I was consulting, and they couldn't be bothered to find me an office or cube. So they stuck me in a busy lab. In the main aisle. Close to the door. There wasn't room for me to sit while someone had to pass by, so every 3-4 minutes I had to stand up and let someone by. Lasted for 2 weeks before I decided the $80/hr wasn't worth it.
Another consulting job I had an incompetent micro manager. She couldn't understand what we were doing, couldn't even remember day to day what we were working on. Every 10-15 minutes she would pop into my office with a brain dead question (and it wasn't just me, it was everyone on the team). I finally convinced her to use email for these simple little questions. So what does she do? Pops into my office asking "did you get my email yet" just as I'm opening my mail app.
I actually lasted there for 8 months, loved the job but hated the boss.
My first thumb drive just died. Plugged it into the computer and it was detected as a removable storage device with 0 bytes available. No idea what happened to it, and no warning ahead of time.
In it's defense, it went through the washer/dryer twice. Sigh. But it lasted a few months after the last washing.
The replacement I got for it was DOA, returned to Fry's. It's replacement was stolen. It's replacement is in my pocket now, got it last October.
So I've had 4 thumb drives. 1 died. 1 DOA. 1 stolen. 1 still working.
The main problems with Bluetooth in my mind are complexity and cost.
In a cell phone, the main problem with BT is battery life. Simplified, a cellphone spends most of it's life in deep sleep mode, with all radios turned off. Every 1.28 second (google Slot Cycle Index) the phone wakes up and looks for a page. If it doesn't get one it goes back to sleep. The entire process takes 10-20 ms. When the radios are on the phone draws about 80 ma from the battery, when sleeping 1-5 ma (depending on the phone).
Bluetooth wants to look for a page much more often. Worse, the interval when BT wants to wake up, and when the phone wants to wake up, don't have much in common. The upshot is with BT it's a lot harder for phone makers to maintain their standby time.
Without reading TFA, I'm guessing Nokia's new standard syncs the 2 wakeup times.
Caveat. I know CDMA. I don't know GSM. I've worked on minimizing current draw during deep sleep on a handful of phones. My only experience with BT was figuring out how to disable it while I did my job on the CDMA side of things.
Why can't I have a mail filter option that says "don't notify me of new mail". I filter probably 80% of my mail and I can read it whenever. But if I get a message from a handful of people (like my boss), I want to look at it ASAP.
I mean, come on. It can't be that hard to have a rule that says "transfer to weekly reports, and don't tell me I have new mail". Is it?
Insurers offer earthquake insurance because the government forces them to. The state also subsidizes the coverage. Considering the bounty of excess cash we're rolling around in, one can only wonder where they will find the money to pay claims if a big one hits.
The earthquake insurance is very expensive, and very crappy. Unless you know there will be a major earthquake in a year or two, then it's not worth paying the insurance (my estimation, your mileage may vary).
As for the $500k on up houses, pshaw. You're looking at a $100k replacement cost. The rest is the land the house sits on. In my case, that land will still be there after the big one, it will just be covered in rubble. I'm gonna roll the dice, and if I lose I'll take my 100k low interest FEMA loan and rebuild, better and sronger, just like Lee Majors. Hell, I could build a $200k mansion on my property and come out way ahead of the game.
I listen to http://www.live365.com/ pretty much all the time now. Hundreds of stations, if you're a member then no ads, and I have no trouble finding a station to match my mood.
I can see some fun being had where the idea is you get points for dropping a tree on someone, meanwhile others are trying to drop a tree on you. Could be a wacky, fast paced game. Team up with someone to run a 2 person saw, or have chainsaw powerups. You'd have to avoid players using hatchets/chainsaws on each other, but it could be a fun game.
Wow, wonder if you could make a TFC map to do this?
Gotta agree about the don't lie part. My interviews are split into 3 parts: Making the candidate comfortable, finding out what they know, and getting feedback. A big part of part 1 is looking for something I've done and just shooting the shit over it. Now, if you say you're an expert in MIL-SPEC 1553, which I spent 4 years on, and I ask you what an RT is and you have no clue.... Guess what Charlie, you just blew it.
I'm amazed at the number of people I weed out just in the "relax the candidate" phase of the interview.
The dirt that surrounds that house works quite well. It's good dirt, and grows stuff I want, quite nicely. But, it's old dirt. In fact, it's as old as the planet. Should I upgrade it? Will new dirt somehow "add value" to my dirt-needs, even though my existing dirt fills those needs (and is more than I need) already?
Bad analagy. I upgrade my dirt twice a year, spring and fall. In the spring because I like nice big juicy tomatos in July. In the fall because my compost bin is full and I need a place for all the leaves from my tree.
That said, I have 2 machines running Win98 and my laptop has XP. Office98 does everything I need. The only things I keep up to date are my virus rules and firewall firmware.
Yeah? And what if they decide to go back 6-12 months and levy a fine for *each* violation? Think it won't happen? Then you ain't wondering why a red light camera ticket is $381, instead of the $20 it was 10 years ago.
I have a Tivo and I can honestly tell you, it's the programming. My first couple of years of Tivo let me catch up on old shows I hadn't seen in years, but how many times a year do I want to watch first season SG1, or TNG, or whatever.
The new season started last month and every damn one of the shows my wife and I like have gotten worse, except CSI. Not CSI Miami, which is shite, but the original. Boomtown had a great concept, they dumbed it down and killed it. District? Fucking stupid this year. Frasier? Hellifino, we gave up on it last year. Friends? Haven't seen that in 3-4 years.
The new shows? We watched a couple cold cases, no more. Handler? This week it better get better or it's dead. Nothing else caught our interest? Oh yeah, we latched onto 8 simple rules for dating my daughter a few months back (guess when). But I suspect that the new shows are going to give "suck city" a whole new level to sink to.
So now I watch Jeapordy and 24, my wife has her gardening shows, and together we watch West Wing, Survivor, and CSI. That's it for our TV watching.
Might the GNU project be better served if their leaders would stop worrying about whether it should be called GNU/Linux
GNU/Linux is such an ugly name. And RMS has had as much impact, if not more, on today's software then Linus. Why not something like liGnux? 1 silly letter, silent, and it gets the point across. Who doesn't want this? Linux or RMS?
That said, I'd be honored to buy RMS a beer (or Soy milk if he prefers), someday.
Why didn't I install the patch? Because, quite frankly, I don't want to spend a couple hours a week patching my machines. Not to mention the patches that just make things worse. It's a tool, not a way of life.
That said, none of my machines have been infucted (yet). Hopefully my Firewall is blocking the attempts.
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4) Often it takes longer to evaluate the 12 half-finished projects out there than it takes to develop your own.
5) As someone else has already said, often the documentation was written by monkies on valium.
That said, I tend to reuse my own code a lot. I've got a logger or two, some code timers, command line parsers, etc that I wrote 10 years ago and just modify here and there.
I can see using a wireless link to intall the virus/trojan, going away, then coming back in a week to download all the gathered stuff via the wireless link. Makes it a hell of a lot harder to trace the real culprit. Not saying the guy had Wifi, but it's making me want to enable WEP on my home system. I don't care if you surf the net on my link, but I don't want asshats storing pr0n on my machine.
I have to agree. My friends and I got back into model rockets in my mid-20s. We had money then, and got into contests to see who could make their rockets go the highest. I made this monster, 3 stage, each stage had 3 D engines. It was out of sight before the first stage gave out, and that first stage was the only part of the rocket we ever found.
We'd also do fun stuff like put M-80's in the nose cones of rockets we were done with (use a booster engine), shove a C engine into the neck of a beer bottle (hint: it's much more fun if you also tape a long stick to the bottle before igniting it), and gluing fins to a bare AA engine.
We also did "normal" stuff. I got pretty good at multistage rockets, and could make heli-rockets. These went up like a rocket, when the engine ejected the fins turned into wing-like dealies and the rocket twirled slowly to earth. My buddy actually made a rocket he could launch underwater. I tried to make a MIRV, but couldn't get the engines to fire reliably.
It all ended when they bulldozed our launch pad, it's covered with office buildings now. Sigh.
For all intents and purposes it's been illegal to shoot rockets around here for years. I belive it falls under "incindiary device in a populated area" or somesuch, there just ain't nowhere close to launch from anymore.
My son is a fireman, my daughter a paramedic. Both volunteered to work today because "we don't have families, and our co-workers want to spend time with theirs". Brought a tear to my eye.
Of course, I'm not stupid. They get paid time and a half for working holidays, and both need the money...
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I was consulting, and they couldn't be bothered to find me an office or cube. So they stuck me in a busy lab. In the main aisle. Close to the door. There wasn't room for me to sit while someone had to pass by, so every 3-4 minutes I had to stand up and let someone by. Lasted for 2 weeks before I decided the $80/hr wasn't worth it.
Another consulting job I had an incompetent micro manager. She couldn't understand what we were doing, couldn't even remember day to day what we were working on. Every 10-15 minutes she would pop into my office with a brain dead question (and it wasn't just me, it was everyone on the team). I finally convinced her to use email for these simple little questions. So what does she do? Pops into my office asking "did you get my email yet" just as I'm opening my mail app.
I actually lasted there for 8 months, loved the job but hated the boss.
My first thumb drive just died. Plugged it into the computer and it was detected as a removable storage device with 0 bytes available. No idea what happened to it, and no warning ahead of time.
In it's defense, it went through the washer/dryer twice. Sigh. But it lasted a few months after the last washing.
The replacement I got for it was DOA, returned to Fry's. It's replacement was stolen. It's replacement is in my pocket now, got it last October.
So I've had 4 thumb drives. 1 died. 1 DOA. 1 stolen. 1 still working.
In a cell phone, the main problem with BT is battery life. Simplified, a cellphone spends most of it's life in deep sleep mode, with all radios turned off. Every 1.28 second (google Slot Cycle Index) the phone wakes up and looks for a page. If it doesn't get one it goes back to sleep. The entire process takes 10-20 ms. When the radios are on the phone draws about 80 ma from the battery, when sleeping 1-5 ma (depending on the phone).
Bluetooth wants to look for a page much more often. Worse, the interval when BT wants to wake up, and when the phone wants to wake up, don't have much in common. The upshot is with BT it's a lot harder for phone makers to maintain their standby time.
Without reading TFA, I'm guessing Nokia's new standard syncs the 2 wakeup times.
Caveat. I know CDMA. I don't know GSM. I've worked on minimizing current draw during deep sleep on a handful of phones. My only experience with BT was figuring out how to disable it while I did my job on the CDMA side of things.
Why can't I have a mail filter option that says "don't notify me of new mail". I filter probably 80% of my mail and I can read it whenever. But if I get a message from a handful of people (like my boss), I want to look at it ASAP.
I mean, come on. It can't be that hard to have a rule that says "transfer to weekly reports, and don't tell me I have new mail". Is it?
Insurers offer earthquake insurance because the government forces them to. The state also subsidizes the coverage. Considering the bounty of excess cash we're rolling around in, one can only wonder where they will find the money to pay claims if a big one hits.
The earthquake insurance is very expensive, and very crappy. Unless you know there will be a major earthquake in a year or two, then it's not worth paying the insurance (my estimation, your mileage may vary).
As for the $500k on up houses, pshaw. You're looking at a $100k replacement cost. The rest is the land the house sits on. In my case, that land will still be there after the big one, it will just be covered in rubble. I'm gonna roll the dice, and if I lose I'll take my 100k low interest FEMA loan and rebuild, better and sronger, just like Lee Majors. Hell, I could build a $200k mansion on my property and come out way ahead of the game.
I listen to http://www.live365.com/ pretty much all the time now. Hundreds of stations, if you're a member then no ads, and I have no trouble finding a station to match my mood.
How much energy is that in burning Constitutions and Bills of Rights?
Had the author's name been Paris instead of Blaine then the title would have a completely different meaning....
From the old:
1. Hack machines
2. ???
3. Profit!
Now we know step 2 is "rent the CPU for $1 per hour". Dang, 50 machines, $1/hour, 24 hours/day, gives $1200/day just for sitting on your ass.
I can see some fun being had where the idea is you get points for dropping a tree on someone, meanwhile others are trying to drop a tree on you. Could be a wacky, fast paced game. Team up with someone to run a 2 person saw, or have chainsaw powerups. You'd have to avoid players using hatchets/chainsaws on each other, but it could be a fun game.
Wow, wonder if you could make a TFC map to do this?
Gotta agree about the don't lie part. My interviews are split into 3 parts: Making the candidate comfortable, finding out what they know, and getting feedback. A big part of part 1 is looking for something I've done and just shooting the shit over it. Now, if you say you're an expert in MIL-SPEC 1553, which I spent 4 years on, and I ask you what an RT is and you have no clue.... Guess what Charlie, you just blew it.
I'm amazed at the number of people I weed out just in the "relax the candidate" phase of the interview.
This is a perfect Fark photoshop topic. Someone pass it along.
My wife got a toilet seat. No, I didn't buy it. Yes, I installed it and yes, she likes it.
sigh, it ain't the same when you're kids are f'n adults as well....
Bad analagy. I upgrade my dirt twice a year, spring and fall. In the spring because I like nice big juicy tomatos in July. In the fall because my compost bin is full and I need a place for all the leaves from my tree.
That said, I have 2 machines running Win98 and my laptop has XP. Office98 does everything I need. The only things I keep up to date are my virus rules and firewall firmware.
Yeah? And what if they decide to go back 6-12 months and levy a fine for *each* violation? Think it won't happen? Then you ain't wondering why a red light camera ticket is $381, instead of the $20 it was 10 years ago.
I have a Tivo and I can honestly tell you, it's the programming. My first couple of years of Tivo let me catch up on old shows I hadn't seen in years, but how many times a year do I want to watch first season SG1, or TNG, or whatever.
:)
The new season started last month and every damn one of the shows my wife and I like have gotten worse, except CSI. Not CSI Miami, which is shite, but the original. Boomtown had a great concept, they dumbed it down and killed it. District? Fucking stupid this year. Frasier? Hellifino, we gave up on it last year. Friends? Haven't seen that in 3-4 years.
The new shows? We watched a couple cold cases, no more. Handler? This week it better get better or it's dead. Nothing else caught our interest? Oh yeah, we latched onto 8 simple rules for dating my daughter a few months back (guess when). But I suspect that the new shows are going to give "suck city" a whole new level to sink to.
So now I watch Jeapordy and 24, my wife has her gardening shows, and together we watch West Wing, Survivor, and CSI. That's it for our TV watching.
Thank god for the DVD player
Might the GNU project be better served if their leaders would stop worrying about whether it should be called GNU/Linux
GNU/Linux is such an ugly name. And RMS has had as much impact, if not more, on today's software then Linus. Why not something like liGnux? 1 silly letter, silent, and it gets the point across. Who doesn't want this? Linux or RMS?
That said, I'd be honored to buy RMS a beer (or Soy milk if he prefers), someday.
Why didn't I install the patch? Because, quite frankly, I don't want to spend a couple hours a week patching my machines. Not to mention the patches that just make things worse. It's a tool, not a way of life.
That said, none of my machines have been infucted (yet). Hopefully my Firewall is blocking the attempts.
Why not just add a new extractor to get methane from your buttstream?
4) Often it takes longer to evaluate the 12 half-finished projects out there than it takes to develop your own.
5) As someone else has already said, often the documentation was written by monkies on valium.
That said, I tend to reuse my own code a lot. I've got a logger or two, some code timers, command line parsers, etc that I wrote 10 years ago and just modify here and there.
I can see using a wireless link to intall the virus/trojan, going away, then coming back in a week to download all the gathered stuff via the wireless link. Makes it a hell of a lot harder to trace the real culprit. Not saying the guy had Wifi, but it's making me want to enable WEP on my home system. I don't care if you surf the net on my link, but I don't want asshats storing pr0n on my machine.
You didn't have time to work in college, the coursework was too tough.
The Apple ][ hadn't been invented yet, let alone the BBS.
Your final paper in Computer Hardware Design had a footnote referencing something called an IC.
CmdrTaco wasn't born when you graduated.
Sometimes I feel like the 1 was new fangled when I was in college, before everything was 0's.
I have to agree. My friends and I got back into model rockets in my mid-20s. We had money then, and got into contests to see who could make their rockets go the highest. I made this monster, 3 stage, each stage had 3 D engines. It was out of sight before the first stage gave out, and that first stage was the only part of the rocket we ever found.
We'd also do fun stuff like put M-80's in the nose cones of rockets we were done with (use a booster engine), shove a C engine into the neck of a beer bottle (hint: it's much more fun if you also tape a long stick to the bottle before igniting it), and gluing fins to a bare AA engine.
We also did "normal" stuff. I got pretty good at multistage rockets, and could make heli-rockets. These went up like a rocket, when the engine ejected the fins turned into wing-like dealies and the rocket twirled slowly to earth. My buddy actually made a rocket he could launch underwater. I tried to make a MIRV, but couldn't get the engines to fire reliably.
It all ended when they bulldozed our launch pad, it's covered with office buildings now. Sigh.
For all intents and purposes it's been illegal to shoot rockets around here for years. I belive it falls under "incindiary device in a populated area" or somesuch, there just ain't nowhere close to launch from anymore.
My son is a fireman, my daughter a paramedic. Both volunteered to work today because "we don't have families, and our co-workers want to spend time with theirs". Brought a tear to my eye.
Of course, I'm not stupid. They get paid time and a half for working holidays, and both need the money...