I was offered a job at my current work *after* I passed the interview, but before I could sign the paperwork.
I found it a bit strange that I sat in an interview, impressed them enough to get hired, and then they - what? wanted to know if I was an axe murderer?
The one question that stuck in my mind was "Have you ever felt so angry you thought you couldn't control your violent actions?". Seriously WTF? I would have thought that was covered in "No I don't have any violent crime convictions..."
I like it where I work though. Great company - but that psych test was amongst the wierdest set of questions I've ever been asked.
So would the solution then be to have a database replicate live to another machine, then take your daily dumps off the replicated machine, so that the forward facing database is unaffected?
Where I used to work we had a replicated database on a different box for most of the live systems for reporting. The reporting would kick off at a regular time and grind the replicated machine almost to a halt, but the live system would experience no slowdown.
Excuse my ignorance, but what happened in 1926, 1939 or 1942? I always thought Australia became a nation in its own right in 1901 with federation and the passing of the british Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act. Indeed, I remember a WWI documentary about Australia's war effort and the fiancial and socio-economic hardship it had on "such a young nation, barely 13 years old".
My daughter was born 7 weeks premature and spent 2 weeks in an incubator. As a side effect of spending so much time with her in the neonatal unit, I got to know what every switch and readout on her machine did. It was a very impressive piece of equipment designed to do one thing very well - keep a helpless human alive.
I would hazard a guess as to say that the insides of the machine are built with all sorts of hardware redundancy checks inside to ensure that its critical mission is carried out no matter what (I'm pretty sure it even had a UPS); which probably contributes somewhat to the high cost. That and the liability aspect inherent with any machine that keeps humans alive (from auto-respirators to space-suits).
I am fortunate enough to live in a country with a high standard of health care, and my daughter's stay in her expensive machine saved her life; however if a lower cost alternative that does the core functions of the expensive machines can be built for countries that are not as well off as we are, I am all for that. Expensive machines are also expensive to maintain, and if the TCO can be lowered to the point that poorer countries can operate them comfortably, that's got to be a benefit. It just goes to show that ingenuity knows no bounds.
I recently read through some policy documents at my work. The introduction had a paragraph about how "...notoriously expensive documentation is..." to write and maintain.
The next sentence was all about making said documentation leaner and thus less expensive. How is that done? By aligning with the principles of [some phrase written in latin] (!), and through "...the principles of ontological parsimony (!)". No Shit!
I had to use a dictionary to work out what the hell it was saying.
I think that it's possible that we will (probably during our inevitable colonisation of Mars at some point) find evidence of bacteria on Mars that wasn't brought there from Earth. Especially if the theory of Panspermia is correct, and since Earth and Mars have been known to swap rocks every now and again, it's not a giant leap to imagine that an asteroid bringing life to Earth may have also brought life to Mars. Now, if Mars had standing pools of water, rudimentary bacteria could have existed at some point.
Of course given Mars' extreme cold, crap atmosphere and almost zero shielding against cosmic radiation, any bacteria that did land there may have died out instantly - I guess we'll either find evidence of really hardy bacteria or no evidence at all - but in that case could we really be certain that Mars *never* had life?
"If you bring your work computer home with any regularity, chances are good that you've done the Laptop Drive of Shame. (Oh, c'mon, admit it.) It's happening more than ever... and costing more than ever, too, what with the price of gas and all."
I'll spoil it for you- they mean leaving your laptop at home. Yay monday news cycle.
I don't know if it would be as simplistic as 1) get email 2) check for spam 3) if spam then blacklist host. If I was creating a spam firewall for use by large corps I'd employ some sort of hit counter and other funky mathematics to determine heuristically if the connecting server is an open relay; or if it is a closed relay relaying one or two dodgy messages.
How do larger organizations deal with the spam issue?
I used to work for a mining company you've heard of. Our department had responsibility for managing the email vendor, who used Spamshark to filter spam coming into the organisation. From my limited knowledge of the setup, Spamshark does basic blacklisting etc. but also does selective blacklisting on specific IPs when an email is flagged by a user. So Alice flags a message as spam, Spamshark figures out the message id, grabs the IP address it came from (it knows because it previously handled the email), and then blacklists that IP for a certain amount of time. Now this internal blacklist is then shared to all the other customers who use Spamshark, so they are now protected too; resulting in a 5 nines hit rate on spam.
Like I said we just handled vendor relations, and the above description might not be totally accurate, but this is what I gathered when we dealt with them. I also remember getting about 10 complaints of spam a month for an organisation with 10's of thousands of email addresses - so it was very effective.
I think the trick is that TV is guaged at a level of "Here I am with the remote... is there *something* worth staying here for, or is *all* of it so bad I have to shut it off?"
I have to agree. To me, sitting in front of the TV for hours on end is exactly the same as throwing some random TV-programmer schmuck the keys to my brain and saying "Here, you drive for a while". No thanks.
A couple of years ago I decided to selectively watch only the TV programs that *really* engage my attention. Shows that I feel like I've had an experience after watching them. If a show doesn't give me that feeling I don't watch it again. Period. So now I have a few favourites (House and Lost to specify the entire list); but on the other hand, if I don't catch them for a few weeks because I'm busy with something else, no biggy. There are much better things to occupy my time with.
The pessimist in me says that once people start having convictions and desires to do something again, we'll have a lot more war.
Perhaps if war was precipitated by populations having convictions and desires that ran contrary to other (usually neighboring) countries.
More often than not however, modern wars have been carefully and deliberately started as a strategic tool by governments independent of their citizens' wishes, using willing arms dealers that stand to make a lot of money out of the conflict (and provide fat kickbacks to the government in the process).
Now does anyone know how I can capture HD footage from my camcorder over a supported firewire input in Linux?
Kino does SD great over firewire (my camcorder can downsample), but borks out (gray output) when I try it with HD. I've googled and sourceforged but cannot seem to find anything that will do it. I know my PC is fast enough because I used to do it with Premiere Elements.
"...not what a corporation or media outlet decides we should want."
I never thought one could get pithy one-liners from a video game, but I think the GTA writers had the nail hit on the head with one of the radio station's advertisements (I think it was from Liberty City):
"We tell you what's good! Then play it 'till you like it!"
I think that sums up the Label's business methods quite succinctly.
I suppose the easy way to find out would be to send a series of transponders out into the past, and then analyse the location data you already gathered.
My brain just came up with a scenario whereby a bunch of NASA scientists sit around a boardroom table and plan such an experiment. It'd go something like:
week 1: build/program receivers on earth week 2: listen for signal week 3: build probe week 4: send probe back in time to week 2, and record precisely what time and date you did it so... you can analyse signal from week 2 and figure out how far earth moved!
Dell's All Terrain Grade models are MILSPECed against harsh environments. Personally I've never used the ATG stuff, but I do own a non-hardened Dell D630 as my main machine and couldn't be happier. It's light, portable, powerful and runs Ubuntu fine.
I would imagine the ATGs would be slightly heavier, but if I were looking for a tough laptop with all the trimmings (including DVD burner), I'd check out the D630ATG.
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ROFL! That's the funniest comment I've seen this week.
Cheers!
Indeed - having taken one I'm of the firm opinion that it had no value whatsoever for exactly that reason.
The questions were actually more like statements with the options: Strongly Disagree, Disagree, Agree and Strongly Agree.
Absolutely useless if you ask me.
"you just killed a man. Why?"
So, why did you kill him? ;)
I was offered a job at my current work *after* I passed the interview, but before I could sign the paperwork.
I found it a bit strange that I sat in an interview, impressed them enough to get hired, and then they - what? wanted to know if I was an axe murderer?
The one question that stuck in my mind was "Have you ever felt so angry you thought you couldn't control your violent actions?". Seriously WTF? I would have thought that was covered in "No I don't have any violent crime convictions..."
I like it where I work though. Great company - but that psych test was amongst the wierdest set of questions I've ever been asked.
It's more likely she'd just give him a car.
Oprah and this guy are in the pre-trial conference...
Oprah: "Look under your seat!"
So would the solution then be to have a database replicate live to another machine, then take your daily dumps off the replicated machine, so that the forward facing database is unaffected?
Where I used to work we had a replicated database on a different box for most of the live systems for reporting. The reporting would kick off at a regular time and grind the replicated machine almost to a halt, but the live system would experience no slowdown.
Ah! Thanks for the clarification.
Backing up a live database can be a bit tricky.
Hmmm. "pg_dump -D" usually does the trick for me.
Or am I missing something?
Excuse my ignorance, but what happened in 1926, 1939 or 1942? I always thought Australia became a nation in its own right in 1901 with federation and the passing of the british Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act. Indeed, I remember a WWI documentary about Australia's war effort and the fiancial and socio-economic hardship it had on "such a young nation, barely 13 years old".
My daughter was born 7 weeks premature and spent 2 weeks in an incubator. As a side effect of spending so much time with her in the neonatal unit, I got to know what every switch and readout on her machine did. It was a very impressive piece of equipment designed to do one thing very well - keep a helpless human alive.
I would hazard a guess as to say that the insides of the machine are built with all sorts of hardware redundancy checks inside to ensure that its critical mission is carried out no matter what (I'm pretty sure it even had a UPS); which probably contributes somewhat to the high cost. That and the liability aspect inherent with any machine that keeps humans alive (from auto-respirators to space-suits).
I am fortunate enough to live in a country with a high standard of health care, and my daughter's stay in her expensive machine saved her life; however if a lower cost alternative that does the core functions of the expensive machines can be built for countries that are not as well off as we are, I am all for that. Expensive machines are also expensive to maintain, and if the TCO can be lowered to the point that poorer countries can operate them comfortably, that's got to be a benefit. It just goes to show that ingenuity knows no bounds.
Dude, did you just compare yourself to Louis Pasteur and Sir Isaac Newton? :O
So by Sony's logic, if I fire up Microsoft Word and write a document, then Microsoft owns the copyright to my creation?
I fail to see the difference between this game and a word processor.
Also for the poor smuck on the toilet.
He must have been shitting himself...
Don't tell them it's "kinda like a cross between Daikatana and Duke Nukem Forever"
I recently read through some policy documents at my work. The introduction had a paragraph about how "...notoriously expensive documentation is..." to write and maintain.
The next sentence was all about making said documentation leaner and thus less expensive. How is that done? By aligning with the principles of [some phrase written in latin] (!), and through "...the principles of ontological parsimony (!)". No Shit!
I had to use a dictionary to work out what the hell it was saying.
Talk about the very definition of irony...
I think that it's possible that we will (probably during our inevitable colonisation of Mars at some point) find evidence of bacteria on Mars that wasn't brought there from Earth. Especially if the theory of Panspermia is correct, and since Earth and Mars have been known to swap rocks every now and again, it's not a giant leap to imagine that an asteroid bringing life to Earth may have also brought life to Mars. Now, if Mars had standing pools of water, rudimentary bacteria could have existed at some point.
Of course given Mars' extreme cold, crap atmosphere and almost zero shielding against cosmic radiation, any bacteria that did land there may have died out instantly - I guess we'll either find evidence of really hardy bacteria or no evidence at all - but in that case could we really be certain that Mars *never* had life?
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"If you bring your work computer home with any regularity, chances are good that you've done the Laptop Drive of Shame. (Oh, c'mon, admit it.) It's happening more than ever ... and costing more than ever, too, what with the price of gas and all."
I'll spoil it for you- they mean leaving your laptop at home. Yay monday news cycle.
I don't know if it would be as simplistic as 1) get email 2) check for spam 3) if spam then blacklist host. If I was creating a spam firewall for use by large corps I'd employ some sort of hit counter and other funky mathematics to determine heuristically if the connecting server is an open relay; or if it is a closed relay relaying one or two dodgy messages.
How do larger organizations deal with the spam issue?
I used to work for a mining company you've heard of. Our department had responsibility for managing the email vendor, who used Spamshark to filter spam coming into the organisation. From my limited knowledge of the setup, Spamshark does basic blacklisting etc. but also does selective blacklisting on specific IPs when an email is flagged by a user. So Alice flags a message as spam, Spamshark figures out the message id, grabs the IP address it came from (it knows because it previously handled the email), and then blacklists that IP for a certain amount of time. Now this internal blacklist is then shared to all the other customers who use Spamshark, so they are now protected too; resulting in a 5 nines hit rate on spam.
Like I said we just handled vendor relations, and the above description might not be totally accurate, but this is what I gathered when we dealt with them. I also remember getting about 10 complaints of spam a month for an organisation with 10's of thousands of email addresses - so it was very effective.
I think the trick is that TV is guaged at a level of "Here I am with the remote... is there *something* worth staying here for, or is *all* of it so bad I have to shut it off?"
I have to agree. To me, sitting in front of the TV for hours on end is exactly the same as throwing some random TV-programmer schmuck the keys to my brain and saying "Here, you drive for a while". No thanks.
A couple of years ago I decided to selectively watch only the TV programs that *really* engage my attention. Shows that I feel like I've had an experience after watching them. If a show doesn't give me that feeling I don't watch it again. Period. So now I have a few favourites (House and Lost to specify the entire list); but on the other hand, if I don't catch them for a few weeks because I'm busy with something else, no biggy. There are much better things to occupy my time with.
The pessimist in me says that once people start having convictions and desires to do something again, we'll have a lot more war.
Perhaps if war was precipitated by populations having convictions and desires that ran contrary to other (usually neighboring) countries.
More often than not however, modern wars have been carefully and deliberately started as a strategic tool by governments independent of their citizens' wishes, using willing arms dealers that stand to make a lot of money out of the conflict (and provide fat kickbacks to the government in the process).
Diplomacy by other means and all that.
Now does anyone know how I can capture HD footage from my camcorder over a supported firewire input in Linux?
Kino does SD great over firewire (my camcorder can downsample), but borks out (gray output) when I try it with HD. I've googled and sourceforged but cannot seem to find anything that will do it. I know my PC is fast enough because I used to do it with Premiere Elements.
"...not what a corporation or media outlet decides we should want."
I never thought one could get pithy one-liners from a video game, but I think the GTA writers had the nail hit on the head with one of the radio station's advertisements (I think it was from Liberty City):
"We tell you what's good! Then play it 'till you like it!"
I think that sums up the Label's business methods quite succinctly.
I suppose the easy way to find out would be to send a series of transponders out into the past, and then analyse the location data you already gathered.
My brain just came up with a scenario whereby a bunch of NASA scientists sit around a boardroom table and plan such an experiment. It'd go something like:
week 1: build/program receivers on earth
week 2: listen for signal
week 3: build probe
week 4: send probe back in time to week 2, and record precisely what time and date you did it so... you can analyse signal from week 2 and figure out how far earth moved!
And then my brain 'sploded.
Dell's All Terrain Grade models are MILSPECed against harsh environments. Personally I've never used the ATG stuff, but I do own a non-hardened Dell D630 as my main machine and couldn't be happier. It's light, portable, powerful and runs Ubuntu fine.
I would imagine the ATGs would be slightly heavier, but if I were looking for a tough laptop with all the trimmings (including DVD burner), I'd check out the D630ATG.