and a bunch of other nasty diseases flying around like the common cold. I think many parents (atleast around here in Northern California, think you need 200 years of concrete data, or Oprah to claim a vaccine is needed).
If you're going to be talking on the phone, get a headset. Not only does it keep your hands free, but you don't end up trying to pinch the handset between your head & shoulder, which is very bad for your neck.
Most office phones can have one connected into it without a problem. Get one with comfortable padding, though the foam pads often wear out after about a year and can often be replaced (tho for some reasons these are expensive).
I prefer a double ear headset with a boom mic over the bluetooth ones that only hang on one ear, as I'm not trying to look "cool" as I'm sitting at my cube any how. Also, it has the added bonus of making people that walk by think you're on the phone, when all you want is to be left alone.
If I don't have my reading glasses on, I've got to hold books/menus/iPads at arm's length. So I guess my head would look small... however, my 5yr old, who has much shorter arms, could hold the device right up to his head and make it look like he had a giant head...
Motorists looking for parking can take advantage of this data through a free Streetline free mobile phone application for the iPhone and Android. Called Parker, this app can alert users of nearby parking spaces. The cities can also expose the data for other third-party applications as well.
This system is being debuted in California for you to use your smartphone to check park spot availability which is also where it is illegal to use your smartphone while operating a moving vehicle.
This will also result in 'race conditions' whereby 50 people all get a text message saying "Parking spot available at 3270 Embarcadero by Pier 39" and all will race to get there.
Sometimes I need to scale vertically and not horizontally. There are times when you need a single chassis with 200+ cores and 8TB of ram and hundreds of PCIe slots for IO. You can take my pSeries from my cold dead hands.
Intel solutions are getting there with 80 cores and 2TB of RAM.
However, when it comes to moving IO, nothing beats big iron.
First Cisco offered an Early Retirement Package... this backfired since many of the senior technical folks, who would have no problems getting a job somewhere else took the package and immediately got a job at a competitor. Nothing like paying top talent to work somewhere else.
They as part of the layoffs they said that they would lay off 15% of all VP and higher folks. A few Distinguished Engineers were let go.
Then this morning they announced that FOUR new VPs were made Senior VPs.
Cisco's employee profile is shaped like an hour glass, you're either upper management or a grunt. There is no middle class here. I"ve also heard of this place like a upside down pyramid. Btw, VPs get a compensation that is orders of magnitude greater than any individual contributor (including Distinguished Engineers, for which there are 100 in the entire company).
I'd love to convert my x86 based farm into servers that don't have any expansion slots, but have a pair of 10GbE LOM (LAN On Motherboard). I don't need internal disk, just CPU and RAM. I currently boot from SAN, but if I can get rid of the PCI slots, then I can boot from FCoE instead. All my disk is concentrated in the disk arrays, so I don't have to deal with disk in the servers and I can get away from remove the power inefficient HBAs. Now if my LAN and storage admins could stop fighting over "Who gets to upgrade the FCOE switch", I might actually get headache over with.
Is it any coincidence that the victim in this case happens to be a columnist and a blogger? I call BS on this, but she'll win no matter what because she'll get the ad revenue, book sales and speaking engagements.
Ok so Anonymous goes after BART for shutting down a few privately owned cell phone repeaters. But does nothing against China and all of the Free Speech bs that they pull?
Protesting/hacking BART only inconvenienced the train riders that had nothing to do with the shutdown; however, Anonymous could look like they're doing something usefull by going after China...
Be glad you aren't like me and support mainframes...
"Hello class, I work on this really big black computer the size of a refrigerator and the weight of an elephant...No, it doesn't play Angry Birds.... but it's older than both of your parents"
I'm still trying to figure out how to explain what I do to Adults...
With Red hat we had so many problem with the BNX/BNX2 10 GB ethernet drivers, it was a nightmare scenario with over $500,000K in blade servers constantly crashing, there were the HP vendor drivers, and the RH drivers and the Linux main line drivers, which we ended up building and using till RH caught up.
Next time build a test lab so that your QA group within IT, can validate the software you're about to deploy.
Lack of preparation on your part doesn't constitute an emergency on anybody elses.
Next time, please sign your comment with your company so I can validate that I do not have any working relationship or consume your company's products.
Who is Mozilla targeting? If they are not going after the enterprise are they going after the basement hobbyist? Or the firefox developer? Surely grandma would like to provide an easy answer to the request "Grandma, click on Help then About Firefox, and tell me the number next to Version..."
Microsoft Guidelines show version number in their About Box example.
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Excerpt from Mac OS X Human Interface Guidelines:
About ApplicationName Opens the About window, which contains the app's copyright information and version number.
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Excerpt from GNOME Human Interface Guidelines 2.2.2: Help About...contains the name and version number of the application, a short description of the application's functionality, author contact details, copyright message and a pointer to the licence under which the application is made available.
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Could someone please post references to the relevant standards Firefox will comply with after implementation of bug 678775?
With all the recent layoffs that Cisco has had recently, you'd think they'd find a better way to continue to save money rather than axing employees and then taking the saved salaries and redirecting it to the lawyers.
I'd love for a world (roadway) in which everyone drove small sensible cars... However this isn't dreamland or one filled with rainbows and unicorns.
I do agree that the number of fatalities (or atleast injuries) would go up. Why? Because not everyone can live with a tiny car. Got a family with a bunch of kids? Not so easy putting them in the back of a VW Golf. A camry/accord is larger and does fit the bill. So do minivans if you think about hauling 3 kids plus their stuff to football practice...
Anyhow.. I am a former owner of a 2009 Smart four-two. I replaced my nice and fast BMW 330 with something that a) didn't use super-unleaded and b) got decent gas mileage for commuting to/from work (30mi round trip) in bad traffic.
Then last summer I was sitting at a light and I was rear ended by a Honda Accord. No not a hummer or other monstrous SUV, by 3000lb family sedan going about 20mph. While my rear bumper only got a small dent in it, I was shot into the middle of the intersection like a kickball on the playground. While the car was ok, I was not. For the next 3 months I suffered from a dull pain that started at the base of my skull and went 1/2 down my back.
Why did I get injured? Simple. There's no crumple zone in the rear of a Smartcar compared to any other car out there. In any other small car (Golf, Civic etc..) there's atleast some form of a trunk that can collapse and slow down the deceleration of the other car and the acceleration of mine. Since there's no crumple zone, my car ping-ponged into the intersection and thereby transmitted most of the energy to me.
The persistent internet connection seems to work for SC2, unless you want to play only offline which is single player mode only. There seems to be quite an industry around SC2 competitions and multiplayer...
Let me know when companies will stream it...
on
Beyond HDTV
·
· Score: 1
We're gonna need more bandwidth at the service provider and at the home if we're gonna replace bluray with streaming...
1080p24 (24frames per second) is about 4-8Mb/s when streamed from something like youtube, however a bluray disk can stream at ~54Mb/s.
However, I could encode, or rather compress the hell out of a 1080p source and still call it 1080p. So I guess we come back to the definition of what is HD or 1080p...
You could easily replace MSFT in your description with IBM, however, they completely changed their business practices, their company culture and their attitudes...
Before we all had cellphones with contact lists in which you select the name "bob" and the phone automatically dialed the number, we had manually enter the phone number. This triggered both muscle memory and seeing the number over and over.
Go try and dial all your friend's phone numbers without using the contact list, just dial them manually. This can be quite a shock...
Hey buddy, why not just ask anybody that's older than say 30, "What did you do before you had internet?" Since internet access from the home isn't that old, i'm sure you can find some things to do and resources to use... for example...
Get a phone book. Buy a map. Buy a dictionary/thesaurus Buy stamps, envelopes and practice writing with this invention called a 'pen' or alternatively a 'pencil'.
Do you miss playing FPS games with your friends? Try paintball. Miss online racing? Try go-kart racing. Videoconferencing/skype? Use the telephone and look at a photograph of the person you're talking to. That's a printed photo, not flickr.
You know that area in your backyard, that's probably covered in weeds and crab grass? Try cutting it, planting something and watching it grow. It'll be more rewarding than 'gold farming', infact some of the things you can grow in your back yard are edible or attract other forms of life. Setting up a bird feeder is easy.
Oh yeah, and since you don't have the self control to handle internet access, please cancel your cable/satellite service, since you'll fall into this pit of despair called "Jersey Shore."
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If we had celebrities coming out and saying "I think the vaccine could have more side effects than the disease..."
We'd still have polio...
measles...
mumps..
Rubella...
Tuberculosis
Whooping Cough...
and a bunch of other nasty diseases flying around like the common cold. I think many parents (atleast around here in Northern California, think you need 200 years of concrete data, or Oprah to claim a vaccine is needed).
Get three small cat3k L2/L3 capable switches from say eBay. You'll be able to do most LAN topologies with those at both layer2 and layer3.
If you're going to be talking on the phone, get a headset. Not only does it keep your hands free, but you don't end up trying to pinch the handset between your head & shoulder, which is very bad for your neck.
Most office phones can have one connected into it without a problem. Get one with comfortable padding, though the foam pads often wear out after about a year and can often be replaced (tho for some reasons these are expensive).
I prefer a double ear headset with a boom mic over the bluetooth ones that only hang on one ear, as I'm not trying to look "cool" as I'm sitting at my cube any how. Also, it has the added bonus of making people that walk by think you're on the phone, when all you want is to be left alone.
There's a sucker born every minute...
or
A fool and his money are soon parted...
Though I guess this is a good use for the $40B in cash they have to burn...
If I don't have my reading glasses on, I've got to hold books/menus/iPads at arm's length. So I guess my head would look small... however, my 5yr old, who has much shorter arms, could hold the device right up to his head and make it look like he had a giant head...
Motorists looking for parking can take advantage of this data through a free Streetline free mobile phone application for the iPhone and Android. Called Parker, this app can alert users of nearby parking spaces. The cities can also expose the data for other third-party applications as well.
This system is being debuted in California for you to use your smartphone to check park spot availability which is also where it is illegal to use your smartphone while operating a moving vehicle.
This will also result in 'race conditions' whereby 50 people all get a text message saying "Parking spot available at 3270 Embarcadero by Pier 39" and all will race to get there.
"It's good to be the king."
Eventually we'll move towards a new version for every bug fix.
Sometimes I need to scale vertically and not horizontally. There are times when you need a single chassis with 200+ cores and 8TB of ram and hundreds of PCIe slots for IO. You can take my pSeries from my cold dead hands.
Intel solutions are getting there with 80 cores and 2TB of RAM.
However, when it comes to moving IO, nothing beats big iron.
First Cisco offered an Early Retirement Package... this backfired since many of the senior technical folks, who would have no problems getting a job somewhere else took the package and immediately got a job at a competitor. Nothing like paying top talent to work somewhere else.
They as part of the layoffs they said that they would lay off 15% of all VP and higher folks. A few Distinguished Engineers were let go.
Then this morning they announced that FOUR new VPs were made Senior VPs.
Cisco's employee profile is shaped like an hour glass, you're either upper management or a grunt. There is no middle class here. I"ve also heard of this place like a upside down pyramid. Btw, VPs get a compensation that is orders of magnitude greater than any individual contributor (including Distinguished Engineers, for which there are 100 in the entire company).
I'd love to convert my x86 based farm into servers that don't have any expansion slots, but have a pair of 10GbE LOM (LAN On Motherboard). I don't need internal disk, just CPU and RAM. I currently boot from SAN, but if I can get rid of the PCI slots, then I can boot from FCoE instead. All my disk is concentrated in the disk arrays, so I don't have to deal with disk in the servers and I can get away from remove the power inefficient HBAs. Now if my LAN and storage admins could stop fighting over "Who gets to upgrade the FCOE switch", I might actually get headache over with.
Is it any coincidence that the victim in this case happens to be a columnist and a blogger? I call BS on this, but she'll win no matter what because she'll get the ad revenue, book sales and speaking engagements.
Ok so Anonymous goes after BART for shutting down a few privately owned cell phone repeaters. But does nothing against China and all of the Free Speech bs that they pull?
Protesting/hacking BART only inconvenienced the train riders that had nothing to do with the shutdown; however, Anonymous could look like they're doing something usefull by going after China...
A bit of Robin Hood if you will..
Be glad you aren't like me and support mainframes...
"Hello class, I work on this really big black computer the size of a refrigerator and the weight of an elephant...No, it doesn't play Angry Birds.... but it's older than both of your parents"
I'm still trying to figure out how to explain what I do to Adults...
With Red hat we had so many problem with the BNX/BNX2 10 GB ethernet drivers, it was a nightmare scenario with over $500,000K in blade servers constantly crashing, there were the HP vendor drivers, and the RH drivers and the Linux main line drivers, which we ended up building and using till RH caught up.
Next time build a test lab so that your QA group within IT, can validate the software you're about to deploy.
Lack of preparation on your part doesn't constitute an emergency on anybody elses.
Next time, please sign your comment with your company so I can validate that I do not have any working relationship or consume your company's products.
Who is Mozilla targeting? If they are not going after the enterprise are they going after the basement hobbyist? Or the firefox developer? Surely grandma would like to provide an easy answer to the request "Grandma, click on Help then About Firefox, and tell me the number next to Version..."
From one of the posts in the group...
Microsoft Guidelines show version number in their About Box example.
----------
Excerpt from Mac OS X Human Interface Guidelines:
About ApplicationName
Opens the About window, which contains the app's copyright information
and version number.
----------
Excerpt from GNOME Human Interface Guidelines 2.2.2: ...contains the name and version number of the application, a short
Help About
description of the application's functionality, author contact
details, copyright message and a pointer to the licence under which
the application is made available.
----------
Could someone please post references to the relevant standards Firefox
will comply with after implementation of bug 678775?
Maps and street signs don't need batteries.
With all the recent layoffs that Cisco has had recently, you'd think they'd find a better way to continue to save money rather than axing employees and then taking the saved salaries and redirecting it to the lawyers.
I'd love for a world (roadway) in which everyone drove small sensible cars... However this isn't dreamland or one filled with rainbows and unicorns.
I do agree that the number of fatalities (or atleast injuries) would go up. Why? Because not everyone can live with a tiny car. Got a family with a bunch of kids? Not so easy putting them in the back of a VW Golf. A camry/accord is larger and does fit the bill. So do minivans if you think about hauling 3 kids plus their stuff to football practice...
Anyhow.. I am a former owner of a 2009 Smart four-two. I replaced my nice and fast BMW 330 with something that a) didn't use super-unleaded and b) got decent gas mileage for commuting to/from work (30mi round trip) in bad traffic.
Then last summer I was sitting at a light and I was rear ended by a Honda Accord. No not a hummer or other monstrous SUV, by 3000lb family sedan going about 20mph. While my rear bumper only got a small dent in it, I was shot into the middle of the intersection like a kickball on the playground. While the car was ok, I was not. For the next 3 months I suffered from a dull pain that started at the base of my skull and went 1/2 down my back.
Why did I get injured? Simple. There's no crumple zone in the rear of a Smartcar compared to any other car out there. In any other small car (Golf, Civic etc..) there's atleast some form of a trunk that can collapse and slow down the deceleration of the other car and the acceleration of mine. Since there's no crumple zone, my car ping-ponged into the intersection and thereby transmitted most of the energy to me.
I now drive a camry.
The persistent internet connection seems to work for SC2, unless you want to play only offline which is single player mode only. There seems to be quite an industry around SC2 competitions and multiplayer...
We're gonna need more bandwidth at the service provider and at the home if we're gonna replace bluray with streaming...
1080p24 (24frames per second) is about 4-8Mb/s when streamed from something like youtube, however a bluray disk can stream at ~54Mb/s.
However, I could encode, or rather compress the hell out of a 1080p source and still call it 1080p. So I guess we come back to the definition of what is HD or 1080p...
You could easily replace MSFT in your description with IBM, however, they completely changed their business practices, their company culture and their attitudes...
Before we all had cellphones with contact lists in which you select the name "bob" and the phone automatically dialed the number, we had manually enter the phone number. This triggered both muscle memory and seeing the number over and over.
Go try and dial all your friend's phone numbers without using the contact list, just dial them manually. This can be quite a shock...
Hey buddy, why not just ask anybody that's older than say 30, "What did you do before you had internet?" Since internet access from the home isn't that old, i'm sure you can find some things to do and resources to use... for example...
Get a phone book.
Buy a map.
Buy a dictionary/thesaurus
Buy stamps, envelopes and practice writing with this invention called a 'pen' or alternatively a 'pencil'.
Do you miss playing FPS games with your friends? Try paintball.
Miss online racing? Try go-kart racing.
Videoconferencing/skype? Use the telephone and look at a photograph of the person you're talking to. That's a printed photo, not flickr.
You know that area in your backyard, that's probably covered in weeds and crab grass? Try cutting it, planting something and watching it grow. It'll be more rewarding than 'gold farming', infact some of the things you can grow in your back yard are edible or attract other forms of life. Setting up a bird feeder is easy.
Oh yeah, and since you don't have the self control to handle internet access, please cancel your cable/satellite service, since you'll fall into this pit of despair called "Jersey Shore."