Al Gore went back in time 20,000 years (and you thought he only invented the Internet) to begin the process of Galactic Cooling so counteract the effects of Global Warming.
After I'd been at my new job for about a month, they offered me a 30% raise over my previous salary (about 24% over my new salary) to come back. I seriously considered it, but if I had stayed with that company, I would have had to move to Buffalo, which I didn't want to do, within a couple years to keep going up the ladder... mostly because that's where my brother lives.
Except it was a small company, so I was the technical person too.... so yes, the non-techs were talking to the tech directly... which only worked because I could break down technical issues for the non-technical people and I could understand them when they talked about thingies and whatchamacallits.
The position I was in now was taken down for a few months, renamed and reposted. Originally, they had a lot of applicants who just saw the title "Systems Administrator" and applied with expectations for $60k+ salaries... if they had read the actual description, it would have been obvious the position is for a much more junior level person with a salary to match.
One place I interviewed at wanted a one-man IT department (helpdesk, network, systems, programming, etc) for 80 users for $32k with mediocre benefits. The fact they wanted at least 8 years experience with Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 in 2010 should have been a hint...
After I gave notice at my last job, my boss complained it was hard to replace me - and not because of a lack of applicants. In a nutshell, he said that all of the applicants either had zero relevant experience or they had great experience and tech skills but had absolutely no interpersonal skills. I've found that the ability to talk to non-technical people is more important to most hiring managers simply because it's a lot easier to train someone to be technical than it is to train them to work with people.
Oh great, another guy with the same name as me. No wonder no one knew I was the one that published on Creating Cold Fusion Using Two Matchsticks, A Fake Mustache, and a Left-Handed Monkey Wrench.
If the Machines take over and use researchers as power cells with their unique 16-digit number to identify them, each researcher could take up 1.5 square feet and they would still run out of land area on Earth before than ran out of IDs.
Read the AC post a few posts above yours... he quotes the article where they explain how they removed articles not relevant to the US political parties.
To make a bad analogy, that's like saying that every time a cop draws a gun, it's the same as shooting someone just because the option exists and is trivial to implement. In reality, there's still a big difference between "can" and "does"
I think the business market will largely skip Windows 8 like it did Vista. It's more likely Windows 8 will be akin to a botched beta to try new features (IE: Metro) and see how the market reacts - similar to how Vista was. Then Windows 9 (like Windows 7) will take the good and strip out the bad from its predecessor and be the next Big Thing like Windows 7 was. It's not the first time MS has launched a product that will likely fail just so they can use the data to make the following product a blockbuster.
A similar argument has been used for red light cameras - quick way around it is to put announcements in the paper/radio/etc and put signs up. That way they can argue that they did their due diligence in informing the public, so it should be general public knowledge that your conversation could be recorded. Not sure how well it would stand up in court, but it'd be enough to at least give a fight.
I posted in more detail elsewhere in this article, but I installed a security camera system that could store some footage from before motion tripped the camera. Basically, once motion was in the frame (or a specific part of the frame), it writes everything from the buffer preceding the motion detection to storage and then appends the live video until X seconds/minutes after the motion stops. Unless there's a trigger, the preceding footage never gets written to storage. Technically, the buffer is a type of storage but it's very small, often overwritten, and only used if a trigger event is detected shortly thereafter.
To continue my analogy above, the camera system could be set to only look for motion in certain parts of the frame. One of the cameras monitored the warehouse, so we could tell it to only trigger recording if there was motion at the warehouse door and to not trigger it if there was motion elsewhere in the frame. The gunshot would be the equivalent of the door and conversations would be the rest of the frame - it passes through the buffer but is never added to the storage medium unless it's occurring at the same time as the trigger. The camera system was pretty cheap too, around $300/camera as I recall.
I implemented several IP cameras for a previous employer. They had a nifty little "record on motion" feature in which it wouldn't record (could still be monitored live) to the NAS unless there was motion detected. One of the big selling points around this feature was that it could actually record up to 30 seconds BEFORE the motion that triggered it so you could be sure you weren't missing anything before the camera was triggered. I believe it did it by keeping a couple minutes of video in a buffer on the camera. If an event triggered it, that buffer would be written to the NAS first and then it would continue appending the live video to the storage until the motion stopped plus X minutes. This system likely works in a similar fashion - it keeps a buffer that's continually overwritten until an event (IE: gunshot) triggers it to be saved to permanent media.
I think they mean the recording portion doesn't turn on unless the sensing portion detects a gunshot. A poorly worded sentence, to be sure. It's like your TV - even when your TV is "off", the small component that listens for your remote is still on.
As suggested in my previous post, I don't know how well their model works for people that only want a month here and there as opposed to continuous subscription service. I would only need Photoshop perhaps three months out of the year, in which case it would be almost 5 years before subscription became more expensive than outright purchasing a license.
Most "religious scientists" that I've heard about believe that either 1) God set it in motion and then let it go or 2) God set it in motion and then subtly influenced everything thereafter. Very few of them take the Bible at its most literal - God created everything 6 thousand years ago, etc.
Yes, I was referring to regular upgrades you might do anyway. For example, the Radeon HD 7850 (this year's mid-end model) and the 6950 (last year's mid-high end model) have comparable performance, but the 7850 draws about 2/3rds the power or less depending on benchmarks. The 6950 sells for less, but the power consumption may make the total cost of ownership similar to or greater than the 7850.
Let X be the cost of normal, non-gaming usage X + $30.83 = cost of gaming 20 hours a week in addition to (or in place of?) normal usage X - $66.66 = cost of non-gaming usage if you shut down the PC when not using it
But what is his time worth? If I value myself at the same rate my employer values me, then the startup time of my computer costs about 15 cents. I use the PC in the morning before work and in the evening after work and throughout the day on weekends, so that's 30 cents a weekday plus 15 cents for each weekend day or $1.80/wk. 52 weeks in a year, so it costs about $93 of my time waiting for it to boot up. If you have downtime in which you'd be doing nothing otherwise, then it may be worth it. If your schedule is usually tight, then it's cheaper to leave it on all the time.
What about switching out power hungry gaming cards for newer, more efficient cards? This year's mid-end model may have comparable performance to last year's mid-high end model but might draw half the power. Over time, the lower power consumption adds up, not to mention you can get by with a smaller power supply. Likewise, trading in your hard drives for a solid state drive (maybe using a green HDD for extra storage)? And for old timers, switching out CRTs for LCDs? Overall, I think it'd be easier for people to upgrade to more energy efficient components than it would be for them to change their PC usage habits. Lowering the sleep/HDD shutoff/monitor shutoff timers can make a big difference too without having to remember to shut down your PC every day or waiting for it to reboot. Not an option for everyone, but gamers usually aren't on a shoe-string budget or else they wouldn't be able to afford the PC and the games in the first place.
Misread the latter half of your post and didn't realize I was repeating what you said. But the subscription model is still a step in the right direction for these high-price software packages that some users don't need often.
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After I'd been at my new job for about a month, they offered me a 30% raise over my previous salary (about 24% over my new salary) to come back. I seriously considered it, but if I had stayed with that company, I would have had to move to Buffalo, which I didn't want to do, within a couple years to keep going up the ladder ... mostly because that's where my brother lives.
Except it was a small company, so I was the technical person too.... so yes, the non-techs were talking to the tech directly... which only worked because I could break down technical issues for the non-technical people and I could understand them when they talked about thingies and whatchamacallits.
The position I was in now was taken down for a few months, renamed and reposted. Originally, they had a lot of applicants who just saw the title "Systems Administrator" and applied with expectations for $60k+ salaries... if they had read the actual description, it would have been obvious the position is for a much more junior level person with a salary to match.
One place I interviewed at wanted a one-man IT department (helpdesk, network, systems, programming, etc) for 80 users for $32k with mediocre benefits. The fact they wanted at least 8 years experience with Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 in 2010 should have been a hint...
After I gave notice at my last job, my boss complained it was hard to replace me - and not because of a lack of applicants. In a nutshell, he said that all of the applicants either had zero relevant experience or they had great experience and tech skills but had absolutely no interpersonal skills. I've found that the ability to talk to non-technical people is more important to most hiring managers simply because it's a lot easier to train someone to be technical than it is to train them to work with people.
Oh great, another guy with the same name as me. No wonder no one knew I was the one that published on Creating Cold Fusion Using Two Matchsticks, A Fake Mustache, and a Left-Handed Monkey Wrench.
If the Machines take over and use researchers as power cells with their unique 16-digit number to identify them, each researcher could take up 1.5 square feet and they would still run out of land area on Earth before than ran out of IDs.
Read the AC post a few posts above yours... he quotes the article where they explain how they removed articles not relevant to the US political parties.
To make a bad analogy, that's like saying that every time a cop draws a gun, it's the same as shooting someone just because the option exists and is trivial to implement. In reality, there's still a big difference between "can" and "does"
I think the business market will largely skip Windows 8 like it did Vista. It's more likely Windows 8 will be akin to a botched beta to try new features (IE: Metro) and see how the market reacts - similar to how Vista was. Then Windows 9 (like Windows 7) will take the good and strip out the bad from its predecessor and be the next Big Thing like Windows 7 was. It's not the first time MS has launched a product that will likely fail just so they can use the data to make the following product a blockbuster.
A similar argument has been used for red light cameras - quick way around it is to put announcements in the paper/radio/etc and put signs up. That way they can argue that they did their due diligence in informing the public, so it should be general public knowledge that your conversation could be recorded. Not sure how well it would stand up in court, but it'd be enough to at least give a fight.
I posted in more detail elsewhere in this article, but I installed a security camera system that could store some footage from before motion tripped the camera. Basically, once motion was in the frame (or a specific part of the frame), it writes everything from the buffer preceding the motion detection to storage and then appends the live video until X seconds/minutes after the motion stops. Unless there's a trigger, the preceding footage never gets written to storage. Technically, the buffer is a type of storage but it's very small, often overwritten, and only used if a trigger event is detected shortly thereafter.
To continue my analogy above, the camera system could be set to only look for motion in certain parts of the frame. One of the cameras monitored the warehouse, so we could tell it to only trigger recording if there was motion at the warehouse door and to not trigger it if there was motion elsewhere in the frame. The gunshot would be the equivalent of the door and conversations would be the rest of the frame - it passes through the buffer but is never added to the storage medium unless it's occurring at the same time as the trigger. The camera system was pretty cheap too, around $300/camera as I recall.
I implemented several IP cameras for a previous employer. They had a nifty little "record on motion" feature in which it wouldn't record (could still be monitored live) to the NAS unless there was motion detected. One of the big selling points around this feature was that it could actually record up to 30 seconds BEFORE the motion that triggered it so you could be sure you weren't missing anything before the camera was triggered. I believe it did it by keeping a couple minutes of video in a buffer on the camera. If an event triggered it, that buffer would be written to the NAS first and then it would continue appending the live video to the storage until the motion stopped plus X minutes. This system likely works in a similar fashion - it keeps a buffer that's continually overwritten until an event (IE: gunshot) triggers it to be saved to permanent media.
It's the difference between "splitting hairs true" and "true for practical purposes"
I think they mean the recording portion doesn't turn on unless the sensing portion detects a gunshot. A poorly worded sentence, to be sure. It's like your TV - even when your TV is "off", the small component that listens for your remote is still on.
As suggested in my previous post, I don't know how well their model works for people that only want a month here and there as opposed to continuous subscription service. I would only need Photoshop perhaps three months out of the year, in which case it would be almost 5 years before subscription became more expensive than outright purchasing a license.
Most "religious scientists" that I've heard about believe that either 1) God set it in motion and then let it go or 2) God set it in motion and then subtly influenced everything thereafter. Very few of them take the Bible at its most literal - God created everything 6 thousand years ago, etc.
Agreed. I don't think Dr. Leakey's argument holds water.
So... Leakey is leaky?
Yes, I was referring to regular upgrades you might do anyway. For example, the Radeon HD 7850 (this year's mid-end model) and the 6950 (last year's mid-high end model) have comparable performance, but the 7850 draws about 2/3rds the power or less depending on benchmarks. The 6950 sells for less, but the power consumption may make the total cost of ownership similar to or greater than the 7850.
He's comparing apples and oranges.
Let X be the cost of normal, non-gaming usage
X + $30.83 = cost of gaming 20 hours a week in addition to (or in place of?) normal usage
X - $66.66 = cost of non-gaming usage if you shut down the PC when not using it
But what is his time worth? If I value myself at the same rate my employer values me, then the startup time of my computer costs about 15 cents. I use the PC in the morning before work and in the evening after work and throughout the day on weekends, so that's 30 cents a weekday plus 15 cents for each weekend day or $1.80/wk. 52 weeks in a year, so it costs about $93 of my time waiting for it to boot up. If you have downtime in which you'd be doing nothing otherwise, then it may be worth it. If your schedule is usually tight, then it's cheaper to leave it on all the time.
What about switching out power hungry gaming cards for newer, more efficient cards? This year's mid-end model may have comparable performance to last year's mid-high end model but might draw half the power. Over time, the lower power consumption adds up, not to mention you can get by with a smaller power supply. Likewise, trading in your hard drives for a solid state drive (maybe using a green HDD for extra storage)? And for old timers, switching out CRTs for LCDs? Overall, I think it'd be easier for people to upgrade to more energy efficient components than it would be for them to change their PC usage habits. Lowering the sleep/HDD shutoff/monitor shutoff timers can make a big difference too without having to remember to shut down your PC every day or waiting for it to reboot. Not an option for everyone, but gamers usually aren't on a shoe-string budget or else they wouldn't be able to afford the PC and the games in the first place.
Misread the latter half of your post and didn't realize I was repeating what you said. But the subscription model is still a step in the right direction for these high-price software packages that some users don't need often.