Go to an important (for your kids) Wikipedia article, say one on Hannah Montanah.
Edit it. Add the fact that she has a dinosaur for a pet. Or the part about her having five elbows. Save. Show. (And then revert.) Ask your kid about the wisdom of using Wikipedia. (*)
I am actually proud of my kids' school, where they have banned wikipedia for use as a source.
(*) Extra Credit. Visit a free wifi coffee house. Try and deface the page for Jamie Lynn Spears, or Lindsay Lohan. Add some sort of scandal. Save the page. See if anyone was able to detect it the next day.
Demon with a Glass Hand by Harlan Ellison tells the story of a man who can only remember the past ten days struggling to determine who he is, why he has a glass hand with missing fingers, and why an alien race is trying to kill him.
In the denouement a very important copper wire with very high density storage is central.
I think it's a good sign your company has local HR that can opportunistically take a resume or forward a phone call. I would *like* to think that having this ability becomes a competitive advantage and makes it easier for companies to find good candidates and hire them, something they would presumably want to do.
I'm the senior administrator/programmer/dba on a financial system that deals with about 2,000,000 dollars a week. I've got 7 years of college and 3 degrees, so 19 years of education. Some of what I do could be done by someone with only a high school degree, and a fricking ton of training, but the bulk of it is hilariously abstruse, and really needs someone with a bit more skill.
At the senior level, perhaps. Most likely all the people need is a tech school education in rdbms and your domain experience in your particular industry. Senior level people always have an advantage in senior level positions because of the domain experience.
At the entry and mid levels, most likely there's lots of potential immigrants that could do the work with just a tech school degree. And people do outsource that stuff, and that's why those jobs and yours are fleeing. But for the jobs we're talking about, whether it's picking fruit, cutting up chicken, landscaping, construction, most of those jobs can't flee, and ensuring that employers are not hiring illegals will not cause those jobs to go unfilled.
Let me ask you a different question. Are you part of a large company with multiple locations around the country? Does your company use or lobby for H1-B visa jobs? And finally, does your company have an HR department at every (relatively large) site who can take applications, inspect them, knows the jobs and the managers, and can call up a hiring manager if an applicant that walks in the door looks good?
I think that anyone that wants to use H1-B visas or similar should have to have local hiring managers and hr people that know the local jobs and can bypass the "central resume system" and those folks should have to be able to handle walk-ins, phone calls, and letters addressed to the local office for jobs in the local office. It used to be very easy to drive to a new town and then tour all the interesting companies handing out resumes and getting on the spot interviews or interviews scheduled for later that week. Now that is a very risky, worthless strategy. Resumes go to some office 2000 miles away, are scanned, and there is no ability to opportunistically examine applicants for local work. This does nothing to help the company find qualified local applicants and does everything to help them find the need to employ h1-b visas to help keep salaries down.
I bet it doesn't require a 12 year education to do 80% of your job. And I bet there are plenty of people from around the world qualified, and eager to come here and do your job.
And I'm not sure anyone says that stopping the hiring of illegal immigrants would cause our economy to boom. I think what they are saying is it would help stem job losses and unemployment to American citizens.
Just curious, why was DKIM chosen as an IETF standard and not SPF? Apart from requiring faster machines to implement the crypto for each message, what does DKIM provide that SPF cannot provide?
Economists say the price should tend to its marginal cost. Clearly there is a market failure here, since competition would drive the prices to zero. That the costs are so high, akin to printer ink, suggests there is not enough competition.
Basically, it's because we can't easily unlock phones and move them around.
Predator at Edwards It's sitting next to a B-1. If you scroll around you can find three V-22s, 2 747 Shuttle Carriers, 2 more B-1s, an SR-71, 3 B-52s, a Flying Boxcar, several warbirds, lots of jets and helicopters and three mechas, mostly disassembled and buried in the sand.
I've started at image for two days, but where's Waldo (pepper)?
FWIW: Razors: what is secret is how long they last
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As I recall from a class a long time ago, all of those n-bladed hexi-flexi razors are built to very high technology standards. It was apparently a $1B and bet your company kind of investment by Gillette to initiate these sorts of razors and create the machines that could do the sort of precise welding needed.
The razors themselves are high tech and excellent quality -- they don't want you to cut yourself which would be bad for repeat business.
What is kept very secret is how the manufacturer thinks they should last. To create repeat business, they won't tell you to replace the blade daily, weekly, or monthly. They'll let you decide.
I came in here to say exactly that. The design and source to Tcl and the source to AOLServer are actually clean, clear, and elegant. I think much of that is thanks to the Tcl/Tk Engineering Guide.
Who moderated the parent up? Do you have any proof that: a) that anonymous coward is the same anonymous coward from the grandparent? b) that the anonymous coward actually works for quicken loans and not say, for Countrywide or Microsoft?
Why is the parent "5 informative" and not "5 funny?"
Instead of outright banning them why don't they send them to their own server? That way they can still keep track of who they are and perhaps not clue the modders in to the fact that MS knows that they've modded their box. MS could even run some well written bots to populate the server and totally kick the modders' asses.
I think it would be great fun to allow gamers to actively develop the system. They could work to establish various limits. Work to undo other restrictions, and they could even create a market place for the best hacks.
Look what Hiro Protagonist did for sword fighting in the metaverse by removing the restriction that kept one object from passing through another object.
I want a Cellphone running X with a Docking Port
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I want a cellphone running Linux with a docking port. I want to dock it to a better keyboard and a typical desktop display and network, and I want to be able to login to it remotely via ssh and display apps remotely via X, and to get to its storage as a network drive or usb drive.
Seems pretty trivial, when that's available, let me know.
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Go to an important (for your kids) Wikipedia article, say one on Hannah Montanah.
Edit it. Add the fact that she has a dinosaur for a pet. Or the part about her having five elbows. Save. Show. (And then revert.) Ask your kid about the wisdom of using Wikipedia. (*)
I am actually proud of my kids' school, where they have banned wikipedia for use as a source.
(*) Extra Credit. Visit a free wifi coffee house. Try and deface the page for Jamie Lynn Spears, or Lindsay Lohan. Add some sort of scandal. Save the page. See if anyone was able to detect it the next day.
Demon with a Glass Hand by Harlan Ellison tells the story of a man who can only remember the past ten days struggling to determine who he is, why he has a glass hand with missing fingers, and why an alien race is trying to kill him.
In the denouement a very important copper wire with very high density storage is central.
44 year old spoilers at the link.
Check out this antenna: http://uhfhdtvantenna.blogspot.com/
It has gotten some interesting write ups and looks similar in many ways to the new hoverman.
This is fantastic. I've been bitching that instead of putting up more speed cameras what our cities should be doing is putting up traffic information.
One violates citizens' privacy through IT, and the other offers value to citizens and requires no privacy rights be violated.
Desktop computer fine. Laptop computer WAY WAY dangerous.
I think it's a good sign your company has local HR that can opportunistically take a resume or forward a phone call. I would *like* to think that having this ability becomes a competitive advantage and makes it easier for companies to find good candidates and hire them, something they would presumably want to do.
I'm the senior administrator/programmer/dba on a financial system that deals with about 2,000,000 dollars a week. I've got 7 years of college and 3 degrees, so 19 years of education. Some of what I do could be done by someone with only a high school degree, and a fricking ton of training, but the bulk of it is hilariously abstruse, and really needs someone with a bit more skill.
At the senior level, perhaps. Most likely all the people need is a tech school education in rdbms and your domain experience in your particular industry. Senior level people always have an advantage in senior level positions because of the domain experience.
At the entry and mid levels, most likely there's lots of potential immigrants that could do the work with just a tech school degree. And people do outsource that stuff, and that's why those jobs and yours are fleeing. But for the jobs we're talking about, whether it's picking fruit, cutting up chicken, landscaping, construction, most of those jobs can't flee, and ensuring that employers are not hiring illegals will not cause those jobs to go unfilled.
Let me ask you a different question. Are you part of a large company with multiple locations around the country? Does your company use or lobby for H1-B visa jobs? And finally, does your company have an HR department at every (relatively large) site who can take applications, inspect them, knows the jobs and the managers, and can call up a hiring manager if an applicant that walks in the door looks good?
I think that anyone that wants to use H1-B visas or similar should have to have local hiring managers and hr people that know the local jobs and can bypass the "central resume system" and those folks should have to be able to handle walk-ins, phone calls, and letters addressed to the local office for jobs in the local office. It used to be very easy to drive to a new town and then tour all the interesting companies handing out resumes and getting on the spot interviews or interviews scheduled for later that week. Now that is a very risky, worthless strategy. Resumes go to some office 2000 miles away, are scanned, and there is no ability to opportunistically examine applicants for local work. This does nothing to help the company find qualified local applicants and does everything to help them find the need to employ h1-b visas to help keep salaries down.
What job do you do?
I bet it doesn't require a 12 year education to do 80% of your job. And I bet there are plenty of people from around the world qualified, and eager to come here and do your job.
And I'm not sure anyone says that stopping the hiring of illegal immigrants would cause our economy to boom. I think what they are saying is it would help stem job losses and unemployment to American citizens.
And to find this out the day I discover my paxil/zoloft/venlafaxine does nothing.
Beer me.
Just curious, why was DKIM chosen as an IETF standard and not SPF? Apart from requiring faster machines to implement the crypto for each message, what does DKIM provide that SPF cannot provide?
Very nice adaptation of Robert Frost.
Economists say the price should tend to its marginal cost. Clearly there is a market failure here, since competition would drive the prices to zero. That the costs are so high, akin to printer ink, suggests there is not enough competition.
Basically, it's because we can't easily unlock phones and move them around.
Every fact on Wikipedia has a link back to the primary source{{fact|citation needed}}
in Cheesburger?
What is free wifi at the price of a cheeseburger?
Or let me thank you again for pointing identifying the Global Hawk and pointing out Creech Air Force Base. Interesting googling.
Thank you! I missed that chunk a few weeks ago, when for whatever reason, I google mapped Edwards.
Predator at Edwards It's sitting next to a B-1. If you scroll around you can find three V-22s, 2 747 Shuttle Carriers, 2 more B-1s, an SR-71, 3 B-52s, a Flying Boxcar, several warbirds, lots of jets and helicopters and three mechas, mostly disassembled and buried in the sand.
I've started at image for two days, but where's Waldo (pepper)?
As I recall from a class a long time ago, all of those n-bladed hexi-flexi razors are built to very high technology standards. It was apparently a $1B and bet your company kind of investment by Gillette to initiate these sorts of razors and create the machines that could do the sort of precise welding needed.
The razors themselves are high tech and excellent quality -- they don't want you to cut yourself which would be bad for repeat business.
What is kept very secret is how the manufacturer thinks they should last. To create repeat business, they won't tell you to replace the blade daily, weekly, or monthly. They'll let you decide.
140 football fields for 4000 servers? That's about 30 servers to a football field, or about 40'x40' per server.
Google tells me that a football field is 300'x160' or 57600 square feet.
If every server had 14 square feet you could put all 140 of them on one football field.
I came in here to say exactly that. The design and source to Tcl and the source to AOLServer are actually clean, clear, and elegant. I think much of that is thanks to the Tcl/Tk Engineering Guide.
I sure hope they make a consumer model without a camera.
Cameras are not appreciated at many large companies, and in hospitals.
What North American networks will an unlocked European iPhone work on? And what are the speeds of those networks?
Who moderated the parent up? Do you have any proof that:
a) that anonymous coward is the same anonymous coward from the grandparent?
b) that the anonymous coward actually works for quicken loans and not say, for Countrywide or Microsoft?
Why is the parent "5 informative" and not "5 funny?"
Instead of outright banning them why don't they send them to their own server? That way they can still keep track of who they are and perhaps not clue the modders in to the fact that MS knows that they've modded their box. MS could even run some well written bots to populate the server and totally kick the modders' asses.
I think it would be great fun to allow gamers to actively develop the system. They could work to establish various limits. Work to undo other restrictions, and they could even create a market place for the best hacks.
Look what Hiro Protagonist did for sword fighting in the metaverse by removing the restriction that kept one object from passing through another object.
I want a cellphone running Linux with a docking port. I want to dock it to a better keyboard and a typical desktop display and network, and I want to be able to login to it remotely via ssh and display apps remotely via X, and to get to its storage as a network drive or usb drive.
Seems pretty trivial, when that's available, let me know.