For all the folks dissing on the Power model - you are forgetting not everyone is like us. There are quite some folks who: - don't need that much cpu power/memory - don't have a 10/10 eyesight, do want a bigger display, don't have problems keeping the bigger phone in the pants (think at home, think shoulder bags, pouch and so on) - don't need high resolution (think calls, whatsapp, facebook and maybe basic instagram usage); remember the previous point, maybe even on the bigger screen they can't see the difference between 720p 1080p 2k 4k screens at that size and distance.... - have problems charging (or remembering to charge) the device midday. Just charge at night while you sleep, forget about the battery, yeas even when the device will be a couple of years old you could still get a whole day of battery life... - don't care for differences in design and quality like notches, multiple cameras and so on
Think some older folks. Think not-geeks. Devices like that can be quite appealing.
I think you meant this Soppressata or this Sopressa.
Small correction, since I was actually wondering what you meant (and I've been living in Italy for >30 years...).
There are lots of interesting comments here.
However let us just for a moment restrict to ourselves. IT and other technical/STEM/whatever ladies and guys.
These days I expect anybody I hire in this sector to have at least a basic understanding of all the "everything on internet is public" stuff.
These days I expect anybody I hire in this sector to have at least a basic understanding of restrict access to your facebook (and similar) profile to friends if you don't consider those public including yang Tsu in China, Markus Hinterhuber in Germany and your next employer.
These days I expect anybody I hire in this sector to have at least a basic understanding of Linkedin is business, not personal. This means a profile picture appropriate for the kind of job you are looking for (bad vacation pic in swimming trunks is unexpected on a high level CV), a reasonable amount of spell and grammar checking and so on (as I said, calibrated to the kind of job).
If these don't match it doesn't mean I won't hire them, but it is an alarm sign compounding other impressions. AGAIN: CALIBRATED TO THE KIND OF JOB, now don't come and crucify me.
1) Heck, even today, with all the typography snobs running around, no one has really put together a good "so you know nothing about typography, but want to pick a font" guide -- well, except for the guides which are a one liner: "Use Helvetica."
Of course simple figures like this thrown around in media and statistics are a grossly oversimplified representation of reality, in other words bullshit.
Take that 75k Euro and "base level" happiness. Now add a small kid or three and a dog. Add a house big enough for the family living comfortably. With a garden. Maybe not in the city center but in a suburb. This means higher cost of transportation - now you probably will need at least one big car and another smaller one unless you are so lucky to be able to work from home. Also this needs a lot of time so in order to keep that happiness level maybe you or your spouse will choose to or feel obliged to stop going to work and concentrate on the family - or you need a good high level daycare center/person (not cheap). If you choose the full-time in-house support person remember she'll need a nice room, too (how big was that house again?). Of course many offload that expense on the time of the grandparents.
Problem is, (at least most south Europe) governments tends to make financial laws based on "every private person making over Xk is rich and will get overtaxed" too, while not looking enough at context and expenses. Then they continue wondering why birth rates are in the cellar and still dropping.
Oh I terribly recognize myself in this comment. Even if I carefully avoided Sucker Punch (substitute with the Aronofsky wonderful oldy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_(film)).
Being a father with (multiple) small kids really changes your schedule and priorities.
Go and read it.
It is not just any guy but an established character (from other books) with a kind of mind and acting quite different from conventional "fantasy" style characters - which the Discworld books quite definitively are not.
They end up talking and complaining and thinking we are on opposite sides but of the same position, while other people have other positions we don't like a bit from a get-off-my-lawn POV, and it does not just end but is quite coherent.
If you know and like how the main characters thinks you will not be disappointed. If you never read those... well that depends on your taste of humor and intellect.
And of course have fun when the machine does need to be rebooted for a "kernel of hardware change" and some vital service doesn't restart because no one checked that the damn init script was enabled.
That one is checked during the regular desaster recovery drill. You know, on the spare machines, rebuild from scratch only with the backup tapes? You do run those, right?
... but nobody seems to advertise the offset crashes, such as the right half of your bumper hitting the left half of your 'opponents' bumper. Why? Because it's sad in comparison. It's also not pretty to watch.
Euro NCAP do test that one.
See the Frontal impact1 test description: frontal impact at 64kph (40 mph) at only 40% overlap.
Slashdot is really going downhill these days.
Here is a poster speculation about a failed star, "but what could ignite it" ???
Monolith of course. Just ask Arthur C. Clarke about it, standard reference works provide good enough documentation.
A weak or new professional would be ranked at 1-dan, but this is on the professional scale. A 1-dan pro is probably better than a 7-dan amateur.
A 1-dan pro is somewhat like a 7-dan amateur, but with immensely better insight what is actually happening. Disclaymer: have been playing for 3 years, have been studying a lot, but I'm still only about 17k EGF due to far too less games (real life keeps interfering, mainly in form of my children)
Take a look at ctupdate. Google c't Projekte - Offline-Update Download ALL security fixes once, run from USB disk or burn CDs or DVDs, patch everywhere (automatically I feeld the need to add). Still hundred of patches but at least you run the client, flag "autoreboot", "keep log", "install IE7" if you want to, and return some time later. In some instances you'll get a message "please reboot manually now then rerun" (usually max 1 or 2 times), otherwise fully automatic.
THEN (if you want to) run Microsoft update for not-security fixes you'd like. Oh, remember to install other MS stuff like Office and Mediaplayer you could want before patching, so you'll have to do that only once.
Personally, I think that whether or not the "seeds of life" originated here or came here on a meteor is a stupid idea, as it's not where they came from that is even remotely interesting, but how they came to be in the first place. While fundamentally I agree with you (wherever the first "life" molecules appeared we'd like to know how) just remember the effects of deep time and galaxies vs. a single planet - however low, the probabilities of the first rudimentary self replicating molecules appearing by chance is a lot bigger if you allow for a whole galaxy and deep time. Then those molecules "just" need to traverse space and pollinate other planets.
Until we learn how those molecules appeared we need to remember the possibility of that event happening outside earth, or we could be keeping looking in the wrong place... forever.
Mushrooms, oranges and horse dung ??
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Could you please follow up on those flavor equality charts that put mushrooms, oranges and horse dung together ?
The shuddering just won't stop.
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Beside the mentioned Webmail extension http://webmail.mozdev.org/ you could also try FreePOPs http://www.freepops.org/ which basically is an easily extendable Webmail scraper delivering the goodies with POP3.
If there was really something at all these places with all these people not only there should be some phone camera shots (dot in the sky) but even some more decent stuff, some professional and a lot of amateurs are always present at events like that, and while it is difficult taking a photo like that is definitively possible.
I'm just an amateur with a decent mid-to-low end reflex (EOS 350) and lens (75-300mm optical, not stabilized), that was the first time I tried stuff like that, yet when I saw a Dragonfly continuously flying a 20 meter loop in full sun over shallow water some 10 meters below me (I was standing on the side of a cliff in Sicily) I was able to select high ISO (1600, that's why the image is so grainy), LOW exposure time (1/2000), manual focus, point to the end of the loop (lowest speed), zoom somewhat right (EXIF says it was optical 200, which on that camera means really 320mm focal length), click some 10 times and get four good images like that in various positions of flight.
And you really think if there was something to see there would be no photographs ?
Also dump some concrete in you floppy drive (if you have it) and every usb port. Same for firewire. Don't forget the network interface, too. If integrated wifi IRDA or blutooth interfaces are available cut those off with a wirecutter.
Secure systems with external connectivity don't exist, period. You can increase the odds, though, and AV software helps a bit - just don't thinks of it as a magic bullet.
You seem to think there isn't any reason to go multi-planetary. Try taking a look at Terry Pratchett'sStrata.
There one of the basic ideas was: 1. There are/have been lots of civilisations out there. 2. Sooner or later every civilisation hits a Big Problem(tm), possibly a terminally problem. 3. If we try to differentiate maybe some part will survive.
Later lifeforms had been smaller, brighter. Some, like the Wheelers, had been evolutionary dead ends. Some, notably the Great Spindle Kings and the shameleons, had been successful in the only way that evolution measured success - they survived longer. But even star-striding races died. The universe was tombs upon graves upon mausoleums. The comet that brightened the pagan skies was the abraded corpse of a scientist, three eons ago.
The Policy of the Company was simple. It was: make Man immortal.
It would take a while, and had only just started. But if Man could be spread thinly on many different planets, so that he became many types of Man, perhaps he would survive. The Spindles had died because they were so alike. Now, upon dozens of worlds, men were being changed by different forces, maddened by different moons, bent by different gravities.
Since the universe could not be said to have a natural ending, because the universe was not natural but only the sum of the lives that had shaped it, Men intended to live for ever. Why not ?
Sure, there's still a lot of work to do, possibly there are other problems which should be solved before, maybe this is not yet the right moment... maybe, maybe not.
My father has something similar, only it does filter OUT the nitrogen in order to get a higher percentage of oxygen (to pump into a Koi lake).
Basically the nitrogen is filtered out with a kind of sponge by something similar to osmosis (they told me). The sponge tends to break down rather fast though if the air has a high percentage of humidity.
Here in Italy this week a child had an accident on a swing. Somehow it got it's head tangled in the rope while swinging, afaik currently it is in hospital with a "brain dead" diagnose. Does this mean prohibiting all swings is a a possible idea ? Yes. Does this mean prohibiting all swings is a a good idea ? I don't know.
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For all the folks dissing on the Power model - you are forgetting not everyone is like us.
There are quite some folks who:
- don't need that much cpu power/memory
- don't have a 10/10 eyesight, do want a bigger display, don't have problems keeping the bigger phone in the pants (think at home, think shoulder bags, pouch and so on)
- don't need high resolution (think calls, whatsapp, facebook and maybe basic instagram usage); remember the previous point, maybe even on the bigger screen they can't see the difference between 720p 1080p 2k 4k screens at that size and distance....
- have problems charging (or remembering to charge) the device midday. Just charge at night while you sleep, forget about the battery, yeas even when the device will be a couple of years old you could still get a whole day of battery life...
- don't care for differences in design and quality like notches, multiple cameras and so on
Think some older folks. Think not-geeks. Devices like that can be quite appealing.
"going postal" is about to become "going amazon" ?
I think you meant this Soppressata or this Sopressa.
Small correction, since I was actually wondering what you meant (and I've been living in Italy for >30 years...).
There are lots of interesting comments here.
However let us just for a moment restrict to ourselves. IT and other technical/STEM/whatever ladies and guys.
These days I expect anybody I hire in this sector to have at least a basic understanding of all the "everything on internet is public" stuff.
These days I expect anybody I hire in this sector to have at least a basic understanding of restrict access to your facebook (and similar) profile to friends if you don't consider those public including yang Tsu in China, Markus Hinterhuber in Germany and your next employer.
These days I expect anybody I hire in this sector to have at least a basic understanding of Linkedin is business, not personal. This means a profile picture appropriate for the kind of job you are looking for (bad vacation pic in swimming trunks is unexpected on a high level CV), a reasonable amount of spell and grammar checking and so on (as I said, calibrated to the kind of job).
If these don't match it doesn't mean I won't hire them, but it is an alarm sign compounding other impressions. AGAIN: CALIBRATED TO THE KIND OF JOB, now don't come and crucify me.
1) Heck, even today, with all the typography snobs running around, no one has really put together a good "so you know nothing about typography, but want to pick a font" guide -- well, except for the guides which are a one liner: "Use Helvetica."
Google is your friend (sometimes), look for this:
so you need a typeface
That infographic helps a lot for a starter.
Of course simple figures like this thrown around in media and statistics are a grossly oversimplified representation of reality, in other words bullshit.
Take that 75k Euro and "base level" happiness. Now add a small kid or three and a dog. Add a house big enough for the family living comfortably. With a garden. Maybe not in the city center but in a suburb. This means higher cost of transportation - now you probably will need at least one big car and another smaller one unless you are so lucky to be able to work from home. Also this needs a lot of time so in order to keep that happiness level maybe you or your spouse will choose to or feel obliged to stop going to work and concentrate on the family - or you need a good high level daycare center/person (not cheap). If you choose the full-time in-house support person remember she'll need a nice room, too (how big was that house again?). Of course many offload that expense on the time of the grandparents.
Problem is, (at least most south Europe) governments tends to make financial laws based on "every private person making over Xk is rich and will get overtaxed" too, while not looking enough at context and expenses. Then they continue wondering why birth rates are in the cellar and still dropping.
Oh I terribly recognize myself in this comment. Even if I carefully avoided Sucker Punch (substitute with the Aronofsky wonderful oldy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_(film)).
Being a father with (multiple) small kids really changes your schedule and priorities.
Go and read it. It is not just any guy but an established character (from other books) with a kind of mind and acting quite different from conventional "fantasy" style characters - which the Discworld books quite definitively are not.
They end up talking and complaining and thinking we are on opposite sides but of the same position, while other people have other positions we don't like a bit from a get-off-my-lawn POV, and it does not just end but is quite coherent.
If you know and like how the main characters thinks you will not be disappointed. If you never read those... well that depends on your taste of humor and intellect.
He could have exactly the uid he wanted, just go back to the appropriate time when it was available.
That one is checked during the regular desaster recovery drill. You know, on the spare machines, rebuild from scratch only with the backup tapes? You do run those, right?
... but nobody seems to advertise the offset crashes, such as the right half of your bumper hitting the left half of your 'opponents' bumper. Why? Because it's sad in comparison. It's also not pretty to watch.
Euro NCAP do test that one. See the Frontal impact1 test description: frontal impact at 64kph (40 mph) at only 40% overlap.
Slashdot is really going downhill these days.
Here is a poster speculation about a failed star, "but what could ignite it" ???
Monolith of course. Just ask Arthur C. Clarke about it, standard reference works provide good enough documentation.
A weak or new professional would be ranked at 1-dan, but this is on the professional scale. A 1-dan pro is probably better than a 7-dan amateur.
A 1-dan pro is somewhat like a 7-dan amateur, but with immensely better insight what is actually happening.
Disclaymer: have been playing for 3 years, have been studying a lot, but I'm still only about 17k EGF due to far too less games (real life keeps interfering, mainly in form of my children)
Take a look at ctupdate.
Google c't Projekte - Offline-Update
Download ALL security fixes once, run from USB disk or burn CDs or DVDs, patch everywhere (automatically I feeld the need to add).
Still hundred of patches but at least you run the client, flag "autoreboot", "keep log", "install IE7" if you want to, and return some time later.
In some instances you'll get a message "please reboot manually now then rerun" (usually max 1 or 2 times), otherwise fully automatic.
THEN (if you want to) run Microsoft update for not-security fixes you'd like.
Oh, remember to install other MS stuff like Office and Mediaplayer you could want before patching, so you'll have to do that only once.
Until we learn how those molecules appeared we need to remember the possibility of that event happening outside earth, or we could be keeping looking in the wrong place... forever.
Could you please follow up on those flavor equality charts that put mushrooms, oranges and horse dung together ?
The shuddering just won't stop.
Beside the mentioned Webmail extension http://webmail.mozdev.org/ you could also try FreePOPs http://www.freepops.org/ which basically is an easily extendable Webmail scraper delivering the goodies with POP3.
Disclaimer: I never tried any of those.
If there was really something at all these places with all these people not only there should be some phone camera shots (dot in the sky) but even some more decent stuff, some professional and a lot of amateurs are always present at events like that, and while it is difficult taking a photo like that is definitively possible.
Take a look at this: http://bayimg.com/NAhogAabi (no, no goatse).
I'm just an amateur with a decent mid-to-low end reflex (EOS 350) and lens (75-300mm optical, not stabilized), that was the first time I tried stuff like that, yet when I saw a Dragonfly continuously flying a 20 meter loop in full sun over shallow water some 10 meters below me (I was standing on the side of a cliff in Sicily) I was able to select high ISO (1600, that's why the image is so grainy), LOW exposure time (1/2000), manual focus, point to the end of the loop (lowest speed), zoom somewhat right (EXIF says it was optical 200, which on that camera means really 320mm focal length), click some 10 times and get four good images like that in various positions of flight.
And you really think if there was something to see there would be no photographs ?
Maybe also take a look at an interactive tutorial here http://playgo.to/interactive/
and a place where you can play without installing programs, just with a java plugin here http://www.gokgs.com/
Also dump some concrete in you floppy drive (if you have it) and every usb port. Same for firewire. Don't forget the network interface, too. If integrated wifi IRDA or blutooth interfaces are available cut those off with a wirecutter.
Secure systems with external connectivity don't exist, period. You can increase the odds, though, and AV software helps a bit - just don't thinks of it as a magic bullet.
Total Recorder is another option.
Try taking a look at Terry Pratchett's Strata.
There one of the basic ideas was:
1. There are/have been lots of civilisations out there.
2. Sooner or later every civilisation hits a Big Problem(tm), possibly a terminally problem.
3. If we try to differentiate maybe some part will survive.
Sure, there's still a lot of work to do, possibly there are other problems which should be solved before, maybe this is not yet the right moment... maybe, maybe not.
My father has something similar, only it does filter OUT the nitrogen in order to get a higher percentage of oxygen (to pump into a Koi lake).
Basically the nitrogen is filtered out with a kind of sponge by something similar to osmosis (they told me). The sponge tends to break down rather fast though if the air has a high percentage of humidity.
Here in Italy this week a child had an accident on a swing.
Somehow it got it's head tangled in the rope while swinging, afaik currently it is in hospital with a "brain dead" diagnose.
Does this mean prohibiting all swings is a a possible idea ? Yes.
Does this mean prohibiting all swings is a a good idea ? I don't know.
For what it's worth, something like this is postulated in Terry Prattchets's Strata, too.
That's a book with a very interesting POV, even if you know all about the Discworld series.