Walmart forces people to work off the clock. It has been on the news and I have had employees confirm this to me. They set a 'goal' and if they don't reach it they are expected to punch out and return to thier job off the clock. Some efficiancy! Agressive accounting? The hours don't show up on the books but the work does. Wait, don't most open source coders donate their time? Opps! Sorry. Never mind.
If they suspect thier ISP's will shut them down, it can become a self full filing prophocy. Make it happen! Will their ISP's hit them with monetary penalties?
When I got the message, I tried to find a way to deactivate my account. I can't find one. I was leary about signing on to start with becasue you agree to 'endemnify(sp?)' them. (this thing needs a spell checker) I've heard that means if they get sued and lose, YOU pay.
It could be you will no longer be happy where you are depending on who they bring in as manager. My company has a strong track record of making each manager worse than the one they are replacing. If you force them to do a 'cold' search, no telling who might be running your life.
This is just something general from the parent of a 'prodigy'. When my son was three I remember standing with him in a convienience store. He was begging for a comic book and I was being the good parent and denying him his request for more juvinile reading material. Two by four time. He had learned to read by the age of three and I was quibbling about his choice of reading material. He got the comic book and I got a lesson. Let his interest by my guide. It is less a matter of helping someone like this than giving pointers and staying out of their way.
I was reading reviews and the Thunderbird seems to use twice as much power as a PIII. I don't know if this holds true for the P4 also. I was looking into doing a small Beowulf cluster and was thinking about waiting for the SMP Athelon boards. I have my doubts now.
Put up a warning and disk copy directions in the computer lab. These are college students. They need to learn to back up valuable data regardless of the media type. You offer server space and they don't use it? Again, they need to learn this. If they don't let them lose their data and flunk out of college because they are computer illiterate.
We can't have nuclear powered space crafts because the use these would violate treaties against 'weapon' platforms in space. That according to Carl Sagen in his "Cosmos" series. I would be seriouly surprised if 'civil' (draw your own conclusions to the use of that term;) use would also violate some treaty.
Since I only read things that have been moderated well up, I missed most of the controversy. The posts I read were rational responses and discounted the 'bug' infestation account for the most part.
As an amature telescope maker, I heard about this stuff at least a few years back. These things are limited in what they can do. The mirror lab in Arizona rotates blanks inside huge kilns to get them to rough shape. I don't remember the numbers but even with some of the best dampening systems available they have surface roughness on the blanks that mean they have to be finished conventionally. Astronomical mirrors are geneally measered in fractions of a wave length of 5500 angstrom light. 1/20 a wave is considered good for amatures. Tilt your mercury a little and you lose that accuracy. Side note: they generally run a film of oil over the mercury for saftey reasons.
I looked at the article but didn't see an acutal 'speed' listed. Since soundtravels faster in water is it breaking the speed of sound relative to water?
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Walmart forces people to work off the clock. It has been on the news and I have had employees confirm this to me. They set a 'goal' and if they don't reach it they are expected to punch out and return to thier job off the clock. Some efficiancy! Agressive accounting? The hours don't show up on the books but the work does. Wait, don't most open source coders donate their time? Opps! Sorry. Never mind.
We all have, or should have, our favoirite charity/cause. Is that so hard for a politician to understand? Aren't they there to serve the public good?
No explosives needed? Just use the kinetic energy from a rock? This is wild. Billions of dollars to throw a rock at someone. ;-)
If they suspect thier ISP's will shut them down, it can become a self full filing prophocy. Make it happen! Will their ISP's hit them with monetary penalties?
When I got the message, I tried to find a way to deactivate my account. I can't find one. I was leary about signing on to start with becasue you agree to 'endemnify(sp?)' them. (this thing needs a spell checker) I've heard that means if they get sued and lose, YOU pay.
It could be you will no longer be happy where you are depending on who they bring in as manager. My company has a strong track record of making each manager worse than the one they are replacing. If you force them to do a 'cold' search, no telling who might be running your life.
This is just something general from the parent of a 'prodigy'. When my son was three I remember standing with him in a convienience store. He was begging for a comic book and I was being the good parent and denying him his request for more juvinile reading material. Two by four time. He had learned to read by the age of three and I was quibbling about his choice of reading material. He got the comic book and I got a lesson. Let his interest by my guide. It is less a matter of helping someone like this than giving pointers and staying out of their way.
I was reading reviews and the Thunderbird seems to use twice as much power as a PIII. I don't know if this holds true for the P4 also. I was looking into doing a small Beowulf cluster and was thinking about waiting for the SMP Athelon boards. I have my doubts now.
Put up a warning and disk copy directions in the computer lab. These are college students. They need to learn to back up valuable data regardless of the media type. You offer server space and they don't use it? Again, they need to learn this. If they don't let them lose their data and flunk out of college because they are computer illiterate.
We can't have nuclear powered space crafts because the use these would violate treaties against 'weapon' platforms in space. That according to Carl Sagen in his "Cosmos" series. I would be seriouly surprised if 'civil' (draw your own conclusions to the use of that term ;) use would also violate some treaty.
Since I only read things that have been moderated well up, I missed most of the controversy. The posts I read were rational responses and discounted the 'bug' infestation account for the most part.
>What we need is rather cooperation.
You sound like one of those 'open source' weirdos. Which in some respects suffers from fragmentation.
As an amature telescope maker, I heard about this stuff at least a few years back. These things are limited in what they can do. The mirror lab in Arizona rotates blanks inside huge kilns to get them to rough shape. I don't remember the numbers but even with some of the best dampening systems available they have surface roughness on the blanks that mean they have to be finished conventionally. Astronomical mirrors are geneally measered in fractions of a wave length of 5500 angstrom light. 1/20 a wave is considered good for amatures. Tilt your mercury a little and you lose that accuracy. Side note: they generally run a film of oil over the mercury for saftey reasons.
I looked at the article but didn't see an acutal 'speed' listed. Since soundtravels faster in water is it breaking the speed of sound relative to water?