I'm as environmentalist as the next hippie/geek, I love the outdoors and would like to use them for the rest of my life. But there have got to be plenty of good sites that can house a couple decent power plants.
Those Sierra Clubbers would find it quite difficult to bitch about everything with no lights in their building. (yes, it's flamebait about the Sierra Club, but that's just my own opinion. Sorry)
That's a wondrous idea, as I have never seen a server that can do power management, well, at least a comercial grade server. It's pretty easy to build a machine out of server grade parts that would have power management, but it wouldn't have that pretty IBM or Compaq on the front of the box.
The biggest problem that I see however, is that while a 10 second delay in waiting for a hard drive to spin up, etc. may not seem like much, most requests on a server do not come one at a time. By the time the server was fully ready to accept requests, it could potentially have hundreds of requests stacked up. Much like taking a drink of water from Niagara Falls. Not a pretty sight for those impatient people in your office that can't wait for ANYthing on their systems, much less first thing in the morning, when most servers are hit the hardest.
Although, getting servers to shut off their own monitors, or being able to put them into an effective forced sleep mode from say 1130 at night to 6am would certainly help the power problems.
Just my two cents worth, take with multiple grains of salt:-)
I would have to say that I stand on both sides of the issue.
On one side, you have the pro, which says that yes, employers do nothing less than rape the talent of highly skilled workers, all for higher profits, better stock prices, and longer vacations for themselves. All the while, people like you and me are working 80 hour weeks with a vacation a year consisting of a friday-monday weekend vacation. It sucks, plain and simple. I didn't strive to be good at what I do only to have the sales and marketing people who run companies to determine that I am not living up to their f**ked up standards. I say form up, get some tech power organized and watch these sales and marketing mgrs crap themselves when their whole MIS/IT/IS group goes on strike from being given 2 week deadlines for 4 month long projects.
OTOH, I married into a phone family, my in-laws, their parents, and a most of their friends worked for the Bell, when it was just Bell. They were all in the union, and they had their cars trashed, lives threatened and were damn near physically assaulted when they HAD to cross the picket lines just to be able to buy food and pay their utilities in the middle of winter in Minnesota. Where was their strike pay that was in their union contracts? It was gone, nobody knew where, but the only consolation that they received from the union was a picnic with chips and soda.
Unions can be just as corrupt, if not more, than the companies they represent, and there isnt a whole lot to stop them.
I guess there really isnt a way to say whether or not a tech union would turn out alright, but it certainly stands a bigger chance of succeeding with people like us (read/. readers, Linux geeks, and even the occasional Windows user, provided they are really likable) than with that corrupt bunch of criminals called the CWA.
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How can they measure the speed without affecting it? kinda like measuring something at absolute zero, as soon as you try to measure it, it absobs thats energy and heats up. Well, same thing, as soon as you measure the speed, you move it, and increase the speed.
Isn't this the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
However, I am not a world class physicist, so take what I say with a proton size grain of salt.:-)
Intel has already released a statement that they are not going to be expanding in CA anymore, due to the power restrictions there, they plan tol build their next plant here in good ol' Arizona.
California is headed for something big, they just dont see it yet. They know they have to build more plants, and there are plans to do so, but those take years to build.
Expect CA to go into a mild to moderate recession of its own over the next 3-5 years, as businesses move out to get more power.
Don't they know what they are doing? geeks like you and me are in agony over news like this.
Seriously, tho, the conspiracy theorist in me says that this is FUD created by George Lucas over getting snubbed by The Matrix at the Oscars last year.:-)
but thats just me, and everything I say should be taken with a 2-ton grain of salt.
I used to work for a mortgage/credit company and had to deal with the big three of credit agencies on a daily basis. In all honesty, they hold just as much power over people as the government, if not more. They can prevent you from getting jobs (yes, about half of employers will pull your credit during the hiring process) getting houses, cars, credit cards, loans, and money in general, which we all know, makes the world go around.
I personally have been 'blacklisted' for things that happened over 7 years previous, which they claim is the limit on credit reporting, I had to write multiple letters to get a house, even though I made 2-3x more than the loan officer even did.
It's a screwed up system, and in dire need of a trustbusting baseball bat to the head.
At my last job, I hardly ever talked to my boss. Mainly becuase he was a lousy boss and anything that I did, good OR bad, was usually criticized in some shape or form.
"Great job, but you are too much of a smartass, and your customers don't like you."
"Well, you weren't a smartass, but I think you did a shitty job, so maybe you can have a raise next year"
I am reminded of a line from 'Office Space' - "I just don't want to be hassled by my boss" (it didn't go like that, but if you saw the movie, you know what i'm talking about). I simply didn't talk to my boss out of efficiency, it enabled me to get so much more done when I didn't have him being a PHB all the damn time. But that seems to be the way of working for Ma Bell; paid as underlings, treated as such.
I'll have to admit, as much as the MPAA blows goats, they do have a right to their content, their execution of controllling it leaves a lot to be desired, but thats another story..:-)
But this could even things out a bit, what if DVD was the unrestricted, free media that it should be, and the 20 year old VHS format was replaced with something strictly for home entertainment systems? I think that would be the ideal solution, THEY get their proprietary format for high end home entertainment, we get the free unrestriced, high quality DVD's for our PC's.
I say they accept the D-VHS satandard and open DVD wide for all of the world to use.
I heard a wise man once say: Want to know discrimination? try being a black, jewish lesbian in Alabama.
Seriously, this is going to end up just like every other lawsuit out there today. They settle out of court for an undisclosed amount. The lawyers get an absolutely obscene cut of the settlement. End of story.
Problem is, it wont fix the problem. Racism IS a big problem in this industry. In 5 years in this field, I have known 2 blacks and one Hispanic who worked the same type of job as me. and I work in Phoenix, where something like HALF of the population is hispanic.
The only real solution? Applications and review forms that have one thing on them, a number. No name, no age, no sex, no race, nothing. I dont know what it must be like for minorities, but I have been severly discriminated against due to my age. I was literally ushered out of an interview once a couple years ago because "That's way too much money to be making at your age with no college, but your experience and credentials look fine, so don't take it personally. Just keep trying."
It sucked. Bad. I probably should have sued the shit out of them on the spot.
"Microsoft today announced that it would be installing computers with internet access and a full licensed copy of Office 2000 on every tree in the forests and wilderness areas surrounding the greater Seattle area.
Microsoft spokesman Steve Ballmer said in an interview that "he knows that people want this, they just don't know it yet. If you can't check your email while on vacation in the woods, what good are you in this world anyways? I check my email when I am on the crapper, everyone else should too."
In an unrelated story, Microsoft claims that 'forest creatures are now responsible for the stolen Windows source code', and that they are in the process of acquiring a thermonuclear warhead to use on the cute and fuzzies of Washington state."
The media probably havent replied because through their own censorship, they cant report on anything like fuckedcompany.com. Besides, they still havent done the recount on the investors.:-)
I have been using my Athlon 650 for about 8 mos now, and it blows the doors off anything I have had yet. I had known about AMD processors for a couple years and had never been in the market for one. Then I got my 650. It's better for gaming (UT runs faster on my 650 at home than the 733 intel boxen at work), better for desktop stuff, just quicker in general.
Reminds of something that someone said once: People (companies) get what they deserve, be it good or bad. AMD got what they deserved by designing a superior product. Intel got what they deserved in their own marketing arrogance dooming the company until they redesign their entire line of procs.
Only problem is, Windows runs better on an AMD, so I guess the end of Microsoft isnt as close as we would like it be.
This very thing happened to me at my last job, and was the reason that I left.
It wasnt that I was being forced into management, but one of the more senior people in my group was. Upper management had offered to him and we knew who would take the job if he didnt, and that was NOT an option any of us were looking for. Looking back a year later, I think I would have taken the other guy, as the person promoted from my group was the absolute WRONG person to be in charge of us.
You see, we were hardware geeks, we loved toys, who doesn't?:-) But when he had to be the one to lead us, there were a lot of mixed messages and favoritism. It led to a lot of conflict that shouldnt have been there if didnt know any of us before hand. When I quit, there was one person left from the original 5 that were there, as the rest of us had left. Coincedentally, the only person left when I quit was the one who was the boss' best friend from before the promotion. Go figure.
Where did you find the thing about the Ten Commandments only being available in zone 1? Do you have a link I can see, as I would like to read up on that tidbit as well:-)
It's a good bet we won't see any US agencies speaking out the same way. And that's a shame.
It's also a damn good bet you wont see a SINGLE solitary media agency in the US even report this story, which is just pathetic.
My wife was slightly happy at the money that we saved this Xmas again, as I still refuse to own a DVD player or disc. My hard-earned dollars still do not go to Jack Valenti or any of his lawyers.
Remember to keep handing out 2600.com's flyers and inform the rest of the world of what is happening in the world around them.
For some reason, I have this image in my head of Daffy Duck in the one old cartoon about the buried treasure, after he has been shrunk, maniacally grasping a large pearl and screaming "It's mine, mine I say, mine, all mine!!!"
Here's what I do to prevent it, or rather keep it from showing up in my primary mailbox.
Keep many email addresses, I have about 6 or so, I think. I have one that doesn't go out to anyone but my friends and family, period. I have another one that I use for signing up for free crap on the internet. I check it every couple days, I usually has 100+ every time I clean out the box.
Then comes the fun part: I have a few more addresses that I track very carefully. I have a notebook of what email addy I used to sign up for what. Then, when I start getting spam on any of the dummy accts, it makes it easy to figure out what company is either a) spamming you, or b) selling your email addy to a spammer.
I also do the same thing with my regular mail address when I sign up for things. Just toss in an intentional type-o and watch it flourish from one company to 15+. (I have mail coming to me from about that many companies with the same type-o on it, none will own up to where they got it)
On a side note, you can sorta do the same thing with telemarketers, but fucking with them is a lot more fun than blocking them entirely. I once had the rare opportunity to make a carpet cleaning company hang up on me for keeping them on the phone for twenty minutes only to tell them that I have wood floors. Laughed my ass off for weeks on that one...
You mean to say that, russians and americans don't get along famously like the movies, TV and late night news report?
Thats it, I'm calling my local news station to do an expose on this, as this just totally unacceptable...:P
I will however, commend them on being able to get the job done even when you don't like someone. It can be difficult. I had a job a while back that when I quit, I realized that the one person there that I liked and wanted to work with in the future was someone that I had just hated when I started there. Turned out to have a pretty healthy respect for one another.
it would appear that the very thing that the FBI was faraid of, that of people being able to communicate in an untracable medium, the DoD has gone and done for them so that they wont have to worry about it.
GlabalStar hasnt been selling like the investors had originally wanted, and could possibly be on its way out in the next couple years if things keep going down this path.
Take those two players out of the picture and there is no way to have a wireless communications system that cant be tracked by the government.
One: Mp3.com would be collecting not only a fee to listen to music that you already own, but selling your data to outside companies for "marketing purposes" (everyone say that you are under 18 and foil the pricks that way)
Two: I never used the my.mp3.com service personally, so I could be talking out my ass on this, but it checks to see if you have the cd by using a small piece of software to check and make sure the cd is in the drive, right? Harmless enough. HOWEVER, does this software only run on windows and mac? Is there "not going to be enough people using Linux to warrant software" a la MPAA style, thereby putting alternate OS'es on the consumer back burner?
This is really pathetic, you know? The RIAA found a LEGAL way to put a rival company out of business, as nobody is going to want to pay for something that they got for free.
The pisser is, if I knew that my money would go to mp3.com and not royalties to the recording industry, I would give them money just like the EFF. But now I know that my money would only go to paying their exorbitant penalty fee and to have them sell my info to outside companies, no thank you.
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I'm as environmentalist as the next hippie/geek, I love the outdoors and would like to use them for the rest of my life. But there have got to be plenty of good sites that can house a couple decent power plants.
Those Sierra Clubbers would find it quite difficult to bitch about everything with no lights in their building. (yes, it's flamebait about the Sierra Club, but that's just my own opinion. Sorry)
The biggest problem that I see however, is that while a 10 second delay in waiting for a hard drive to spin up, etc. may not seem like much, most requests on a server do not come one at a time. By the time the server was fully ready to accept requests, it could potentially have hundreds of requests stacked up. Much like taking a drink of water from Niagara Falls. Not a pretty sight for those impatient people in your office that can't wait for ANYthing on their systems, much less first thing in the morning, when most servers are hit the hardest.
Although, getting servers to shut off their own monitors, or being able to put them into an effective forced sleep mode from say 1130 at night to 6am would certainly help the power problems.
Just my two cents worth, take with multiple grains of salt :-)
On one side, you have the pro, which says that yes, employers do nothing less than rape the talent of highly skilled workers, all for higher profits, better stock prices, and longer vacations for themselves. All the while, people like you and me are working 80 hour weeks with a vacation a year consisting of a friday-monday weekend vacation. It sucks, plain and simple. I didn't strive to be good at what I do only to have the sales and marketing people who run companies to determine that I am not living up to their f**ked up standards. I say form up, get some tech power organized and watch these sales and marketing mgrs crap themselves when their whole MIS/IT/IS group goes on strike from being given 2 week deadlines for 4 month long projects.
OTOH, I married into a phone family, my in-laws, their parents, and a most of their friends worked for the Bell, when it was just Bell. They were all in the union, and they had their cars trashed, lives threatened and were damn near physically assaulted when they HAD to cross the picket lines just to be able to buy food and pay their utilities in the middle of winter in Minnesota. Where was their strike pay that was in their union contracts? It was gone, nobody knew where, but the only consolation that they received from the union was a picnic with chips and soda.
Unions can be just as corrupt, if not more, than the companies they represent, and there isnt a whole lot to stop them.
I guess there really isnt a way to say whether or not a tech union would turn out alright, but it certainly stands a bigger chance of succeeding with people like us (read /. readers, Linux geeks, and even the occasional Windows user, provided they are really likable) than with that corrupt bunch of criminals called the CWA.
Isn't this the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle? However, I am not a world class physicist, so take what I say with a proton size grain of salt. :-)
California is headed for something big, they just dont see it yet. They know they have to build more plants, and there are plans to do so, but those take years to build.
Expect CA to go into a mild to moderate recession of its own over the next 3-5 years, as businesses move out to get more power.
Seriously, tho, the conspiracy theorist in me says that this is FUD created by George Lucas over getting snubbed by The Matrix at the Oscars last year. :-)
but thats just me, and everything I say should be taken with a 2-ton grain of salt.
I personally have been 'blacklisted' for things that happened over 7 years previous, which they claim is the limit on credit reporting, I had to write multiple letters to get a house, even though I made 2-3x more than the loan officer even did.
It's a screwed up system, and in dire need of a trustbusting baseball bat to the head.
"Great job, but you are too much of a smartass, and your customers don't like you."
"Well, you weren't a smartass, but I think you did a shitty job, so maybe you can have a raise next year"
I am reminded of a line from 'Office Space' - "I just don't want to be hassled by my boss" (it didn't go like that, but if you saw the movie, you know what i'm talking about). I simply didn't talk to my boss out of efficiency, it enabled me to get so much more done when I didn't have him being a PHB all the damn time. But that seems to be the way of working for Ma Bell; paid as underlings, treated as such.
But this could even things out a bit, what if DVD was the unrestricted, free media that it should be, and the 20 year old VHS format was replaced with something strictly for home entertainment systems? I think that would be the ideal solution, THEY get their proprietary format for high end home entertainment, we get the free unrestriced, high quality DVD's for our PC's.
I say they accept the D-VHS satandard and open DVD wide for all of the world to use.
Damn Dirty Apes!!!!
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Seriously, this is going to end up just like every other lawsuit out there today. They settle out of court for an undisclosed amount. The lawyers get an absolutely obscene cut of the settlement. End of story.
Problem is, it wont fix the problem. Racism IS a big problem in this industry. In 5 years in this field, I have known 2 blacks and one Hispanic who worked the same type of job as me. and I work in Phoenix, where something like HALF of the population is hispanic.
The only real solution? Applications and review forms that have one thing on them, a number. No name, no age, no sex, no race, nothing. I dont know what it must be like for minorities, but I have been severly discriminated against due to my age. I was literally ushered out of an interview once a couple years ago because "That's way too much money to be making at your age with no college, but your experience and credentials look fine, so don't take it personally. Just keep trying."
It sucked. Bad. I probably should have sued the shit out of them on the spot.
"Microsoft today announced that it would be installing computers with internet access and a full licensed copy of Office 2000 on every tree in the forests and wilderness areas surrounding the greater Seattle area.
Microsoft spokesman Steve Ballmer said in an interview that "he knows that people want this, they just don't know it yet. If you can't check your email while on vacation in the woods, what good are you in this world anyways? I check my email when I am on the crapper, everyone else should too."
In an unrelated story, Microsoft claims that 'forest creatures are now responsible for the stolen Windows source code', and that they are in the process of acquiring a thermonuclear warhead to use on the cute and fuzzies of Washington state."
The media probably havent replied because through their own censorship, they cant report on anything like fuckedcompany.com. Besides, they still havent done the recount on the investors. :-)
Reminds of something that someone said once: People (companies) get what they deserve, be it good or bad. AMD got what they deserved by designing a superior product. Intel got what they deserved in their own marketing arrogance dooming the company until they redesign their entire line of procs.
Only problem is, Windows runs better on an AMD, so I guess the end of Microsoft isnt as close as we would like it be.
It wasnt that I was being forced into management, but one of the more senior people in my group was. Upper management had offered to him and we knew who would take the job if he didnt, and that was NOT an option any of us were looking for. Looking back a year later, I think I would have taken the other guy, as the person promoted from my group was the absolute WRONG person to be in charge of us.
You see, we were hardware geeks, we loved toys, who doesn't? :-) But when he had to be the one to lead us, there were a lot of mixed messages and favoritism. It led to a lot of conflict that shouldnt have been there if didnt know any of us before hand. When I quit, there was one person left from the original 5 that were there, as the rest of us had left. Coincedentally, the only person left when I quit was the one who was the boss' best friend from before the promotion. Go figure.
Where did you find the thing about the Ten Commandments only being available in zone 1? Do you have a link I can see, as I would like to read up on that tidbit as well :-)
It's also a damn good bet you wont see a SINGLE solitary media agency in the US even report this story, which is just pathetic.
My wife was slightly happy at the money that we saved this Xmas again, as I still refuse to own a DVD player or disc. My hard-earned dollars still do not go to Jack Valenti or any of his lawyers.
Remember to keep handing out 2600.com's flyers and inform the rest of the world of what is happening in the world around them.
Is that why they nicknamed him 'Buzz' Aldrin?
Well, since it DID say that he was married, that should answer that, but it didnt way that he had any kids, now did it? :-)
For some reason, I have this image in my head of Daffy Duck in the one old cartoon about the buried treasure, after he has been shrunk, maniacally grasping a large pearl and screaming "It's mine, mine I say, mine, all mine!!!"
Keep many email addresses, I have about 6 or so, I think. I have one that doesn't go out to anyone but my friends and family, period. I have another one that I use for signing up for free crap on the internet. I check it every couple days, I usually has 100+ every time I clean out the box.
Then comes the fun part: I have a few more addresses that I track very carefully. I have a notebook of what email addy I used to sign up for what. Then, when I start getting spam on any of the dummy accts, it makes it easy to figure out what company is either a) spamming you, or b) selling your email addy to a spammer.
I also do the same thing with my regular mail address when I sign up for things. Just toss in an intentional type-o and watch it flourish from one company to 15+. (I have mail coming to me from about that many companies with the same type-o on it, none will own up to where they got it)
On a side note, you can sorta do the same thing with telemarketers, but fucking with them is a lot more fun than blocking them entirely. I once had the rare opportunity to make a carpet cleaning company hang up on me for keeping them on the phone for twenty minutes only to tell them that I have wood floors. Laughed my ass off for weeks on that one...
Thats it, I'm calling my local news station to do an expose on this, as this just totally unacceptable...:P
I will however, commend them on being able to get the job done even when you don't like someone. It can be difficult. I had a job a while back that when I quit, I realized that the one person there that I liked and wanted to work with in the future was someone that I had just hated when I started there. Turned out to have a pretty healthy respect for one another.
it would appear that the very thing that the FBI was faraid of, that of people being able to communicate in an untracable medium, the DoD has gone and done for them so that they wont have to worry about it.
GlabalStar hasnt been selling like the investors had originally wanted, and could possibly be on its way out in the next couple years if things keep going down this path.
Take those two players out of the picture and there is no way to have a wireless communications system that cant be tracked by the government.
Two: I never used the my.mp3.com service personally, so I could be talking out my ass on this, but it checks to see if you have the cd by using a small piece of software to check and make sure the cd is in the drive, right? Harmless enough. HOWEVER, does this software only run on windows and mac? Is there "not going to be enough people using Linux to warrant software" a la MPAA style, thereby putting alternate OS'es on the consumer back burner?
This is really pathetic, you know? The RIAA found a LEGAL way to put a rival company out of business, as nobody is going to want to pay for something that they got for free.
The pisser is, if I knew that my money would go to mp3.com and not royalties to the recording industry, I would give them money just like the EFF. But now I know that my money would only go to paying their exorbitant penalty fee and to have them sell my info to outside companies, no thank you.