Definitely not an astrophysicist, but here's something interesting where neutrinos arriving first can provide early warning for light from supernovas...it's not because of FTL travel, but still interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova_Early_Warning_System
Until now, the obstacles to production seemed overwhelming. The crude oil is locked away in rocks that are buried miles underground in the Bakken Play, a field that stretches into Montana and Saskatchewan, Canada.
But times have changed. High oil prices and new technology make it worth the effort.
Still want to punish companies for "windfall profits?" I'm just sayin'. And yes, I'm aware of them bitching over tax breaks lately. Whole 'nother can of worms.
Good advice. The trouble with me comes by the fact that I started this job when I was 19, and it grew from a part-time HTML jockey into a different department and full-blown "engineer." So I have a lot of history here and some seem to always view me as the college sophomore I came in as. I do my best to remain open-minded to my superiors, who have obviously been at this longer than I have and usually have at least good intentions, and usually very good reasons for why a lot of things I want to do are blocked. The problem is just in balancing my ambition versus pissing people off outright by telling them everything could be a lot better.
The tried-and-true ways you speak of with good documentation and deployment are the types of things I'm trying to establish. I'm not a gunslinger with code; I started in a maintenance position and have moved into writing "v. 1"s, but recognize that I don't want to support a system for several more years on my own. Management will sometimes ask me to leave things like that out in lieu of cranking more widgets, which is one of the things I get so fired up about. Having never been in another company for my career, I'm not sure if this is normal and I should get used to it, or it's something I should legitimately be upset about.
it seems that you are an exception to the rule when it comes to Gen Y
Disagreed. Income disparity didn't disappear since your generation. I likewise am "Gen Y" and have been working since I was 14, starting out as phone support for my father's ISP, even. Now I'm a decently respected developer in my company, in charge of some pretty massive systems, namely our pretty heavily used intranet systems. Also, I student-loaned-and-Pell-granted my way through college, and had dozens of friends that did the same. So I disagree with the stereotype that everyone in my generation is somehow financially privileged out of the gate. It's just that in the circles that most/.ers come from, you aren't exposed to the less wealthy of the nation - if you're IT, chances are you're in a professional company and not working just above minimum wage to support yourself. You're more likely to run into a silver-spooned Gen Y, perhaps, but I know just as many who aren't that way in similar jobs. I come from a very small town in the rural south, since moved to the big city after college, and most of my friends stayed behind.
As for loyalty, my father (after the aforementioned ISP biz) has been laid off twice as a developer since I began my current job five years ago. Layoffs that hit him when I was young wrecked the family for years at a time financially. I count myself lucky that I have a stable job in a growing company for now. I am very loyal to my company for this, but I'm not a googly-eyed teenager with their first girlfriend, either; nothing lasts forever and I want to be prepared for that if it happens.
Sure, you have the assholes of our generation like any other. And I recognize in myself that I am more vocal about problems I see than the older generation and my managers up the chain want me to be. The only black mark on my recent review was that I am "telling them what to do"...which I understand causes friction and I am trying to learn the politics while still pushing the envelope. I am very passionate about my job, love what I do, and want to help my company break out of "the way it's always been done." Specifically things like better development practices, more accessible data for process automation, and streamlining so many manual processes that make what could be a turnaround counted in days, to turnarounds counted instead in weeks. But it's the way we've always done it, so I don't know yet how to change it without alienating myself from the people who would give me the go-ahead to do so.
Not so fast. An amazing book by a PhD (heh), The Millionaire Mind, goes into statistical analysis of various attributes of millionaires. Some interesting findings from here...
Average GPA: 2.92
Average SAT: 1190
And to back you up a little...90% are college graduates, 52% have advanced degrees
His analysis of all these things led him to believe that academic underachievers of a certain vein learn creative ways to get around things, or are out to prove people wrong regarding others saying they'll never amount to anything due to poor grades.
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Important difference: He said more work is needed to prove this...
Though it boggles my mind to think of the research he could be proposing...science with facts to back it up is automatically more trustworthy then religion with no testable hypotheses.
It's wrong to compare the cellular industry to a monopoly. Think of where this industry was 15 or even 10 years ago...how far phones have come, how reliable and widespread the connectivity is. This industry has exploded due to competition, and will continue to do so. The only way to change things, if you are that offended, is to vote with your wallet and choose a competitors' plan that more closely fits your needs. If all of the carriers are pissing everyone off with no alternatives...well, sounds like a perfect time to get into the cellular service business.
Yeah, that was the second part of why we blocked it at work; to wait until it got tested out. We haven't noticed any problems with web apps, but then again, we don't run a lot of apps that require client-side plugins/programs, either. Only thing I've seen is some features of SharePoint will crap it out.
Seriously, has the situation come to a place for Microsoft where a month with no patches for IE is actually news?
Yes. This thing had systems administrators running because of the forced upgrade and general wariness. Now that it's being proven that it won't wreak havoc on corporate systems, I figure some BOFHs will start to ponder a roll-out after blocking it. If it proves in the short-run to be more secure than IE6 (which isn't saying much, of course), they might jump on it.
As much as/. (justifiably) trashes Microsoft vulnerabilities, it's good to see the editors post a story that goes against the grain. Even if it should be read with a curiously raised eyebrow rather than cheers of jubilation.
Bad timing on their part. They're going to need to capture college kids, who are addicted to this type of thing...Facebook has incredible penetration rates on most decently-sized campuses, and they just came out with a very useful mobile interface to their profiles. Takes bar stalking to a whole new level. That might take the wind out of this service before it starts.
OT, but I'd love to see how MySpace's numbers have changed since Facebook became so prevalent, at least amongst the college demographic. I know you can have both, but why live in the ghetto when you can have something nicer?
Amen, amen, amen. The Federal government uses the power of money to get what they want. They did this with the National Minimum Drinking Age Act under Reagan back in the 80s - technically, states still have the power to set the drinking age to whatever they want, but if they didn't make it 21, that state gets a 10% decrease in federal highway money.
Offtopic, but if you find that you keep the Jeep and deal with the transmission (I'm assuming it's automatic), here's an item of interest: my father owned a '94 Chrysler Lebaron (Chrysler owns Jeep, as well), and went through three transmissions on the car before he realized that the way they designed things, the transmission fluid gets too hot and therefore destroys the transmission in just 50,000 miles or so. I'd look into that problem, seeing if your model shares the same problem. We fixed the problem with a cheap radiator for the transmission.
"The broken link has been fixed. Thanks for being our first users! "
Also, on my mac at least, users that mail.app pulls in from both Gmail AND Yahoo automatically adds them to my jabber list for gmail. It might be other services, too, but that's what I see so far. Eeeenteresting...
Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Vote with your dollars, people. I know the grandparent was a troll, but still...people just come off as idiots when they get enraged about some product that's still their choice to buy or not.
This is going to have to be looked into further. Completely unacceptable if Fox suddenly took into their wings all of the submitted content on MySpace. How does it work with uploaded content that already has rights? Musicians who put up songs that already have a record deal with the songs on it? I'm going to watch this one closely.
Holy shit. Was this in the TOS all along? I don't personally care; I post no works on the site. But for the small-time musicians...am I correct in saying this was really not a big deal before, since MySpace didn't have any means of distributing the works they "own", but now that they have a media outlet behind them, they can use the works however they want AND have a good way to distribute and sell them? Please tell me I'm wrong on this one.
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Definitely not an astrophysicist, but here's something interesting where neutrinos arriving first can provide early warning for light from supernovas...it's not because of FTL travel, but still interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova_Early_Warning_System
But the collision opened up a parallel universe where we DIDN'T die due to a black hole, so we're living in that one now.
Some sort of strange logging where it's saving all requested page URLs straight to a DB? That's about all I can muster.
Good advice. The trouble with me comes by the fact that I started this job when I was 19, and it grew from a part-time HTML jockey into a different department and full-blown "engineer." So I have a lot of history here and some seem to always view me as the college sophomore I came in as. I do my best to remain open-minded to my superiors, who have obviously been at this longer than I have and usually have at least good intentions, and usually very good reasons for why a lot of things I want to do are blocked. The problem is just in balancing my ambition versus pissing people off outright by telling them everything could be a lot better.
The tried-and-true ways you speak of with good documentation and deployment are the types of things I'm trying to establish. I'm not a gunslinger with code; I started in a maintenance position and have moved into writing "v. 1"s, but recognize that I don't want to support a system for several more years on my own. Management will sometimes ask me to leave things like that out in lieu of cranking more widgets, which is one of the things I get so fired up about. Having never been in another company for my career, I'm not sure if this is normal and I should get used to it, or it's something I should legitimately be upset about.
it seems that you are an exception to the rule when it comes to Gen Y
/.ers come from, you aren't exposed to the less wealthy of the nation - if you're IT, chances are you're in a professional company and not working just above minimum wage to support yourself. You're more likely to run into a silver-spooned Gen Y, perhaps, but I know just as many who aren't that way in similar jobs. I come from a very small town in the rural south, since moved to the big city after college, and most of my friends stayed behind.
Disagreed. Income disparity didn't disappear since your generation. I likewise am "Gen Y" and have been working since I was 14, starting out as phone support for my father's ISP, even. Now I'm a decently respected developer in my company, in charge of some pretty massive systems, namely our pretty heavily used intranet systems. Also, I student-loaned-and-Pell-granted my way through college, and had dozens of friends that did the same. So I disagree with the stereotype that everyone in my generation is somehow financially privileged out of the gate. It's just that in the circles that most
As for loyalty, my father (after the aforementioned ISP biz) has been laid off twice as a developer since I began my current job five years ago. Layoffs that hit him when I was young wrecked the family for years at a time financially. I count myself lucky that I have a stable job in a growing company for now. I am very loyal to my company for this, but I'm not a googly-eyed teenager with their first girlfriend, either; nothing lasts forever and I want to be prepared for that if it happens.
Sure, you have the assholes of our generation like any other. And I recognize in myself that I am more vocal about problems I see than the older generation and my managers up the chain want me to be. The only black mark on my recent review was that I am "telling them what to do"...which I understand causes friction and I am trying to learn the politics while still pushing the envelope. I am very passionate about my job, love what I do, and want to help my company break out of "the way it's always been done." Specifically things like better development practices, more accessible data for process automation, and streamlining so many manual processes that make what could be a turnaround counted in days, to turnarounds counted instead in weeks. But it's the way we've always done it, so I don't know yet how to change it without alienating myself from the people who would give me the go-ahead to do so.
His analysis of all these things led him to believe that academic underachievers of a certain vein learn creative ways to get around things, or are out to prove people wrong regarding others saying they'll never amount to anything due to poor grades.
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Important difference: He said more work is needed to prove this...
Though it boggles my mind to think of the research he could be proposing...science with facts to back it up is automatically more trustworthy then religion with no testable hypotheses.
You shouldn't have to pay $100 a month network fees for a single cell phone just for decent service, and unfortunately that's where we stand today.
But we do pay that, so they will charge it.
It's wrong to compare the cellular industry to a monopoly. Think of where this industry was 15 or even 10 years ago...how far phones have come, how reliable and widespread the connectivity is. This industry has exploded due to competition, and will continue to do so. The only way to change things, if you are that offended, is to vote with your wallet and choose a competitors' plan that more closely fits your needs. If all of the carriers are pissing everyone off with no alternatives...well, sounds like a perfect time to get into the cellular service business.
Yeah, that was the second part of why we blocked it at work; to wait until it got tested out. We haven't noticed any problems with web apps, but then again, we don't run a lot of apps that require client-side plugins/programs, either. Only thing I've seen is some features of SharePoint will crap it out.
Seriously, has the situation come to a place for Microsoft where a month with no patches for IE is actually news?
/. (justifiably) trashes Microsoft vulnerabilities, it's good to see the editors post a story that goes against the grain. Even if it should be read with a curiously raised eyebrow rather than cheers of jubilation.
Yes. This thing had systems administrators running because of the forced upgrade and general wariness. Now that it's being proven that it won't wreak havoc on corporate systems, I figure some BOFHs will start to ponder a roll-out after blocking it. If it proves in the short-run to be more secure than IE6 (which isn't saying much, of course), they might jump on it.
As much as
"...single disc about 1 cm larger in diameter than a CD will buy you 300GB..."
I misread it too the first time around.
Bad timing on their part. They're going to need to capture college kids, who are addicted to this type of thing...Facebook has incredible penetration rates on most decently-sized campuses, and they just came out with a very useful mobile interface to their profiles. Takes bar stalking to a whole new level. That might take the wind out of this service before it starts.
OT, but I'd love to see how MySpace's numbers have changed since Facebook became so prevalent, at least amongst the college demographic. I know you can have both, but why live in the ghetto when you can have something nicer?
Amen, amen, amen. The Federal government uses the power of money to get what they want. They did this with the National Minimum Drinking Age Act under Reagan back in the 80s - technically, states still have the power to set the drinking age to whatever they want, but if they didn't make it 21, that state gets a 10% decrease in federal highway money.
n king_Age_Act
Read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Dri
This link got posted to both /. and digg within 30 minutes of each other. That server has no chance in hell of surviving.
Yes, he keeps repairing the car himself. Laid off from Worldcom before they tanked and hasn't found an IT job since.
Offtopic, but if you find that you keep the Jeep and deal with the transmission (I'm assuming it's automatic), here's an item of interest: my father owned a '94 Chrysler Lebaron (Chrysler owns Jeep, as well), and went through three transmissions on the car before he realized that the way they designed things, the transmission fluid gets too hot and therefore destroys the transmission in just 50,000 miles or so. I'd look into that problem, seeing if your model shares the same problem. We fixed the problem with a cheap radiator for the transmission.
Followup: I just got a mac this week so this could be old news for people ;) Still learning this thing.
"The broken link has been fixed. Thanks for being our first users! "
Also, on my mac at least, users that mail.app pulls in from both Gmail AND Yahoo automatically adds them to my jabber list for gmail. It might be other services, too, but that's what I see so far. Eeeenteresting...
Myself and a buddy of mine just got kicked off. Think they found out and shut it down? Any others having the problem?
Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Vote with your dollars, people. I know the grandparent was a troll, but still...people just come off as idiots when they get enraged about some product that's still their choice to buy or not.
I'm being redundant, but still. Mad props.
This is going to have to be looked into further. Completely unacceptable if Fox suddenly took into their wings all of the submitted content on MySpace. How does it work with uploaded content that already has rights? Musicians who put up songs that already have a record deal with the songs on it? I'm going to watch this one closely.
OK, whew. You saved me an embarrassing rant on my blog. ;) For the first time, I can now say "mod me down" and mean it (regarding my previous post).
Holy shit. Was this in the TOS all along? I don't personally care; I post no works on the site. But for the small-time musicians...am I correct in saying this was really not a big deal before, since MySpace didn't have any means of distributing the works they "own", but now that they have a media outlet behind them, they can use the works however they want AND have a good way to distribute and sell them? Please tell me I'm wrong on this one.