Non union employees get the benefits of the unions collective bargaining, but don't have to pay dues.
The only thing taken out of my check other than taxes and such, is my $5 a week donation to United Way, and I decided to donate that.
Maybe your union stewards are a bit more aggressive than ours, or maybe it works differently in different states, but so far I haven't been pressured into joining the union at all.
In all honesty, getting insurance for part time work is great, and the 4 hour workout every night has helped me lose 30 pounds. It isn't a bad job at all in my opinion.
It was a good idea to cancel it, at least now, microsoft can watch and learn, and claim it was far more awesome than it would have been......
Now, there is no way the ipad is better than courier because no one can compare the two....
In another 6 months, if microsoft makes their new tablet, and it ends up being courier based, and fixes a bunch of possible problems with the courier, THEN microsoft has a chance at taking a decent chunk of the new tablet market.
If it is going to be an ipad killer, it had better actually be up to the task.
How many ipod killers were there? And yet, it was the iphone/ipod touch that killed the traditional ipod.
If someone else would have done something similar, it could have succeeded, and REALLY been the ipod killer. The fact that no one did, and no one has, and no one really has a chance in hell at doing so at this point unless they come up with something even better, continues to give apple the market.
And yeah, I had an ipod shuffle, and a 30gb ipod, now I've got an iphone 3G and an ipad. The shuffle gets no use, and the 30gig ipod gets very very little use these days.
If you had filesharing enabled, you can try connecting using AFP and the IP address, or if you had remote access/ssh enabled, you could try that. The problem in both of these cases is that in all likelyhood your laptop is going to be connecting to something via DHCP and will be behind NAT.
Sure, even if communication is impossible.... it could create a scientific drive to invent some method to communicate.
I don't think the SETI people expect to find proof of intelligent life "any day now"
I think that a snowballs chance in hell is good enough. 50 years from now.... the event horison of places that have seen our signals, AND had time to respond, will have increased by 25 light years.
Yes, that doesn't get you a whole lot farther, but at least it opens up more doors.
The problem is... if we don't listen now, listening later might not do us any good......
If mars had oil...... not only would it pretty much prove the existance of previous life on mars.... but possibly different life.....
Plants on earth take in CO2 and release O2.......
the atmosphere of mars is like 80+% CO2 if I remember right..... I'd think if the atmosphere didn't escape into space.... that it would make mars much easier to teraform....(assuming water, or ability to crack hydrogen from the ground, and combine with C02). use the greenhouse gas to heat up the planet, and turn it into a giant greenhouse of ferns, beans, prairie...... anything to kick up the O2 levels and heat the place up, get some more nutrients available...... even if it took 300 years to get mars to the point where you could farm plants for food outside of domes and such...... it would give us hope.
"I think you are wrong, it's really not an "investment" of money at all, as there is no chance of return on investment."
I think that society could make a return on that investment... because we would again be in a cold war. But instead of it being "US vs USSR" it'd be "Earth vs Aliens"
Sure, it wouldn't have to come down to war, or invasion or anything.... but you can bet your butt it'd get inventors, scientists, and engineers working overtime coming up with new ideas and new ways of doing things.
So even if we don't get fusion out of it, at least we might get another TANG.....
while the rewards wouldn't be monetary, they would be cultural, and societal rewards.....
Or, again I could be wrong and people would panic, join cults and drink some crazy kool-aid
I never understood why it was so hard to give funding to a program that could make the most important discovery yet.... (except for oil on mars... that'd be the only thing that'd get us off this rock faster...)
At least they got the 24 hours of time to point Arecibo where they wanted before... now maybe they'll get more time, more radio telescope data to send out as workunits.
The whole program seemed to be a great use of national money to me when I first learned about SETI, and its still a good place to invest money I think.
It was a Toyota Supra Twin Turbo...... any import junkie knows that......
But, yes, you do have it right... High RPM vs more Torque. The only problem here is that the Supra has crazy torque too.... 3L engine.... turbocharged... if we assume they turbo'd it with some decent boost, say, 14 pounds of boost.. then that 3L engine has 6L of air in it... meaning you can use more fuel... and so on.... THAT creates the torque.
A better P4 type car/engine would be the honda S2000 roadster.... 9000 RPM redline, 2 liter displacement, stock it puts out 240 horse....
now, if we say the AXP is a supercharged 3.8L v6 from a new grand prix SSE....... (puts out about 230 hp... with the supercharger....)
the V6 is a torquey engine, the S2000's F20 is a very revy engine..... Overall, I'd give the win to the S2000 easily, because of its wider powerband you could gear for, as well as the extra 10 hp. Its also a higher technology engine... On the other hand, the grand prix SSE just plain has more displacement.. with the supercharger, even more air.....
Now, if we look at F1 engines..... 16000 RPM.... sometimes 18000.... VERY VERY revy..... although they're meant to stay above 4k RPM just about all the time (else they cool, pistons get smaller, and they start not running well.... this happens even durring a long fuel stop sometimes)
And there WILL BE much rejoicing if Mot can pull it off. If Mot botches this one.... well, then they suck.
Assuming Mot won't botch this.... then Apple needs to not botch the memory controller.
I'm hoping for 4 channel, 64 bits per channel DDR, running at 133mhz (PC2100 spec DIMM's). Possibly put 4 DIMM slots per channel on the high end. Allow users to install ram in singles.... but note that it wont be as fast as installing in pairs... possibly have all configs ship with at least 2x128mb DIMMs.... (Heck, on the high end config, they should ship 4x256)
Hopefully my dual 533 will become Hideously obsolete this winter.....
It wouldn't be a good idea to spread it yourself... but if you limit the benificial worm to only spreading to systems that try to attack it.... maybe have it NOT patch the system... but instead open a window upon startup saying "Your system has the code red worm, it sent an attack to a system with this anti-code red progam. Click "I don't give a damn" to leave the code red virus on your computer, or click "Protect me" to remove the virus and install the patch.
THEN people would be fixing their own system..... since it would patch their system after removing the virus, they'd not only be safe, but then if they were attacked, the attacker would see the pop-up window... (in windows, like an error message)
YES... I agree just making a new virus that patches the old one wouldn't be a good thing, but IF the new virus did it in such a manner so that users would have an option... I can picture so many people that bought computers for an office, or even for home with windows 2000 and may not even know they have IIS running, let along know how to remove the virus...
also, if the beneficial virus maybe deleted itself after say, 4 days with no code red attacks... so if no attacks come for 4 days, it deletes itself... in this manner the net would slowly disinfect itself and then the beneficial virus would delete itself.
Now if only someone will make a virus that requires intervention... but then spreads a worm that removes code red 1&2 and then patches the machine... and then sends itself to any machine that tries to attack it.
Way off topic, but may be of intrest to those of you who live in/near Iowa. In iowa, we have this little known "right"... the right to speed. If the speed limit is 65, you can go 75 without much worry. Why you ask? Because if the cop writes you up at 75 in a 65 (or 65 in a 55) or any 10 over the limit or less... (8 over, 6 over...) its a NON-MOVING violation. This means its like a seat belt fine, or a parking ticket. 11 over is bad news though... but cops rarely write an 11 over. Why? because they know they'll get a call from the state/county/city and will have to talk to a judge when you dispute it. Always dispute anything 10+ or over, you wont regret it. Just another reason why Iowa rocks, even if you're trying to fly through at the speed of light. (besides the ICN.... my ethernet Inet access is great too...) Oh, for a 10 over the limit, your ticket will most likely be $40... if you get stopped at all. Also, US 30 is a great road if you want a more scenic travel through Iowa. Imagine what a Beowulf cluster of Iowa's would do. Heck, we'd have a president that could think and a government that wouldn't suck! I also agree with the click agreement idea... if only we could make it work for MP3's as well....
The creaters of the hyperlink committed the same crime! Now the public can view copyrighted web pages.... this means anyone with a web site can sue anyone with a browser!::chuckle:: If this isn't a dumb law, I don't know what is... oh wait, yes I do.... encryption export limits.
I agree. Raid the living daylights out of MS rather than announce the breakup. This way you take all of their hard drives and so on... and search them for secret corporate memo's that probably say something like "After we're broken up, the secret API will be _____ and it wont be secret anymore, we just wont comment the code and we'll make it incredibly difficult to understand. To facilitate the software half of the company, there will be a commented and documented version at this FTP site: FTP://blahblahblah" I'd be willing to eat a windows CD with my dinner if they aren't doing something underhanded like that. To let them get away with it would be worse than not breaking up the company in the first place. The problem is, will the proposed breakup do as much good as could be done? I don't think so. I think we need 5 companies. ServerOS Microsoft ConsumerOS Microsoft DesktopSoftware Microsoft Internet/Network Microsoft (MSN, hotmail and other network products as well as Internet Exploiter) Hardware Microsoft (keyboards, joysticks, mice, USB products.... maybe they could take a good chunk of MS's money with em and move into the printer market and desktop as well, heck, maybe even mobo chipsets? Maybe then we'd get better printer drivers... then again, maybe not.) Microsoft's cash reserve would be split more or less, with hardware getting maybe a double share to allow it to become more competitive. The only problem I see with this: companies buying "All Microsoft systems" and service/support groups supporting all microsoft products but not others.... allowing MS certified IT monkeys to re-monopolize microsoft. I feel that if we break MS up in this method, competitors will be able to take on individual baby bills, just like AMD is challenging intel's processor market, and VIA challenging the chipset market. Anyway you look at it, more baby bills= more competition= fairer market= better prices and products. Besides, we'd get more baby bill's to make fun of.
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Non union employees get the benefits of the unions collective bargaining, but don't have to pay dues.
The only thing taken out of my check other than taxes and such, is my $5 a week donation to United Way, and I decided to donate that.
Maybe your union stewards are a bit more aggressive than ours, or maybe it works differently in different states, but so far I haven't been pressured into joining the union at all.
In all honesty, getting insurance for part time work is great, and the 4 hour workout every night has helped me lose 30 pounds. It isn't a bad job at all in my opinion.
It was a good idea to cancel it, at least now, microsoft can watch and learn, and claim it was far more awesome than it would have been......
Now, there is no way the ipad is better than courier because no one can compare the two....
In another 6 months, if microsoft makes their new tablet, and it ends up being courier based, and fixes a bunch of possible problems with the courier, THEN microsoft has a chance at taking a decent chunk of the new tablet market.
If it is going to be an ipad killer, it had better actually be up to the task.
How many ipod killers were there? And yet, it was the iphone/ipod touch that killed the traditional ipod.
If someone else would have done something similar, it could have succeeded, and REALLY been the ipod killer. The fact that no one did, and no one has, and no one really has a chance in hell at doing so at this point unless they come up with something even better, continues to give apple the market.
And yeah, I had an ipod shuffle, and a 30gb ipod, now I've got an iphone 3G and an ipad. The shuffle gets no use, and the 30gig ipod gets very very little use these days.
If you had filesharing enabled, you can try connecting using AFP and the IP address, or if you had remote access/ssh enabled, you could try that. The problem in both of these cases is that in all likelyhood your laptop is going to be connecting to something via DHCP and will be behind NAT.
Yeah, I love my X8DTH-6F.... its a beast. Pair of E5520's on it. Made a great upgrade from Q6600.
Now if only I had the SSD's and LSI cards to go with it...... LOL
Actually, I'd settle for OSX drivers for the LSI 2008 and the intel 82576... Oh well, maybe soon.
twin 1u with infiniband at that... (Possibly even the 40Gb/s version)
Good idea really, as the 1u Twin/2Utwin2 form factors will likely be around quite a while, and supermicro makes nice kit.
Unrelated:
For home use, set the bios on superquiet, and even the wife doesn't complain about the noise. (With SC743TQ-865B + X8DTH-6F)
Grid bugs and 32mb FX graphics in the eMac huh?
OK, so solar sails work....
but last i knew, there weren't any oceans in space....
we talkin bout some crazy spelljammer ships now?
No, I don't smoke crack.....
Sure, even if communication is impossible.... it could create a scientific drive to invent some method to communicate.
I don't think the SETI people expect to find proof of intelligent life "any day now"
I think that a snowballs chance in hell is good enough.
50 years from now.... the event horison of places that have seen our signals, AND had time to respond, will have increased by 25 light years.
Yes, that doesn't get you a whole lot farther, but at least it opens up more doors.
The problem is... if we don't listen now, listening later might not do us any good......
If I had the power, I'd mod you up to a +6.
If mars had oil...... not only would it pretty much prove the existance of previous life on mars.... but possibly different life.....
Plants on earth take in CO2 and release O2.......
the atmosphere of mars is like 80+% CO2 if I remember right..... I'd think if the atmosphere didn't escape into space.... that it would make mars much easier to teraform....(assuming water, or ability to crack hydrogen from the ground, and combine with C02). use the greenhouse gas to heat up the planet, and turn it into a giant greenhouse of ferns, beans, prairie...... anything to kick up the O2 levels and heat the place up, get some more nutrients available...... even if it took 300 years to get mars to the point where you could farm plants for food outside of domes and such...... it would give us hope.
"I think you are wrong, it's really not an "investment" of money at all, as there is no chance of return on investment."
I think that society could make a return on that investment... because we would again be in a cold war.
But instead of it being "US vs USSR" it'd be "Earth vs Aliens"
Sure, it wouldn't have to come down to war, or invasion or anything.... but you can bet your butt it'd get inventors, scientists, and engineers working overtime coming up with new ideas and new ways of doing things.
So even if we don't get fusion out of it, at least we might get another TANG.....
while the rewards wouldn't be monetary, they would be cultural, and societal rewards.....
Or, again I could be wrong and people would panic, join cults and drink some crazy kool-aid
I never understood why it was so hard to give funding to a program that could make the most important discovery yet.... (except for oil on mars... that'd be the only thing that'd get us off this rock faster...)
At least they got the 24 hours of time to point Arecibo where they wanted before... now maybe they'll get more time, more radio telescope data to send out as workunits.
The whole program seemed to be a great use of national money to me when I first learned about SETI, and its still a good place to invest money I think.
Of course, I could be wrong....
It was a Toyota Supra Twin Turbo...... any import junkie knows that......
But, yes, you do have it right... High RPM vs more Torque. The only problem here is that the Supra has crazy torque too.... 3L engine.... turbocharged... if we assume they turbo'd it with some decent boost, say, 14 pounds of boost.. then that 3L engine has 6L of air in it... meaning you can use more fuel... and so on.... THAT creates the torque.
A better P4 type car/engine would be the honda S2000 roadster.... 9000 RPM redline, 2 liter displacement, stock it puts out 240 horse....
now, if we say the AXP is a supercharged 3.8L v6 from a new grand prix SSE....... (puts out about 230 hp... with the supercharger....)
the V6 is a torquey engine, the S2000's F20 is a very revy engine..... Overall, I'd give the win to the S2000 easily, because of its wider powerband you could gear for, as well as the extra 10 hp. Its also a higher technology engine... On the other hand, the grand prix SSE just plain has more displacement.. with the supercharger, even more air.....
Now, if we look at F1 engines..... 16000 RPM.... sometimes 18000.... VERY VERY revy..... although they're meant to stay above 4k RPM just about all the time (else they cool, pistons get smaller, and they start not running well.... this happens even durring a long fuel stop sometimes)
And there WILL BE much rejoicing if Mot can pull it off. If Mot botches this one.... well, then they suck.
Assuming Mot won't botch this.... then Apple needs to not botch the memory controller.
I'm hoping for 4 channel, 64 bits per channel DDR, running at 133mhz (PC2100 spec DIMM's). Possibly put 4 DIMM slots per channel on the high end. Allow users to install ram in singles.... but note that it wont be as fast as installing in pairs... possibly have all configs ship with at least 2x128mb DIMMs.... (Heck, on the high end config, they should ship 4x256)
Hopefully my dual 533 will become Hideously obsolete this winter.....
It wouldn't be a good idea to spread it yourself... but if you limit the benificial worm to only spreading to systems that try to attack it.... maybe have it NOT patch the system... but instead open a window upon startup saying "Your system has the code red worm, it sent an attack to a system with this anti-code red progam. Click "I don't give a damn" to leave the code red virus on your computer, or click "Protect me" to remove the virus and install the patch.
THEN people would be fixing their own system..... since it would patch their system after removing the virus, they'd not only be safe, but then if they were attacked, the attacker would see the pop-up window... (in windows, like an error message)
YES... I agree just making a new virus that patches the old one wouldn't be a good thing, but IF the new virus did it in such a manner so that users would have an option... I can picture so many people that bought computers for an office, or even for home with windows 2000 and may not even know they have IIS running, let along know how to remove the virus...
also, if the beneficial virus maybe deleted itself after say, 4 days with no code red attacks... so if no attacks come for 4 days, it deletes itself... in this manner the net would slowly disinfect itself and then the beneficial virus would delete itself.
Now if only someone will make a virus that requires intervention... but then spreads a worm that removes code red 1&2 and then patches the machine... and then sends itself to any machine that tries to attack it.
Way off topic, but may be of intrest to those of you who live in/near Iowa. In iowa, we have this little known "right"... the right to speed. If the speed limit is 65, you can go 75 without much worry. Why you ask? Because if the cop writes you up at 75 in a 65 (or 65 in a 55) or any 10 over the limit or less... (8 over, 6 over...) its a NON-MOVING violation. This means its like a seat belt fine, or a parking ticket. 11 over is bad news though... but cops rarely write an 11 over. Why? because they know they'll get a call from the state/county/city and will have to talk to a judge when you dispute it. Always dispute anything 10+ or over, you wont regret it. Just another reason why Iowa rocks, even if you're trying to fly through at the speed of light. (besides the ICN.... my ethernet Inet access is great too...) Oh, for a 10 over the limit, your ticket will most likely be $40... if you get stopped at all. Also, US 30 is a great road if you want a more scenic travel through Iowa. Imagine what a Beowulf cluster of Iowa's would do. Heck, we'd have a president that could think and a government that wouldn't suck! I also agree with the click agreement idea... if only we could make it work for MP3's as well....
The creaters of the hyperlink committed the same crime! Now the public can view copyrighted web pages.... this means anyone with a web site can sue anyone with a browser! ::chuckle:: If this isn't a dumb law, I don't know what is... oh wait, yes I do.... encryption export limits.
I agree. Raid the living daylights out of MS rather than announce the breakup. This way you take all of their hard drives and so on... and search them for secret corporate memo's that probably say something like "After we're broken up, the secret API will be _____ and it wont be secret anymore, we just wont comment the code and we'll make it incredibly difficult to understand. To facilitate the software half of the company, there will be a commented and documented version at this FTP site: FTP://blahblahblah" I'd be willing to eat a windows CD with my dinner if they aren't doing something underhanded like that. To let them get away with it would be worse than not breaking up the company in the first place. The problem is, will the proposed breakup do as much good as could be done? I don't think so. I think we need 5 companies. ServerOS Microsoft ConsumerOS Microsoft DesktopSoftware Microsoft Internet/Network Microsoft (MSN, hotmail and other network products as well as Internet Exploiter) Hardware Microsoft (keyboards, joysticks, mice, USB products.... maybe they could take a good chunk of MS's money with em and move into the printer market and desktop as well, heck, maybe even mobo chipsets? Maybe then we'd get better printer drivers... then again, maybe not.) Microsoft's cash reserve would be split more or less, with hardware getting maybe a double share to allow it to become more competitive. The only problem I see with this: companies buying "All Microsoft systems" and service/support groups supporting all microsoft products but not others.... allowing MS certified IT monkeys to re-monopolize microsoft. I feel that if we break MS up in this method, competitors will be able to take on individual baby bills, just like AMD is challenging intel's processor market, and VIA challenging the chipset market. Anyway you look at it, more baby bills= more competition= fairer market= better prices and products. Besides, we'd get more baby bill's to make fun of.