A quick look at the industry says that manufactured diamonds are within probably a decade or two of being honestly competative, and then another decade or two after that for them to be "accepted", or thought of by the masses as not being 'less than' natural diamonds.
If this takes off, it will likely help manufactured diamonds' cause, as their demand will be significantly higher (and manufactured diamonds' main problem, color, is irrelevant when being used for industry and not jewlery)
One of the highest paid group of programmers these days are old cobol programmers. Big companies (mainly in insurance and banking) don't have the same system turnover than most places. As the number of cobol programmers drop, their value increases.
Even medium sized companies have 'old' systems that only a rare few people know how to use properly, and will just continue to age (especially now with spending freezes and drops).
Though if they were smart (history perhaps hints otherwise... but hypothetically) they could do alot of good by going against RedHat's 'unification' of window managers which seems to be a generally unpopular move.
Sorry, no link, but supah cheap, and was written by a guy so they could play during lunch at work (go fig). Turn based, good, addictive. A mix between Scorched Earth and Starcraft.
My company also has the policy that while the employee to be fired is in their firing meeting, IT resets their accounts and takes their computers. They can request info off of their work machine, which is screened for company/competative data and then mailed to them later.
This is for everyone too, not just privlidged employees
No offense, but in California at least (and I'm told, quite many other places) motorcycles are not considered cars when it comes to road usage. Here at least motorcycles are lawfully allowed to lane-split, which usually comes in the form of the motorcyclist doing 65 between cars stuck on the freeway doing 10-15.
It's damn near impossible to see them coming, especially at day (since there's no 3rd headlight coming) and around curves (where SUVs block perception). I've seen far too many "close calls" just from a car trying to change lanes without being able to see the oncoming cyclist.
I mean depending on the software, just don't support it...
Say "Hey, we made it nice and portable as we can, and it *should* work on AIX,HP-UX, etc... but has not be verified." and tell your salespeople that if customers want to run on AIX, HP-UX, etc that the QA/dev team will need some time (and a box probably) to verify everything will work smoothly for them.
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Kinda like Harrison Ford and the "new" Indiana Jones movie? Or the Scooby Doo movie? Or the Star Wars prequels? Or...
Seems like alot of Movie Execs (read: tripe) have gone from rehashing old, moderately good films, into moderate films with different names and just went straight to remaking the same damned film, this time with nostalgia!
Oddly enough I've the exact opposite experience. PacBell couldn't show me their terms of service (actually the sales rep didn't even know what it was). And with the SBC buyout, they won't even offer DSL service as they say I'm too far away, despite the fact that I had their service and it worked fine.
Speakeasy was nice and upfront about their terms of service, and that they'd like to only do 384/128. I said that 1.5/384 worked fine for PacBell, and they put that in. Worked great since.
Which of course users won't do. If they were reasonable un-pushy users they wouldn't be stuck using exchange in the first place.
Furthermore there will be alot of issues anyways over a 56k line because of the contact list merging, which always seems to be very large, and thus always seems to be very slow. The calendars try to update the same way, and they too are usually fairly full for road users (salesguys).
Unfortunately there's no really good alternative (currently; there's a few open and non-open options, but they are imo, not better) to Exchange if you *NEED* shared calendaring integrated with email. Wether you actually *NEED* that is another question, and usually a moot one.
It's nice that this year, rather than the traditional "Thanksgiving" facade, the TV chans went straight to making it the Black Friday holiday, otherwise known as "Shameless Capitolism Day".
People use up a bit of spare cycles "because it's pretty" (and to keep their screens fresh), some people find numerical patterns rather than visual ones 'pretty'....
Actually this sort of thing has been tried in the housing industry for some time... The 'significant capital investment' actually has come in the past decade from.com boomers, and has led to a influx of 'design/build' companies. Basically construction companies with architects and interior decorators on staff who draw up house designs and build everything while working with the customer to make the house *they* want.
This only used to be done with/for the super-rich, but is now being done more and more because people are richer, and want alot of choice in their homes. In certain areas and cases it's cheaper because of less overhead and scheduling issues.
Though this also might be a benefit (especially in better markets). If the company doesn't hire on decent people they're not going to succeed. They're not going to get good people keyword searching. And you don't *really* want to get hired on just so you can go job hunting again in a few months do you?
In part this is because (in the US anyways) people are raised believing that you're sent to school to get the degree so you can get a good job so you can get the pretty and vapid girl so...
And it's just a farce. People that have succeeded, or seen someone else succeed without the degree will realise (generally) before people that've gone through the schooling and the job, and have the pretty and vapid girl, and are oblivious.
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Or you could just vote Libertarian...
(though try to pick an actual libertarian, not an anarchist trying to be official)
ironically similar to the American public school system these days...
A quick look at the industry says that manufactured diamonds are within probably a decade or two of being honestly competative, and then another decade or two after that for them to be "accepted", or thought of by the masses as not being 'less than' natural diamonds.
If this takes off, it will likely help manufactured diamonds' cause, as their demand will be significantly higher (and manufactured diamonds' main problem, color, is irrelevant when being used for industry and not jewlery)
This isn't always true...
One of the highest paid group of programmers these days are old cobol programmers. Big companies (mainly in insurance and banking) don't have the same system turnover than most places. As the number of cobol programmers drop, their value increases.
Even medium sized companies have 'old' systems that only a rare few people know how to use properly, and will just continue to age (especially now with spending freezes and drops).
Though if they were smart (history perhaps hints otherwise... but hypothetically) they could do alot of good by going against RedHat's 'unification' of window managers which seems to be a generally unpopular move.
Sorry, no link, but supah cheap, and was written by a guy so they could play during lunch at work (go fig). Turn based, good, addictive. A mix between Scorched Earth and Starcraft.
My company also has the policy that while the employee to be fired is in their firing meeting, IT resets their accounts and takes their computers. They can request info off of their work machine, which is screened for company/competative data and then mailed to them later.
This is for everyone too, not just privlidged employees
And you know what the great thing is? when you call the CPNI hotline to opt-out, the guy ends it by trying to sell you 'value added services'!
Don't worry, it still might...
No offense, but in California at least (and I'm told, quite many other places) motorcycles are not considered cars when it comes to road usage. Here at least motorcycles are lawfully allowed to lane-split, which usually comes in the form of the motorcyclist doing 65 between cars stuck on the freeway doing 10-15.
It's damn near impossible to see them coming, especially at day (since there's no 3rd headlight coming) and around curves (where SUVs block perception). I've seen far too many "close calls" just from a car trying to change lanes without being able to see the oncoming cyclist.
I mean depending on the software, just don't support it...
Say "Hey, we made it nice and portable as we can, and it *should* work on AIX,HP-UX, etc... but has not be verified." and tell your salespeople that if customers want to run on AIX, HP-UX, etc that the QA/dev team will need some time (and a box probably) to verify everything will work smoothly for them.
Kinda like Harrison Ford and the "new" Indiana Jones movie? Or the Scooby Doo movie? Or the Star Wars prequels? Or...
Seems like alot of Movie Execs (read: tripe) have gone from rehashing old, moderately good films, into moderate films with different names and just went straight to remaking the same damned film, this time with nostalgia!
You mean like this?
Oddly enough I've the exact opposite experience. PacBell couldn't show me their terms of service (actually the sales rep didn't even know what it was). And with the SBC buyout, they won't even offer DSL service as they say I'm too far away, despite the fact that I had their service and it worked fine.
Speakeasy was nice and upfront about their terms of service, and that they'd like to only do 384/128. I said that 1.5/384 worked fine for PacBell, and they put that in. Worked great since.
It's me! Just plop apache on my BSD machine that sits on my DSL (speakeasy rocks)
As for my company's colo? They don't suck, and it's a company... they could pay $1k/month and not miss it.
US-Canadian tensions? The US has a vast nuclear arsenal. Canada has a vast number of Quebecoi. Advantage: Canada
Which of course users won't do. If they were reasonable un-pushy users they wouldn't be stuck using exchange in the first place.
Furthermore there will be alot of issues anyways over a 56k line because of the contact list merging, which always seems to be very large, and thus always seems to be very slow. The calendars try to update the same way, and they too are usually fairly full for road users (salesguys).
Unfortunately there's no really good alternative (currently; there's a few open and non-open options, but they are imo, not better) to Exchange if you *NEED* shared calendaring integrated with email. Wether you actually *NEED* that is another question, and usually a moot one.
Reduce the gases that contribute to global warming, but contribute to noises that drive Fido mad...
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It's nice that this year, rather than the traditional "Thanksgiving" facade, the TV chans went straight to making it the Black Friday holiday, otherwise known as "Shameless Capitolism Day".
People use up a bit of spare cycles "because it's pretty" (and to keep their screens fresh), some people find numerical patterns rather than visual ones 'pretty'....
Or at least get it released on Spice rather than SciFi :P
Actually this sort of thing has been tried in the housing industry for some time... The 'significant capital investment' actually has come in the past decade from .com boomers, and has led to a influx of 'design/build' companies. Basically construction companies with architects and interior decorators on staff who draw up house designs and build everything while working with the customer to make the house *they* want.
This only used to be done with/for the super-rich, but is now being done more and more because people are richer, and want alot of choice in their homes. In certain areas and cases it's cheaper because of less overhead and scheduling issues.
Actually the US is blatantly sexist pig-like, and the commonly introduced stereotype is to get the pretty girl.
I'm just passing that along.
Though this also might be a benefit (especially in better markets). If the company doesn't hire on decent people they're not going to succeed. They're not going to get good people keyword searching. And you don't *really* want to get hired on just so you can go job hunting again in a few months do you?
In part this is because (in the US anyways) people are raised believing that you're sent to school to get the degree so you can get a good job so you can get the pretty and vapid girl so...
And it's just a farce. People that have succeeded, or seen someone else succeed without the degree will realise (generally) before people that've gone through the schooling and the job, and have the pretty and vapid girl, and are oblivious.