What use are cycles? Good question. we have a couple hundred systems in a compute farm. Our goal is to keep them 100% busy. We aren't there, but we have a high usage rate. We're getting ready to buy 50 more Core 2 Duos. Misue of this information could easily hose project deadlines.
You need to get out into a broader segment of teh computing world. 8^/
If you're OK being THE IT guy, or one of very few, then any small shop is a good place to look.
As far as marketing, just be honest and be yourself. The better, smaller employers look for that, and being yourself helps make sure it's a good personality fit, which matters more in small shops as well.
Apart from the band and other artist members, myspace is primarily a social networking site for teenagers and young adults. Depending on the teens and young adults you know, your view of myspace can be anything from "facebook with lots of overdone HTML" to "nothing but survey bulletins of 'would you kiss #4 on the left little toe? What color underwear would you wear while you did it?'"
Myspace and text messaging are how a *lot* of young Americans keep in touch. I stay in touch with at least a hundred young people from middle school through post-college years (so far). Quite a few of them depend on myspace, IM, and text messaging for 90% or more of their communication.
A much smaller group depends on facebook. I'll agree this is primarily a college or college-bound crowd; they also seem less likely to depend on text messaging. Not sure about IM.
Now linkedin is beginning to demand my attention, too, for my day job (which seldom has anything to do with teenagers). I'm apparently odd man out there, because I had to be forced nearly at gunpoint by my job to carry a cell phone, and refuse to even think about a PDA. I'm kinda old school for a high tech guy...
There's a whole different set of class divisions the author didn't really address (and said so right up front). In real life, which carries over into myspace (not sure about facebook) a huge number of teens care *very* much about these classes-- kickers vs rappers vs hiphoppers vs preps vs emos vs goths, etc. But every single class is heavily represented on myspace. The class distinctions (mostly) carry over to friends lists there, somewhat akin to the distinction the author hypothesizes for the myspace/facebook division.
I suspect there are quite a few serious research papers waiting to be written on these topics...
When parents read to their kids from day 1, and make it fun, and encourage them and help them read, the kids tend to end up with a propensity not only for reading, but learning. When parents just plop them in front of the TV, they have a propensity towards being couch potatoes.
``But they were watching Sesame Street, so it must be the school's fault they aren't making Straight A's!''
If you count on the technology to do the teaching, you aren't teaching!!!!
Then you have to learn how to use tools and weapons, and earn your way to them.
Then you either get the librarian on your side to battle who knows what to get the information (or maybe just pick it up incidentally along the way), or you have to fight the librarian, and if you win, you get the information; if you lose, they stand over you beating you with a velver covered Webster's Unabridged, going, "Shhhh!!!!!!"
The text in that paragraph is certainly ambiguous; it can easily mean either that the conversations are to take place publicly, or that they will be made public, with no clear definition of when that is to take place (in that paragraph).
Give that part of the reason for the event appears to be for government officials to speak freely, I can easily see why they would want to limit participation and observation, especially by the media. Everyone has to decide for themselves whether that's good or bad, but it's very logical. For some time now it has been dangerous for government workers to be honest, especially in public. (Anyone attempting to blame a single administration or party for that is, IMO, an utter fool. It's pandemic.)
There may or may not be a story here, but it's not the one the OP quoted. That's just noise from a media person with a chip on their shoulder.
1) Early in my career, a VP walked into my office and asked me to steal a copy of a competitor's source code. I refused. I later found out he'd already asked someone else more senior, who had also refused. He eventually came to his senses, and never asked us to do anything unethical or illegal again. Everyone lived happily ever after.
2) A few years later at another company, two C?Os kept a vendor busy while another VP "borrowed" a copy of their code "until we can afford to pay it back". The rest of us found out about this when the company got sued. Not long after, the company went into bankruptcy and everyone was laid off. Just before thanksgiving. Happy holidays to all the rest of us. I don't think it came to criminal proceedings against the officers of the company, but it very well could have. Civil suits were also filed against the CEO/CFO team, and they declared personal bankruptcy as well.
So which boat would you rather be in?
I know, you could end up getting chunked out of the boat all together. At that point, I'd drop the hammer on them. If you think think that's a likely scenario, speak with a lawyer NOW so if they threaten you, you know what to say. That might solve teh problem.
As others have noted, it's common to have an SLA for the full bandwidth of the T1.
It's also common to have a good SLA WRT uptime and response time for incidents.
This company originally had a T1 through Alternet/UUnet. If we rebooted the router, they called to check on us. There were times they called to check on things when we weren't even aware we'd had a glitch. They got bought. As far as I could tell, nothing changed. Then they merged or got bought again. If it changed, it sure wasn't much. They were still pricy, but well worth it. Then they got bought/merged/whatever the last time. And suddenly it was all quite random. We could be down an hour and might not get a call. (Until this last merger we'd never been down more than a couple of minutes, and those were precious few.) If we called about something, it was 50/50 whether we'd get a helpful, knowledgeable tech or someone either clueless or who just didn't care. Numerous emails and calls to our sales rep were not returned over a several week period.
So we switched to CoreNAP (local to Austin). Cheaper, and the class of service we were used to. fast responses. Savvy techs. Sales reps who cared. Life is good again.
We did eventually hear from a new sales rep at our former T1 provider, but it was too late. he was quite helpful in shutting down the old account, as was their support group, so maybe the escalated email informing them we were switching providers got someone's attention. I wish them well; it's depressing to see one of the best rotting away.
Meanwhile, we have two bonded T1s here. 3Mb/sec. We have about 90 people here using this, with 10 people remote. In the evening, we might have 20-30 engineers remotely working through those measly two T1s. And I still see better performance than I do at home with 4.5Mb/sec cable modem in the daytime, much less evenings and weekends.
So it's both real world performance and real world support.
A few years ago I installed a new release of a major vendor's OS. Unbeknownst to me, they had gone from a default secure model to a default open model. Before I finished checking out the security, someone had hacked in, installed a rootkit, and was using my system to attack a major financial institution. Their security guy contacted my ISP who contacted me. I yanked the ethernet cable, tracked everything down, saved the evidence (logs, binaries, etc), finished tightening the security, and hooked back up. I sent email to the financial firm's IT guy, and called the FBI's group responsible for such things. Neither ever bothered to get back to me. Maybe they got the guy anyway, but as far as I could tell, they just weren't going to bother.
Presumably this was supposed to be a joke, but just in case...
If you read Fermilab's press release, you'll note that Fermi and CERN followed proper procedures, with Fermi running reviews including both CERN and third party labs. NOBODY seems to have caught this. So if someone does want to propagate conspiracy theories, they'll need a wider net than merely inter-lab rivalry.
[Egging them on dept: I suggest watching _National Treasure_ a few times; there are lots of hidden clues in there. Good thing people foresaw this coming in a supercollider centuries ago!]
This is, after all, PC World. What's their context? It starts with the days of the PC (and I don't mean the IBM trademark). So for them, time started somewhere in the 70s, but the 70s products were too primitive to directly impact a huge portion of society, even if they did change a lot of our lives. I never built an Altair, but I lusted after such kits, and designed them on paper.
So I wouldn't expect their definition of "tech products" to include steam trains, electric tools, gas grills, etc.
You seem to have chosen a hacker or geek basis for ranking. Sure, the C64 came first, and I learned Basic on it, too. But it didn't impact the public the way the Amiga 1000 did. Go back and reread their criteria.
I'm not saying I agree with everything they picked, just that I disagree with you on what their basis is. Their goal was to find the things that affected John and Jane Q. Public, not just Fred and Freda X. Hacker.
Slashdot Mirror
...Thing? Is that you?
...am afraid that we're doomed.
What use are cycles? Good question. we have a couple hundred systems in a compute farm. Our goal is to keep them 100% busy. We aren't there, but we have a high usage rate. We're getting ready to buy 50 more Core 2 Duos. Misue of this information could easily hose project deadlines.
You need to get out into a broader segment of teh computing world. 8^/
That doesn't help if you can't upgrade to 2.6 on production machines...
If you're OK being THE IT guy, or one of very few, then any small shop is a good place to look.
As far as marketing, just be honest and be yourself. The better, smaller employers look for that, and being yourself helps make sure it's a good personality fit, which matters more in small shops as well.
It also seems possible that MS is just trying to shrink how much they have to pay engineers...
Apart from the band and other artist members, myspace is primarily a social networking site for teenagers and young adults. Depending on the teens and young adults you know, your view of myspace can be anything from "facebook with lots of overdone HTML" to "nothing but survey bulletins of 'would you kiss #4 on the left little toe? What color underwear would you wear while you did it?'"
Myspace and text messaging are how a *lot* of young Americans keep in touch. I stay in touch with at least a hundred young people from middle school through post-college years (so far). Quite a few of them depend on myspace, IM, and text messaging for 90% or more of their communication.
A much smaller group depends on facebook. I'll agree this is primarily a college or college-bound crowd; they also seem less likely to depend on text messaging. Not sure about IM.
Now linkedin is beginning to demand my attention, too, for my day job (which seldom has anything to do with teenagers). I'm apparently odd man out there, because I had to be forced nearly at gunpoint by my job to carry a cell phone, and refuse to even think about a PDA. I'm kinda old school for a high tech guy...
There's a whole different set of class divisions the author didn't really address (and said so right up front). In real life, which carries over into myspace (not sure about facebook) a huge number of teens care *very* much about these classes-- kickers vs rappers vs hiphoppers vs preps vs emos vs goths, etc. But every single class is heavily represented on myspace. The class distinctions (mostly) carry over to friends lists there, somewhat akin to the distinction the author hypothesizes for the myspace/facebook division.
I suspect there are quite a few serious research papers waiting to be written on these topics...
When parents read to their kids from day 1, and make it fun, and encourage them and help them read, the kids tend to end up with a propensity not only for reading, but learning. When parents just plop them in front of the TV, they have a propensity towards being couch potatoes.
``But they were watching Sesame Street, so it must be the school's fault they aren't making Straight A's!''
If you count on the technology to do the teaching, you aren't teaching!!!!
First you have to define or pick the quest.
Then you have to learn how to use tools and weapons, and earn your way to them.
Then you either get the librarian on your side to battle who knows what to get the information (or maybe just pick it up incidentally along the way), or you have to fight the librarian, and if you win, you get the information; if you lose, they stand over you beating you with a velver covered Webster's Unabridged, going, "Shhhh!!!!!!"
...you wouldn't post things like this the day after I watch all three Matrix movies back to back to back...
The text in that paragraph is certainly ambiguous; it can easily mean either that the conversations are to take place publicly, or that they will be made public, with no clear definition of when that is to take place (in that paragraph).
Give that part of the reason for the event appears to be for government officials to speak freely, I can easily see why they would want to limit participation and observation, especially by the media. Everyone has to decide for themselves whether that's good or bad, but it's very logical. For some time now it has been dangerous for government workers to be honest, especially in public. (Anyone attempting to blame a single administration or party for that is, IMO, an utter fool. It's pandemic.)
There may or may not be a story here, but it's not the one the OP quoted. That's just noise from a media person with a chip on their shoulder.
More like 300 lbs.
Unless these are the new, improved kilograms.
Or maybe there's now a Euro kilogram? The eurokilogram, the EKG!
Namespace overload. Hurrah!
...will scan your fingerprints, and if you aren't cleared for the document, the paper can start singing "you can't touch this!"
2007? 2008? 2017?
At the rate we're going, Belgium, Ethiopia and Rhode Island will have space fleets before THE USA does much else in space.
Texas needs to get its rear in gear on this.
1) Early in my career, a VP walked into my office and asked me to steal a copy of a competitor's source code. I refused. I later found out he'd already asked someone else more senior, who had also refused. He eventually came to his senses, and never asked us to do anything unethical or illegal again. Everyone lived happily ever after.
2) A few years later at another company, two C?Os kept a vendor busy while another VP "borrowed" a copy of their code "until we can afford to pay it back". The rest of us found out about this when the company got sued. Not long after, the company went into bankruptcy and everyone was laid off. Just before thanksgiving. Happy holidays to all the rest of us. I don't think it came to criminal proceedings against the officers of the company, but it very well could have. Civil suits were also filed against the CEO/CFO team, and they declared personal bankruptcy as well.
So which boat would you rather be in?
I know, you could end up getting chunked out of the boat all together. At that point, I'd drop the hammer on them. If you think think that's a likely scenario, speak with a lawyer NOW so if they threaten you, you know what to say. That might solve teh problem.
Microsoft bashes an Apple product! Amazing! Stop the presses! This is unbelievable! Who would have guessed???
As others have noted, it's common to have an SLA for the full bandwidth of the T1.
It's also common to have a good SLA WRT uptime and response time for incidents.
This company originally had a T1 through Alternet/UUnet. If we rebooted the router, they called to check on us. There were times they called to check on things when we weren't even aware we'd had a glitch. They got bought. As far as I could tell, nothing changed. Then they merged or got bought again. If it changed, it sure wasn't much. They were still pricy, but well worth it. Then they got bought/merged/whatever the last time. And suddenly it was all quite random. We could be down an hour and might not get a call. (Until this last merger we'd never been down more than a couple of minutes, and those were precious few.) If we called about something, it was 50/50 whether we'd get a helpful, knowledgeable tech or someone either clueless or who just didn't care. Numerous emails and calls to our sales rep were not returned over a several week period.
So we switched to CoreNAP (local to Austin). Cheaper, and the class of service we were used to. fast responses. Savvy techs. Sales reps who cared. Life is good again.
We did eventually hear from a new sales rep at our former T1 provider, but it was too late. he was quite helpful in shutting down the old account, as was their support group, so maybe the escalated email informing them we were switching providers got someone's attention. I wish them well; it's depressing to see one of the best rotting away.
Meanwhile, we have two bonded T1s here. 3Mb/sec. We have about 90 people here using this, with 10 people remote. In the evening, we might have 20-30 engineers remotely working through those measly two T1s. And I still see better performance than I do at home with 4.5Mb/sec cable modem in the daytime, much less evenings and weekends.
So it's both real world performance and real world support.
...don't get your hopes up.
A few years ago I installed a new release of a major vendor's OS. Unbeknownst to me, they had gone from a default secure model to a default open model. Before I finished checking out the security, someone had hacked in, installed a rootkit, and was using my system to attack a major financial institution. Their security guy contacted my ISP who contacted me. I yanked the ethernet cable, tracked everything down, saved the evidence (logs, binaries, etc), finished tightening the security, and hooked back up. I sent email to the financial firm's IT guy, and called the FBI's group responsible for such things. Neither ever bothered to get back to me. Maybe they got the guy anyway, but as far as I could tell, they just weren't going to bother.
Within just a few minutes, CW was slashdotted. It's mindboggling that any real media company converting to the web can't handle the hit rate.
Presumably this was supposed to be a joke, but just in case...
If you read Fermilab's press release, you'll note that Fermi and CERN followed proper procedures, with Fermi running reviews including both CERN and third party labs. NOBODY seems to have caught this. So if someone does want to propagate conspiracy theories, they'll need a wider net than merely inter-lab rivalry.
[Egging them on dept: I suggest watching _National Treasure_ a few times; there are lots of hidden clues in there. Good thing people foresaw this coming in a supercollider centuries ago!]
/., dilbert & userfriendly. I get the rest of the news from the radio during drive time. The net isn't iedal for while I'm driving...
Myspace to keep up with about 50 teenagers, and ax84.com for tube amps.
That translates into way too much time on the net each week, but oh well.
This is, after all, PC World. What's their context? It starts with the days of the PC (and I don't mean the IBM trademark). So for them, time started somewhere in the 70s, but the 70s products were too primitive to directly impact a huge portion of society, even if they did change a lot of our lives. I never built an Altair, but I lusted after such kits, and designed them on paper.
So I wouldn't expect their definition of "tech products" to include steam trains, electric tools, gas grills, etc.
You seem to have chosen a hacker or geek basis for ranking. Sure, the C64 came first, and I learned Basic on it, too. But it didn't impact the public the way the Amiga 1000 did. Go back and reread their criteria.
I'm not saying I agree with everything they picked, just that I disagree with you on what their basis is. Their goal was to find the things that affected John and Jane Q. Public, not just Fred and Freda X. Hacker.
No, they listed *products*. You are referring to *technologies*. Technology products are built on top of technologies. They are different things.
The Palm Pilot 1000 is there. Did you read the article. or just scan the list someone posted on /.?