Now that we have sensitive high-tech equipment we can detect events that will damage sensitive high-tech equipment so we can save our sensitive high-tech equipment!
My department wanted to hire me (46 y.o.) a younger "assistant" to help with all my duties. Mostly they're nervous that I'll leave and be hard to replace. So HR asked for the skills and qualifications I have that are needed for the jobs and projects that I do.
After getting the list and doing some research, HR told them they would need to hire 3 or 4 younger people to meet those qualifications, at a cost of at least 2 to 3 times my salary.
So yeah, experience beats youthful enthusiasm every damn day. Get yourself some experience, kids.
After all, if you aren't doing anything wrong, why would you care if someone is watching you? It just proves that Apple owners are the most honest, clean (no porn!), decent people in the world.
IT infrastructure should be handled by an IT department (network, server & storage support, basic desktop supply and support) but it should NOT handle such things as database development and management, application development, etc.
Unfortunately, many companies class anything to do with a computer as "IT" and treat a DBA the way they treat a desktop support flunky. Many times I have worked for organizations that decided to grab every departmental programmer or DBA and bring him/her into the IT department, to the severe detriment of the department he/she used to support.
At one company I worked for they outsourced all the IT and made the programmers, DBAs, developers, etc. go work for the contractor. Lots of them quit and went to better jobs, so the contractor brought in many of their folks from India to fill the open positions. It was a disaster. Eventually most of the departments hired developers, DBA's, programmers, etc. of their own and just gave them all generic "Engineer" titles.
Best advice: Listen to the others working there. THEY know what's going on, you don't. Don't talk unless you're asking a question for the first several months and LISTEN to the answers. DO NOT speak ill of anyone.
Now, the first guy to start telling you how things are and offers lots of unsolicited advice is probably the office blowhard. Take all his (and it will be a male) advice with a large grain of salt.
You should NEVER answer questions when being questioned. NO MATTER WHAT.
It can never be said enough: ALWAYS follow the above advice.
Cops and prosecutors are as lazy as anyone else and ten times as suspicious as anyone else. YOU are their first suspect because you have your mouth open and you have some knowledge of the crime.
NOTHING good comes of talking to them without a lawyer present. NO matter HOW innocent you are.
I used to be the designated person to report missing property when I worked for the state IT dept. (Probably because I was the whitest, most eloquent and innocent looking person working there.) I've been seriously grilled, accused and even cuffed to a chair once when REPORTING crimes. I had to do this at least once a quarter. I quickly realized why my boss (an older black woman) had me do it instead of her.
This reminds me of the HD plasma screens stuck all over the three Peppermill-owned casinos in Wendover, NV. Gives you pretty scenes to look at while you wait for things or gamble with grandma.
When I worked for the state there was a company contracted to develop a whole suite of Windows applications to move us off the old VAX green-screen interfaces into the modern world. Most of the department ran on Windows NT 4.
So naturally, the contractor developed all of their applications on a Windows NT 3.51 emulator running under OS/2.
Aaaaand after millions of dollars spent, the contractor demonstrated their applications (working flawlessly under the emulator in OS/2) got their money and high-tailed it, leaving us IT schlubs to implement the applications. All the apps immediately crashed when we attempted to run them in the real NT 4 environment. We never did get them working, except on the few workstations actually running OS/2 with an NT emulator.
Your tax dollars at work. Remember kids, watch your specifications when hiring a contractor!
Japanese people aren't especially known for their legginess.
YOU have obviously never been to Tokyo. All I remember is legs. All women between the ages of 16 and 36 seem to wear is miniskirts or short-shorts. When it gets cold they put on thigh-high hose.
A leg man will go crazy in Tokyo. I have banned one of my best friends from ever going, as he is rather infatuated with legs.
AFAIK it's just a jumping off point for Big Bend Ranch State Park. Or a gateway into Mexico for the Chihuahua-Pacifico railroad. If you want a scenic, lonely drive go from Ft. Davis -> Marfa -> Presidio -> Lajitas/Terlingua/Study Butte ->Alpine ->Ft Davis. Don't forget to visit McDonald Observatory!
They built a real fence. Billions of your tax dollars went into it. Go down to the border and see it. It's huge and imposing and I don't think I could get over it.
I know a landscaper who hires laborers. He hires legal laborers if they are available, illegals if they aren't. Both get $100 for a day of work digging sprinkler systems and moving dirt, legal or illegal. He finds it hard to hire legals to do the work.
When the fence went up my friend asked the illegals if the fence made it harder to get into the U.S.
"Oh yes." They replied. "It sometimes takes 5 or 10 minutes to get over it."
So the US spent billions on a huge fence to slow down the illegals for 10 minutes. Brilliant.
Exactly. EMI was basically saying all contracts and copyrights made in the vinyl and CD days no longer applied. Which would mean any song recorded without specifically mentioning digital rights in the contract are now free to anyone as digital media.
Ever since the advent of the long-playing record as the popular music medium, many artists have been making music that flows for 20 to 45 minutes, not just music that lasts for 3 or 4 minutes. Sure, singles still got made, but most real artists thought in terms of albums, not songs. The CD reinforced that model, allowing artists to flow their music for even longer. Even on albums that appear to be mostly singles, a lot of thought went into how they were arranged on the record.
The advent of itunes killed this. And it's a shame. Young music marketers don't even think beyond 5 minutes of music. Would Thick as a Brick, Tommy, Sgt. Pepper, The Who Sell Out, Brain Salad Surgery, 2112, Ziggy Stardust or any of the Pink Floyd or any number of classic albums even be able to be made in this new "single" only model?
Floyd has their money, they want to keep their integrity.
A joke about corruption in Latin America vs. Africa:
An African diplomat was visiting his counterpart in Mexico. The Mexican diplomat had a 10 room house and a Rolls Royce. The African diplomat says: "How did you afford all this?" The Mexican diplomat points to a nearby highway. "You see that highway? I got 10% of the construction cost."
Years later the Mexican diplomat visits his African counterpart. The African diplomat has a 100-room mansion and 10 expensive cars. The Mexican diplomat says: "WOW! How did you afford all this?" The African diplomat points to an empty stretch of countryside. "You see that highway? I got 100% of the construction cost!"
A couple years ago I bought a cheap mp3 player with a 2-1/2" screen for $69. Takes SD cards up to 2 GB. It also has a picture viewer and e-reader built in.
I have about 100 Project Gutenberg books on it right now along with a shedload of music and pictures. It can be set to auto-scroll or you can manually flip pages with the side buttons. Not a huge screen and not set up for fancy features like magazine viewing, but for books it's great. And I bought this almost THREE YEARS AGO!
Plus - the battery lasts for about 8 hours, it records, it recharges via USB and you can listen to music while you read.
With the advent of smart phones that do all of the above, is the e-reader really a practical device to make? And if so, why hasn't anyone made a Palm-pilot-sized e-reader with MP3 player, voice recorder, yadda-yadda-yadda for under $100? Or $50 for that matter.
"revenue comes nowhere near what they need in compensation for each individual's enjoyment of each work"
Then they won't get anything.
I still buy a lot of CDs in the bargain bin at Half-Price Books. I wonder how much compensation they think are they getting every time I listen to my LEGALLY PURCHASED $1 or $2 CD that I bought third-hand?
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In the same way the Internet can be used for Porn, or for boring stuff.
It sickens me that people use the Internet for something other than porn!
Now that we have sensitive high-tech equipment we can detect events that will damage sensitive high-tech equipment so we can save our sensitive high-tech equipment!
It all works out.
My department wanted to hire me (46 y.o.) a younger "assistant" to help with all my duties. Mostly they're nervous that I'll leave and be hard to replace.
So HR asked for the skills and qualifications I have that are needed for the jobs and projects that I do.
After getting the list and doing some research, HR told them they would need to hire 3 or 4 younger people to meet those qualifications, at a cost of at least 2 to 3 times my salary.
So yeah, experience beats youthful enthusiasm every damn day. Get yourself some experience, kids.
Oh, I got a raise out of the deal.
After all, if you aren't doing anything wrong, why would you care if someone is watching you?
It just proves that Apple owners are the most honest, clean (no porn!), decent people in the world.
IT infrastructure should be handled by an IT department (network, server & storage support, basic desktop supply and support) but it should NOT handle such things as database development and management, application development, etc.
Unfortunately, many companies class anything to do with a computer as "IT" and treat a DBA the way they treat a desktop support flunky. Many times I have worked for organizations that decided to grab every departmental programmer or DBA and bring him/her into the IT department, to the severe detriment of the department he/she used to support.
At one company I worked for they outsourced all the IT and made the programmers, DBAs, developers, etc. go work for the contractor. Lots of them quit and went to better jobs, so the contractor brought in many of their folks from India to fill the open positions. It was a disaster. Eventually most of the departments hired developers, DBA's, programmers, etc. of their own and just gave them all generic "Engineer" titles.
I thought Goldfinger was the one where Bond has to stop the Fort Knox being blown up with a nuclear device.
All I know is that Plenty O'Toole will get you Pussy Galore.
And then you can have all the earthquakes you want.
Best advice: Listen to the others working there. THEY know what's going on, you don't. Don't talk unless you're asking a question for the first several months and LISTEN to the answers. DO NOT speak ill of anyone.
Now, the first guy to start telling you how things are and offers lots of unsolicited advice is probably the office blowhard. Take all his (and it will be a male) advice with a large grain of salt.
but netbook sales fell off a cliff in January
Um yeah, popular devices do that right after Xmas.
No!
It will have no borders!
It will BE the desktop!
No more mouse or keyboard!
All gesture interface!
You sneeze and granny porn will pop up!
How many Moogawatts is that?
You should NEVER answer questions when being questioned. NO MATTER WHAT.
It can never be said enough: ALWAYS follow the above advice.
Cops and prosecutors are as lazy as anyone else and ten times as suspicious as anyone else. YOU are their first suspect because you have your mouth open and you have some knowledge of the crime.
NOTHING good comes of talking to them without a lawyer present. NO matter HOW innocent you are.
I used to be the designated person to report missing property when I worked for the state IT dept. (Probably because I was the whitest, most eloquent and innocent looking person working there.) I've been seriously grilled, accused and even cuffed to a chair once when REPORTING crimes. I had to do this at least once a quarter. I quickly realized why my boss (an older black woman) had me do it instead of her.
This reminds me of the HD plasma screens stuck all over the three Peppermill-owned casinos in Wendover, NV.
Gives you pretty scenes to look at while you wait for things or gamble with grandma.
When I worked for the state there was a company contracted to develop a whole suite of Windows applications to move us off the old VAX green-screen interfaces into the modern world. Most of the department ran on Windows NT 4.
So naturally, the contractor developed all of their applications on a Windows NT 3.51 emulator running under OS/2.
Aaaaand after millions of dollars spent, the contractor demonstrated their applications (working flawlessly under the emulator in OS/2) got their money and high-tailed it, leaving us IT schlubs to implement the applications. All the apps immediately crashed when we attempted to run them in the real NT 4 environment. We never did get them working, except on the few workstations actually running OS/2 with an NT emulator.
Your tax dollars at work. Remember kids, watch your specifications when hiring a contractor!
"penny-pinching clients"
You mean "clients"
Japanese people aren't especially known for their legginess.
YOU have obviously never been to Tokyo. All I remember is legs. All women between the ages of 16 and 36 seem to wear is miniskirts or short-shorts. When it gets cold they put on thigh-high hose.
A leg man will go crazy in Tokyo. I have banned one of my best friends from ever going, as he is rather infatuated with legs.
No, this is Presidio. You won't hear much English spoken 'round those parts.
It'd be more like:
Bateria Grande y Viejo
Oh, so you've BEEN to Presidio!
AFAIK it's just a jumping off point for Big Bend Ranch State Park. Or a gateway into Mexico for the Chihuahua-Pacifico railroad. If you want a scenic, lonely drive go from Ft. Davis -> Marfa -> Presidio -> Lajitas/Terlingua/Study Butte ->Alpine ->Ft Davis. Don't forget to visit McDonald Observatory!
Lisa, I would like to buy your rock.
They built a real fence. Billions of your tax dollars went into it. Go down to the border and see it. It's huge and imposing and I don't think I could get over it.
I know a landscaper who hires laborers. He hires legal laborers if they are available, illegals if they aren't. Both get $100 for a day of work digging sprinkler systems and moving dirt, legal or illegal. He finds it hard to hire legals to do the work.
When the fence went up my friend asked the illegals if the fence made it harder to get into the U.S.
"Oh yes." They replied. "It sometimes takes 5 or 10 minutes to get over it."
So the US spent billions on a huge fence to slow down the illegals for 10 minutes. Brilliant.
Exactly. EMI was basically saying all contracts and copyrights made in the vinyl and CD days no longer applied. Which would mean any song recorded without specifically mentioning digital rights in the contract are now free to anyone as digital media.
Kinda too bad they lost this one, then...
Ever since the advent of the long-playing record as the popular music medium, many artists have been making music that flows for 20 to 45 minutes, not just music that lasts for 3 or 4 minutes. Sure, singles still got made, but most real artists thought in terms of albums, not songs. The CD reinforced that model, allowing artists to flow their music for even longer. Even on albums that appear to be mostly singles, a lot of thought went into how they were arranged on the record.
The advent of itunes killed this. And it's a shame. Young music marketers don't even think beyond 5 minutes of music. Would Thick as a Brick, Tommy, Sgt. Pepper, The Who Sell Out, Brain Salad Surgery, 2112, Ziggy Stardust or any of the Pink Floyd or any number of classic albums even be able to be made in this new "single" only model?
Floyd has their money, they want to keep their integrity.
A joke about corruption in Latin America vs. Africa:
An African diplomat was visiting his counterpart in Mexico. The Mexican diplomat had a 10 room house and a Rolls Royce.
The African diplomat says: "How did you afford all this?"
The Mexican diplomat points to a nearby highway. "You see that highway? I got 10% of the construction cost."
Years later the Mexican diplomat visits his African counterpart. The African diplomat has a 100-room mansion and 10 expensive cars.
The Mexican diplomat says: "WOW! How did you afford all this?"
The African diplomat points to an empty stretch of countryside. "You see that highway? I got 100% of the construction cost!"
A couple years ago I bought a cheap mp3 player with a 2-1/2" screen for $69. Takes SD cards up to 2 GB. It also has a picture viewer and e-reader built in.
I have about 100 Project Gutenberg books on it right now along with a shedload of music and pictures. It can be set to auto-scroll or you can manually flip pages with the side buttons. Not a huge screen and not set up for fancy features like magazine viewing, but for books it's great. And I bought this almost THREE YEARS AGO!
Plus - the battery lasts for about 8 hours, it records, it recharges via USB and you can listen to music while you read.
With the advent of smart phones that do all of the above, is the e-reader really a practical device to make? And if so, why hasn't anyone made a Palm-pilot-sized e-reader with MP3 player, voice recorder, yadda-yadda-yadda for under $100? Or $50 for that matter.
"revenue comes nowhere near what they need in compensation for each individual's enjoyment of each work"
Then they won't get anything.
I still buy a lot of CDs in the bargain bin at Half-Price Books. I wonder how much compensation they think are they getting every time I listen to my LEGALLY PURCHASED $1 or $2 CD that I bought third-hand?
My nipples explode with delight!