I'm not so sure about oil refinery capacity. When Houston got knocked offline for a few weeks (lots of the refineries are still offline!) refining capacity picked up in the North East. While there was a momentary panic in Georgia and KY, there was not actually a disruption in fuel supplies throughout the US like you'd expect. From what I understand we're using about 60% of our current capacity. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Its not capacity that's the issue, it's 1970's era technology and 1970's EPA standards that have been largely ignored. I know. I've driven through Southeast Houston and seen the refineries myself.
I live in texas. Its required to teach in drivers ed, but not tested on.of course if you're over 18 you don't even have to take a test in texas (I believe)
There's no excuse for these people, but my girlfriend can't check, let alone change her oil or change a flat, even though those things are required (to be taught not practiced) to get your licence
Yeah but copying a file is a different skill set than wordprocessing or emailing. It's trivially easy to change your car's oil, but many people have never done it so they need you to walk them through it once or twice. If you've never copied a file you're not going to have any idea of how to do it. There's no real analog to copying a file in a GUI except maybe a copy machine, and i've never seen a copy machine icon in any contextual menu. I wouldn't expect a n00b to know how to copy a file.
My 30 year old pickup, 100% stock, passes California emission tests with flying colours.
Yeah but it's likely your truck doesn't have a catalytic converter. You're probably dumping 10x the pollutants into the atmosphere that a five year old car that doesn't meet it's emissions specs. Your emission specs (1978?) are so low there's almost no hurdle there to jump, or roll over, in this case. The fact alone that you're not running leaded gas probably helps tremendously. Toss some leaded gas in there and compare your ppm of pollutants vs. a 2001 honda civic and I think you'll be shocked at the difference between the two on paper.
What carriers don't charge you to listen to your voicemail? Also when do you physically turn off your personal phone for more than 24 hours? T mobile delivers my text messages as long as I'm in service range in 24 hours.
the only time I've been out of cell phone range for more than 6 hours was during an offshore sailboat race where we were 8 miles off the coast at one point. Once we were within 4 mile reception kicked back in no problem. The phone is always on and barring that everyone knows my email is myname@gmail.com if they HAVE to reach me. I came to realize that most voicemail is pretty useless and ends with the words "call me back". When you call them back they repeat everything in the voicemail - so why bother listening to it the first time?
You have reached Hadlock. If you need to leave a message, please hang up and send me a text message or email. Thank you." I've never checked my voicemail. If it's a personal call, they'll text message me. If it's business, they have my email address. Since it's a personal phone line it's mostly text messages.
Voicemail is just a gimmick to get you to use more minutes than you really should, at no expense to the carrier since they don't actually have to connect the call to anyone. It's 100% profit.
GP mentioned something about the beancounters. He's ultimately the one who writes the check for something like this. Wether or not he likes xoffe influences wether or we get caff toys. I.e. Itd be much easier to talk him into taking the IT dept on a deer hunting trip than buying an espresso machine
Yeah there's a coffee machine hot plate style as you described in every office in america. Pretty much the same design since WW1. A coffee pot costs all of $12 vs. $300 for a real espresso machine. Plus there's some actual skill involved in pulling a shot and the steamer is noisy when steaming milk. Coffee is pretty decent if you get it fresh brewed. I don't know anyone who drinks 2 hour old coffee.
What kind of phone call were you waiting on that you couldn't leave the phone in your car? Power tools + boats = phone stays in car, or (dry) sink in the boat.
The hot plate probably uses 100W on average. Which for an eight hour day is more energy than the 1200w percolator uses for half an hour. What's so hard to understand about this?
Unions? What unions? If I'm remembering correctly, this is the same mine that ruled its workers with such a totalitarian fist that it inspired Che Guevara to start a communist revolution in Cuba. I don't think unions are an issue in this part of the world.
Yeah, but the percolation process takes what, 12-15 minutes each time? 30 min a day * 30 days = 15 hours a month which is half of the running time required to make up the 1% as the GP pointed out. Running the heater to keep that cup of coffee at 150 degrees 8 hours a day surely is equal to the power usage when percolating for the other 30 minutes of the day.
Over a month (30 days of use)? Assuming the hot plate stays on all day, that's possible. Out coffee pot is used/percolates twice a day and the heater stays on the entire day.
Do you have any D&D background? That helps tremenously. I didn't take much to nethack as a kid but in my post college years logging into a server with my game on it from my bed has some appeal to it.
I was at a friend's dorm once, they were playing kingdom hearts. The guy was playing in the aladin level while his girlfriend read for him straight out of the guide. She could read about as fast as he could play. It was both sad and depressing. I swore to never read a players guide again.
Dude, pick up Team Fortress 2. Super active community, loads of fun. It was underrated when it was reviewed when it first came out, and with it's massive content patches, it's easily a 95/100.
In this economy, they're most likely looking to cut costs, especially with the rise in cost of raw materials. I've seen several (4) manufacturers (note he said he's IT for a manufacturer) go down in flames in the last year out of the 72 manufactures we work with. Another two have consolidated and significantly downsized their customer service departments.
Sounds like he's trying to justify firing you and hiring you back as an hourly contractor to cut costs. Go watch the part in Office Space where the guy is yelling at the bobs about how he communicates between the customer and the engineers. You're that guy.
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I'm not so sure about oil refinery capacity. When Houston got knocked offline for a few weeks (lots of the refineries are still offline!) refining capacity picked up in the North East. While there was a momentary panic in Georgia and KY, there was not actually a disruption in fuel supplies throughout the US like you'd expect. From what I understand we're using about 60% of our current capacity. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
Its not capacity that's the issue, it's 1970's era technology and 1970's EPA standards that have been largely ignored. I know. I've driven through Southeast Houston and seen the refineries myself.
I live in texas. Its required to teach in drivers ed, but not tested on.of course if you're over 18 you don't even have to take a test in texas (I believe)
There's no excuse for these people, but my girlfriend can't check, let alone change her oil or change a flat, even though those things are required (to be taught not practiced) to get your licence
Yeah but copying a file is a different skill set than wordprocessing or emailing. It's trivially easy to change your car's oil, but many people have never done it so they need you to walk them through it once or twice. If you've never copied a file you're not going to have any idea of how to do it. There's no real analog to copying a file in a GUI except maybe a copy machine, and i've never seen a copy machine icon in any contextual menu. I wouldn't expect a n00b to know how to copy a file.
My 30 year old pickup, 100% stock, passes California emission tests with flying colours.
Yeah but it's likely your truck doesn't have a catalytic converter. You're probably dumping 10x the pollutants into the atmosphere that a five year old car that doesn't meet it's emissions specs. Your emission specs (1978?) are so low there's almost no hurdle there to jump, or roll over, in this case. The fact alone that you're not running leaded gas probably helps tremendously. Toss some leaded gas in there and compare your ppm of pollutants vs. a 2001 honda civic and I think you'll be shocked at the difference between the two on paper.
Oh, yes, motors could be much more efficient now, too. But given our insanely cheap gasoline (yes, $4/gal is that), consumers just don't care.
Light, cheap, or fast. Pick any two.
I've got free text messaging on my $60/mo plan, along with unlimited data (email). Most of my friends do too, or have the 500+ text message plans.
What carriers don't charge you to listen to your voicemail? Also when do you physically turn off your personal phone for more than 24 hours? T mobile delivers my text messages as long as I'm in service range in 24 hours.
the only time I've been out of cell phone range for more than 6 hours was during an offshore sailboat race where we were 8 miles off the coast at one point. Once we were within 4 mile reception kicked back in no problem. The phone is always on and barring that everyone knows my email is myname@gmail.com if they HAVE to reach me. I came to realize that most voicemail is pretty useless and ends with the words "call me back". When you call them back they repeat everything in the voicemail - so why bother listening to it the first time?
My voicemail goes something like this:
Voicemail is just a gimmick to get you to use more minutes than you really should, at no expense to the carrier since they don't actually have to connect the call to anyone. It's 100% profit.
Are you hiring? I've already got my foul weather gear ready to go. Also I've got an ssh client on my blackberry if that helps...
GP mentioned something about the beancounters. He's ultimately the one who writes the check for something like this. Wether or not he likes xoffe influences wether or we get caff toys. I.e. Itd be much easier to talk him into taking the IT dept on a deer hunting trip than buying an espresso machine
Well I sit next to the ceo of our 16 person company. I'll ask him and let you know what he says. For the record he doesn't drink coffee.
Yeah there's a coffee machine hot plate style as you described in every office in america. Pretty much the same design since WW1. A coffee pot costs all of $12 vs. $300 for a real espresso machine. Plus there's some actual skill involved in pulling a shot and the steamer is noisy when steaming milk. Coffee is pretty decent if you get it fresh brewed. I don't know anyone who drinks 2 hour old coffee.
What kind of phone call were you waiting on that you couldn't leave the phone in your car? Power tools + boats = phone stays in car, or (dry) sink in the boat.
The hot plate probably uses 100W on average. Which for an eight hour day is more energy than the 1200w percolator uses for half an hour. What's so hard to understand about this?
Unions? What unions? If I'm remembering correctly, this is the same mine that ruled its workers with such a totalitarian fist that it inspired Che Guevara to start a communist revolution in Cuba. I don't think unions are an issue in this part of the world.
Yeah, but the percolation process takes what, 12-15 minutes each time? 30 min a day * 30 days = 15 hours a month which is half of the running time required to make up the 1% as the GP pointed out. Running the heater to keep that cup of coffee at 150 degrees 8 hours a day surely is equal to the power usage when percolating for the other 30 minutes of the day.
We make a batch at 9 and another at three. All but the last "courtesy" cup is gone by 9:30 and 3:30 but the warmer is on all day.
Over a month (30 days of use)? Assuming the hot plate stays on all day, that's possible. Out coffee pot is used/percolates twice a day and the heater stays on the entire day.
Do you have any D&D background? That helps tremenously. I didn't take much to nethack as a kid but in my post college years logging into a server with my game on it from my bed has some appeal to it.
I was at a friend's dorm once, they were playing kingdom hearts. The guy was playing in the aladin level while his girlfriend read for him straight out of the guide. She could read about as fast as he could play. It was both sad and depressing. I swore to never read a players guide again.
Dude, pick up Team Fortress 2. Super active community, loads of fun. It was underrated when it was reviewed when it first came out, and with it's massive content patches, it's easily a 95/100.
That would help explain Roosevelt's outstanding election margin of win(s) I keep seeing in the newspaper charts.
In this economy, they're most likely looking to cut costs, especially with the rise in cost of raw materials. I've seen several (4) manufacturers (note he said he's IT for a manufacturer) go down in flames in the last year out of the 72 manufactures we work with. Another two have consolidated and significantly downsized their customer service departments.
Sounds like he's trying to justify firing you and hiring you back as an hourly contractor to cut costs. Go watch the part in Office Space where the guy is yelling at the bobs about how he communicates between the customer and the engineers. You're that guy.
Good Luck.