Learned to play the guitar (badly). Learned to dance (just enough to look and feel confident). Learned to cook, and present the output nicely on a plate. Got fit. Ignore any fad diets, the best way is to grab a "Get fit for the army" type poster from your local armed forces office and *follow* it. Went to lots of parties. If you can't get any invites, start some of your own. Relax. It takes time for you to become more personable and socially aware. It takes time for people you meet to know you. Outcome? Epic win. I'm going out with a British model, who is also a programmer!
...it looks a hell of a lot bad ass when you open up a system that's got it's guts exposed and just start hot-swappin' like a mofo
A mechanic was removing a cylinder-head from the motor of a Harley motorcycle when he spotted a well-known cardiologist in his shop. The cardiologist was there waiting for the service manager to come take a look at his bike when the mechanic shouted across the garage "Hey Doc, want to take a look at this?"
The cardiologist walked over to where the mechanic was working on the motorcycle. The mechanic straightened up, wiped his hands on a rag and said, "So Doc, look at this engine. I open its heart, take the valves out, repair any damage, and then put them back in, and when I finish, it works just like new. So how come I make $25,000 a year and you get $160,000 when you and I are doing basically the same work?"
The cardiologist paused, smiled and leaned over, then whispered to the mechanic...
why the US government is pouring billions into buying companies instead of heavily funding useful research. You can give $10 billion to a company to squander or you can invest $10 billion into a battery research and just give the findings to the whole of the US industry for free
You're linking two not-really-related issues. Bailouts for large companies are intended to avoid a chain reaction of collapses and thus preserve economic confidence. Publicly funded "Blue Sky" research will provide for very long term improvements to the human race from scientific progress. If you're wanting to increase the money supply to prevent a recession, you're better off allocating the cash to areas that can absorb them readily (such as construction and consumer finance). Or just get Ben Bernanke a helicopter...
What a god awful method... pay for service to a service person who is already paid to do the job they are asking you to do.
You have misunderstood the OP, and basic economic theory. Dealing with a rush job is costly to the IT staff, and to the other customers whose jobs are delayed in response. Recovering the full cost of such a job is the only way to not waste resources. Without such cost recovery, people will gladly cause a loss to other internal divisions of $80000 to save their own division $500, and everyone will flag their jobs as "rush".
He is not advocating getting paid twice for the same job.
As NZer, one of the huge issues with have with hydro is that the capacity varies, and due to environmental regulations we don't have enough fossil backup. As a consequence, in winter there is a period where everyone prays for rain, and if there isn't enough of it, the lights go out and the country incurs hundreds of millions of dollars in costs due to lost productivity.
Transmission losses are one of the biggest arguments in heating the home with gas vs. electric, since with gas you're getting 100% of the avalible heat from the fuel, as opposed to electric where at most 90% of the heat is converted into electricity at the plant, you lose another 7% in transmission and then another 1-2% in the heater itself = 18-19% energy loss from a coal or natural gas power plant vs. heating with gas in the home
There is a "loss" that comes from building a natural gas AND electricity infrastructure, instead of just one or the other. It's easier to go from electricity to heat, instead of natural gas to electricity.
Yes, I am a molecular biologist by training. This won't work. The reason genetic engineering is carried out in labs is because it requires expert knowledge of protocols, and expensive equipment. In TFA, one of the people interviewed is trying to insert a targeted florescent marker, and struggling. This is fairly trivial to do in the lab, but only with good understanding of basic principles, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gear and consumables, and tested/documented protocols. You can't build a space shuttle in your backyard, neither can you successfully build a recombinant bacterium that meets spec in your garage. Just because cells are squishy does not make this equivalent to software development!
You'll have to figure out how to structure the interview yourself, and there's lots to choose from. Multi-day, multi-level? Parametric testing or not? Throw in a practical test or scenario?
But really what you're likely to get it a huge pile of tradeoffs in many dimensions. The CCIE who can design and maintain a rock-solid network may have poor people skills. The developer who writes mediocre code might be cheap enough to hire so you can train him. The uber genius who can solve any problem in before he's heard about it, and works great with anyone, will have 7 other jobs offers to consider, and you'll have to compensate him well to get him to work for you.
The old guy? He's got experience, but he might also be set in his ways and less open to new ideas. The new guy? Enthusiasm, but he ain't seen nothin' yet.
Make it a feature of the OS that it will flag trojans and malware. Nothing to install or configure, it just does it. Virus signature updates just get installed transparently via Windows Updates. Savvy users can opt-out, just like they can with UAC and Windows Firewall. If anyone does need "extra-strength protection", they can go ahead and install whatever they like.
As to the wider issue of anti-trust; you can't complain that the OS is insecure, and then complain that steps MS takes to secure it are an abuse of their monopoly power.
This might even work well enough that botnets will dwindle as systems become more secure. The only people who might lose, are AV companies. Tough. You're not *entitled* to the AV market. And I've seen enough pushy sales tactics and ineffective programs *cough*Nortons*cough* to have little sympathy.
I wonder how all those security researchers feel after destroying a legitimate commercial enterprise and affecting a lot of people who weren't spammers.
RTFA. They reported TOS violations to upstream providers. It's not like they firebombed the data center. Furthermore, the presence of legitimate clients isn't that great a defense - lots of criminal enterprises have "fronts" that do legit business to mask the illegal activities.
Urine is water with stuff dissolved in it. Remove the solutes, and you get water again, which is all that this process is doing. There is nothing special about it, nature has been doing this for a long__________ time, as has the republic of Singapore
...I can get one that will go on site, and zap the (l)user if the problem does, in fact, exist BCAK. And then set their cubicle on fire using its tiny rockets.
The end of the SUV...being used as a soccer-mom's vehicle of choice, yes. And about time too. Of course, they won't go away anytime soon - lots of people actually do need a rigid-frame, 4WD vehicle (e.g. several hundred thousand Australian and NZ farmers). The right tool for the right job, as always!
Exactly, because it only takes one person to figure out how to bypass the protection - everyone else who doesn't know how, still knows to look on The Pirate Bay for the cracked content. The person who loses is the normal consumer who has to put up with 3 minutes of splash screen, "Insert Disc 1", and who can't play the game if he loses one of the CDs/DVDs it came on
Given that we don't really know how many distinct types of animal/plant/organism currently exist, it's a bit of a stretch to say that biodiversity is declining. Certainly, it's declining in the areas we can easily get to to measure, which is as expected!
Exploration and research are non-specious long term investments. And when realized, they will benefit even those staunchly opposed to the idea of more space exploration.
Perhaps to prevent proliferation of patent applications like this that just waste the examiners time, the patent system could charge fees that start at the marginal cost of examining a patent (e.g. $500), and then double after every n-th patent. That way Microsoft/Bigcorps who hold tens of thousands of patents will at least have to choose which applications to submit, and allows for a properly funded patents office. Who can then turn down applications like this one.
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Learned to play the guitar (badly). Learned to dance (just enough to look and feel confident). Learned to cook, and present the output nicely on a plate. Got fit. Ignore any fad diets, the best way is to grab a "Get fit for the army" type poster from your local armed forces office and *follow* it. Went to lots of parties. If you can't get any invites, start some of your own. Relax. It takes time for you to become more personable and socially aware. It takes time for people you meet to know you. Outcome? Epic win. I'm going out with a British model, who is also a programmer!
...it looks a hell of a lot bad ass when you open up a system that's got it's guts exposed and just start hot-swappin' like a mofo
A mechanic was removing a cylinder-head from the motor of a Harley motorcycle when he spotted a well-known cardiologist in his shop. The cardiologist was there waiting for the service manager to come take a look at his bike when the mechanic shouted across the garage "Hey Doc, want to take a look at this?"
The cardiologist walked over to where the mechanic was working on the motorcycle. The mechanic straightened up, wiped his hands on a rag and said, "So Doc, look at this engine. I open its heart, take the valves out, repair any damage, and then put them back in, and when I finish, it works just like new. So how come I make $25,000 a year and you get $160,000 when you and I are doing basically the same work?"
The cardiologist paused, smiled and leaned over, then whispered to the mechanic...
"Try doing it with the engine running!"
why the US government is pouring billions into buying companies instead of heavily funding useful research. You can give $10 billion to a company to squander or you can invest $10 billion into a battery research and just give the findings to the whole of the US industry for free
You're linking two not-really-related issues. Bailouts for large companies are intended to avoid a chain reaction of collapses and thus preserve economic confidence. Publicly funded "Blue Sky" research will provide for very long term improvements to the human race from scientific progress. If you're wanting to increase the money supply to prevent a recession, you're better off allocating the cash to areas that can absorb them readily (such as construction and consumer finance). Or just get Ben Bernanke a helicopter...
What a god awful method... pay for service to a service person who is already paid to do the job they are asking you to do.
You have misunderstood the OP, and basic economic theory. Dealing with a rush job is costly to the IT staff, and to the other customers whose jobs are delayed in response. Recovering the full cost of such a job is the only way to not waste resources. Without such cost recovery, people will gladly cause a loss to other internal divisions of $80000 to save their own division $500, and everyone will flag their jobs as "rush".
He is not advocating getting paid twice for the same job.
As NZer, one of the huge issues with have with hydro is that the capacity varies, and due to environmental regulations we don't have enough fossil backup. As a consequence, in winter there is a period where everyone prays for rain, and if there isn't enough of it, the lights go out and the country incurs hundreds of millions of dollars in costs due to lost productivity.
Transmission losses are one of the biggest arguments in heating the home with gas vs. electric, since with gas you're getting 100% of the avalible heat from the fuel, as opposed to electric where at most 90% of the heat is converted into electricity at the plant, you lose another 7% in transmission and then another 1-2% in the heater itself = 18-19% energy loss from a coal or natural gas power plant vs. heating with gas in the home
There is a "loss" that comes from building a natural gas AND electricity infrastructure, instead of just one or the other. It's easier to go from electricity to heat, instead of natural gas to electricity.
Yes, I am a molecular biologist by training. This won't work. The reason genetic engineering is carried out in labs is because it requires expert knowledge of protocols, and expensive equipment. In TFA, one of the people interviewed is trying to insert a targeted florescent marker, and struggling. This is fairly trivial to do in the lab, but only with good understanding of basic principles, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gear and consumables, and tested/documented protocols. You can't build a space shuttle in your backyard, neither can you successfully build a recombinant bacterium that meets spec in your garage. Just because cells are squishy does not make this equivalent to software development!
You'll have to figure out how to structure the interview yourself, and there's lots to choose from. Multi-day, multi-level? Parametric testing or not? Throw in a practical test or scenario?
But really what you're likely to get it a huge pile of tradeoffs in many dimensions. The CCIE who can design and maintain a rock-solid network may have poor people skills. The developer who writes mediocre code might be cheap enough to hire so you can train him. The uber genius who can solve any problem in before he's heard about it, and works great with anyone, will have 7 other jobs offers to consider, and you'll have to compensate him well to get him to work for you.
The old guy? He's got experience, but he might also be set in his ways and less open to new ideas. The new guy? Enthusiasm, but he ain't seen nothin' yet.
Make it a feature of the OS that it will flag trojans and malware. Nothing to install or configure, it just does it. Virus signature updates just get installed transparently via Windows Updates. Savvy users can opt-out, just like they can with UAC and Windows Firewall. If anyone does need "extra-strength protection", they can go ahead and install whatever they like.
As to the wider issue of anti-trust; you can't complain that the OS is insecure, and then complain that steps MS takes to secure it are an abuse of their monopoly power.
This might even work well enough that botnets will dwindle as systems become more secure. The only people who might lose, are AV companies. Tough. You're not *entitled* to the AV market. And I've seen enough pushy sales tactics and ineffective programs *cough*Nortons*cough* to have little sympathy.
I wonder how all those security researchers feel after destroying a legitimate commercial enterprise and affecting a lot of people who weren't spammers.
RTFA. They reported TOS violations to upstream providers. It's not like they firebombed the data center. Furthermore, the presence of legitimate clients isn't that great a defense - lots of criminal enterprises have "fronts" that do legit business to mask the illegal activities.
Urine is water with stuff dissolved in it. Remove the solutes, and you get water again, which is all that this process is doing. There is nothing special about it, nature has been doing this for a long__________ time, as has the republic of Singapore
...I can get one that will go on site, and zap the (l)user if the problem does, in fact, exist BCAK. And then set their cubicle on fire using its tiny rockets.
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The end of the SUV...being used as a soccer-mom's vehicle of choice, yes. And about time too. Of course, they won't go away anytime soon - lots of people actually do need a rigid-frame, 4WD vehicle (e.g. several hundred thousand Australian and NZ farmers). The right tool for the right job, as always!
...that parody is protected speech?
Exactly, because it only takes one person to figure out how to bypass the protection - everyone else who doesn't know how, still knows to look on The Pirate Bay for the cracked content. The person who loses is the normal consumer who has to put up with 3 minutes of splash screen, "Insert Disc 1", and who can't play the game if he loses one of the CDs/DVDs it came on
Given that we don't really know how many distinct types of animal/plant/organism currently exist, it's a bit of a stretch to say that biodiversity is declining. Certainly, it's declining in the areas we can easily get to to measure, which is as expected!
Exploration and research are non-specious long term investments. And when realized, they will benefit even those staunchly opposed to the idea of more space exploration.
Perhaps to prevent proliferation of patent applications like this that just waste the examiners time, the patent system could charge fees that start at the marginal cost of examining a patent (e.g. $500), and then double after every n-th patent. That way Microsoft/Bigcorps who hold tens of thousands of patents will at least have to choose which applications to submit, and allows for a properly funded patents office. Who can then turn down applications like this one.