I am not sure about this part but think it may be close as well. They also have a list of software that the student can buy at the bookstore. IIRC its a list of commonly used applications like word processing and spreadsheet and other type software. What you can do is to create the network (to every dorm and every other common student area) and through in wireless access as well. From what I understand this presents a *LOT* of on going work. My memory is iffy but I think Princeton does this as well as many others.
Well now I thought that the Virginia Court didn't really did not put much thought into this. I would be really surprised if any of the judges had an email account.
On the other hand what spam is to you or me may be acceptable to some one else (I doubt it but it is possible). While the "spam" is piling up in the bucket I truly wished that somebody would enforce the "do not call" rule breakers. I have lodged so many complaints that the FCC is getting tired of me. One of the larger abusers are the political people who disingenuously excluded themselves from the law. The politicians as usual get away with murder. Maybe it is time for a revolt and just get rid of all politicians and get in new ones.
Warning here he is NOT talking about MS Word . MS Word is notorious for needing a lot of horsepower (that means MHZ and MHZ means electrical energy needed - Unless absolute zero but that means a lot of energy to maintain absolute zero). So unless you plan to be in a abs zero place plan on spending $$ on electrical energy.
I am curious as to what it does for the ccalculations that are being done to come up with how many solarsystems that can support life. Carl Sagan (I think or was it someone else) came up with a formulae to guess the number of worlds that might contain intelligence.
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OK I admit I have a relative or two in the plumbers Union in Toledo (no less).
One item one of those people told me there are all types in the union. From raging right type to left types. They have a hard enough time voting for a president of the local, forget about national politics. My two people tell me that most union guys are working fairly hard quite a few projects. From a nuclear reactor to construction of various buildings. Right now the work is really good for the unions. It has not always been this way mind you as it is either feast or famine when it comes to union plumbers in and around Toledo. Finding one person that is willing to speak up for McCain is not that hard especially since a lot of the union types ever got past high school. Do not take this guy as representative if anything a minority.
The first question needed to be answered is "WHY is an upgrade needed?". If one, is an upgrade needed an OS or hardware? In either case I do not see why an new computer cannot be assembled and loaded on earth and shipped up there and installed by an astronaut. *IF* the idiotic people did some hardwiring and it cannot be replaced then fire the developers (and include the people that wrote the OS while you are at it). I have no sympathies for people who design an environment(computer and OS) that cannot be unscrewed and popped out and a new unit be popped in and screwed back in. This environment should have been taken into consideration in the planning stage NOT at failure time.
The form I filled out (many times no less) is at www.ftc.gov (follow the instructions) and they do have an entry on the form for spoofed callerid's. It looks like (to me) its an FTC issue. Sometimes the FTC actually does act and you do get snail mail updates. But so far no final word:(
Well I am not sure that is a valid thing to do. One specific case I have heard of is that the company advertises a job and at a pay scale that nobody in their right mind applies for it (or if they do the specs for the job change so that almost no one can qualify) BINGO all of a sudden no qualified people are available except H1B's.
I think the idea is generally OK *IF* companies do not violate the spirit of the law and that is the rub companies just see $$$$ savings. Even if they were caught the fine would be miniscule to what they save. The fine should be large enough and serious enough to make sure companies do not violate it.
I also looked at it which came first the chicken or the egg sort of quandary. I do not sure how one could prove it if it were primordial or not. Again chicken or the egg issue. Somewhere along the line I had heard that all black holes were spherical. I suppose if that is true it would be because the hole has sucked up everything and during its rotation it would even itself out. But I am guessing at best here.
Unfortunately I cannot remember the source but there have been at least one (or more) studies done on what happens when 2 or 3 or more(don't remember what the highest number was) black holes collide. I am basing this on a show I saw on the science channel. Unfortunately they didn't do a great job explaining the event after 2. But IIRC it gets pretty complicated. I would "guess" from the discussion on here (dangerous I know) that they just "merge" into a bigger Black Hole.
I have always thought that Black Holes are "leftover" from the Big Bang (well some of them anyway). It is not to far fetched that when the Big Bang happened chunks were thrown out along with other energy (some) of which has condense into matter (not milk:).
Would you really want the republicans standing around telling everyone that you are lazy people and they are the "gods" of earth?
IBM is not necessarily Mr Good in all this ISO discussion. IBM has in the past been Mr BAD in other items. Can we just say IBM made a decision that was semi politically motivated? I dislike MS$ like almost everyone else and the idea of re-establishing the ISO might be a good idea as the current people are either MS$ mouths or looking for MS$ money.
Remember Time and Space are relative.
Yes it is off-topic *BUT* if you believe everything a republican tells you I have a Stock Broker business I can let you have cheap for only 650 BILLION dollars.
Not a whole lot. The money that supports the drug trade (ie users) would still be there as you need money to buy drugs so money is part of the equation. The users would still need to steal or otherwise come up with the money to purchase the drugs. If you were going to GIVE it away that opens a whole side issue of state supported drug houses that would swallow up any savings as there would be quite a few doctors to run it (read lots of $$). I honestly don't see any benefit from government selling/giving drugs away.
People are doubly endangered by state support drug programs. The weak will have even less incentive to not get into drugs. It is essentially a no way to win situation. Incarcerating people who do drugs just a way to throw tax payer dollars away.
There is a quote (who I do not remember authored it) that says quite a bit about arguing with people about any religious thought, idea, bible etc is that it is useless and will only lead you into a physical fight (like the crusades). You will never convince anyone that has a closed mind.
My memory is not very good but in the 60's or 70's there was a item in Analog (a science fiction magazine). This was more of a story than anything. Please note at one time Analog was an excellent magazine and since the 70's has leaped down hill and is now (is it still published??) ... Anyway there was an story about these beings that were "god" like and went around creating universes in a glass like ball (as experiments). That may have been closer to the truth than anything I have seen or heard so far.
arto3 said in part:
"Nearly illegal hours? Care to guess how long doctors, lawyers, engineers, and managers work? I'll give you a hint, it's also a lot."
Depends on which doctors, lawyers etc you talk to. At one company I worked 100 hour work weeks and management at best did 45. As to the others if you are talking med school law school etc then all bets are off. They are infamous for overworking their people. *IF* you are talking after graduating then it gets into which kind of drs , lawyers etc you are talking about. Lawyers who write wills probably put in 40-45 hours a week a Dr (Internist) probably puts in 50-75.
I know my Dr puts in a solid 75 hours a week. He also makes 5 times my salary.
Management is also extremely variable but the ones I know put in 50-60 hours a week.
Well you are correct of course but when you get management that is so screwed up that they think they need to save their jobs by screwing underlings you end up getting the "time bomb".
I have worked in some seriously questionable companies. From the dishonest to the grossly mismanaged companies. There seems to be at least one common thread through both and that is managerial ineptness. If the manager is competent then his/her people will be trust worthy.
I have another name for this type of story GIGO.
There are better email based (or web based) places to get excellent information and better accurate information as well. The listserv for IBM products is superb compared to usenet. The IBM authors actually monitor the groups and pipe up all the time. You can't even come close to the IBM Support desk. The only thing good about the the IBM support desk is that they stand behind their answers.
I sort of agree with you. I stopped using their poorly documented and less than well maintained usenet a long time ago. I went with a fee based and the provider proved to be less than good. I switched and haven't had an outage in more than a year. COMCAST SUCKS that is the best I can say. Although their support is US Based and they can at least understand English. When I have need of support I do not want language to stand in the way to get the problem resolved. If they go off shore for support I will leave them plain and simple. I tried their so called "live support" web based and it plain sucks. I have not bothered with their forums as I do not want to get off the wall advice.
I stopped using PAYPAL because their servers been hacked so many times I have lost count. Its a simple thing to do really.
Just say NO to EBAY.
More than a few university's are mandating a computer than can be hooked up the university's network. IIRC they have specs that every computer has to have that can be connected. I am not sure about this part but think it may be close as well. They also have a list of software that the student can buy at the bookstore. IIRC its a list of commonly used applications like word processing and spreadsheet and other type software. What you can do is to create the network (to every dorm and every other common student area) and through in wireless access as well. From what I understand this presents a *LOT* of on going work. My memory is iffy but I think Princeton does this as well as many others.
Well now I thought that the Virginia Court didn't really did not put much thought into this. I would be really surprised if any of the judges had an email account.
On the other hand what spam is to you or me may be acceptable to some one else (I doubt it but it is possible). While the "spam" is piling up in the bucket I truly wished that somebody would enforce the "do not call" rule breakers. I have lodged so many complaints that the FCC is getting tired of me. One of the larger abusers are the political people who disingenuously excluded themselves from the law. The politicians as usual get away with murder. Maybe it is time for a revolt and just get rid of all politicians and get in new ones.
Well that is good to hear BUT I'll bet the MAJOR exclusion is FISA.
Somehow I don't think the feds will obey this.
Warning here he is NOT talking about MS Word . MS Word is notorious for needing a lot of horsepower (that means MHZ and MHZ means electrical energy needed - Unless absolute zero but that means a lot of energy to maintain absolute zero). So unless you plan to be in a abs zero place plan on spending $$ on electrical energy.
I am curious as to what it does for the ccalculations that are being done to come up with how many solarsystems that can support life. Carl Sagan (I think or was it someone else) came up with a formulae to guess the number of worlds that might contain intelligence.