I wish I could find the article but a plant had one of their rollers go down on the line. Replacement parts would take 2 days, minimum, to arrive- so on a whim they had one fab'd from the rapid prototyper. They figured if it lasted 2 days it was worth it to get back up.
In fact, it ran longer than that, so they left it in place and kept the 'original' replacement part as a spare.
It's a rather funny read; sadly I can't recall where it was.
I tried to include that pun in the summary, but no matter how I tried I simply couldn't get it in there. It was hard enough finding a link to the chocolate printer;)
If you can project those three items, you have the best shot you will ever get at nailing the job.
I was asked in a whirl-wind style interview, literally "So I don't exactly understand why we are interviewing you. Your degree doesn't match the job openings". I then sincerely explained that, while my background is a dual degree in Chemistry/Chemical engineering, I've done imaging science the entire period of my employment. Threw in a few stories about projects I'd worked on, (You do have your "Problem, Action, Quantified Results" stories in your head, don't you???) and he accepted it.
Another asked about the layoffs and specifically why I was targetd. You *know* they are going to want to ask that question- be prepared to handle it. Don't whine. Don't Whine. DON"T WHINE! Remember that. Explain it as "We were told that seniority would count significantly during the layoff process. As I had just entered the group a year (or your case, 5 weeks) ago, when they pulled the project funding I was the newest, hence the least 'points' awarded during the deselection criteria"
Don't sound bitter- we all know you will be from the stories, and hearing 'laid off' doesn't have the stigma it once does. But dont' hide it in BS. If you present even a slightest bit, or get caught in a lie, you can kiss it goodbye. I've interviewed many a person and that is the one thing I listen for... I hear BS, you can use the resume to whipe it off the shoe.
I rotated thru 4 positions now in 4 years. This next raise will be interesting because the group that 'laid me off' writes my Performance Assessment. The new group gets said performance assessment. I don't know which one decides how much 'more' I get, but if it's similiar to what I got last year then those numbers will go down (when adjusted for inflation).
Frankly, take the high starting salary- there's no guarantee you'll get more at a later date.
comes in and sues him for downloading songs off of whatever P2P network is there, the FBI knocks on his door about certain threats that originated at his IP, Comcast cancells him for selling internet 'service' without a buisness contract, and finally the IRS audits his complete accounts for 'income recieved' without the appropriate W2's.
Now, yes, WAP for 7K is easy. Buy a bunch of US Robotics, 1 for every 2 floors, and a bunch of wireless cards. Run Cat5 up and down the inside of the fireescape (drill) and stuff the holes with firebreak.
It's not terribly difficult, but you MUST CHECK OUT CODES before doing any sort of permanent installation- why waste bandwidth by using wireless to move 'up' the building.
Hubble gave us a new perspective on what it means to feel small and insignificant in the universe. Take a look at all the images it has produced- I've downloaded many and had them dumped to AgX paper so I can hang them up on the wall.
Just don't take away the tool that has cleaned a small bit of grease off the window to the universe and let us see what's out there. We need more photos to help 'instruct' some people down here that already are too big for their own good.
...jacked it up, stripped the wheels off, yanked the speakers, stole the sundial, and pulled the wires out of the highgain antenna in orderd to set a record for wireless 802.11 transmission.
Anyone remember the episode of Law & Order where they had only days to track down a rapist... and tried to use DNA 'fingerprint' to issue a John Doe warrant? Courts rejected it.
However several new reports allow this and it's still? waiting for supreme court review. I can't find anything about any further challenges- but I don't know what I'm not searching.
http://www.courttv.com/news/hiddentraces/yalem/s id ebar_dna.html
https://coldhit.doj.ca.gov/dna/news10.htm
http://www.denverda.org/html_website/denver_da/D NA _John%20Doe_warrants.html
http://www.ndaa.org/publications/newsletters/sil en t_witness_volume_7_number_1_2002.html
I mailed our CFO and our ISS head. The ISS head blew me off with a quick, "someone else will answer it". The CFO wrote me back a longer note, CC'd in the ISS head, and another administrative contact stating "If they don't answer you in a week, let me know".
Now, as to whether or not he'll follow thru remains to be seen. But I've met him and personally find him an agreeable suit.
Now as for the IT problem? They claim it costs the company 0.40$ for a 10 meg file to be stored in email. And all I want to do is look at formulas used to reach it. Pretty simple, no?
I'll keep ya'll posted- I know you are in suspense.
This might sound a bit familiar for anyone that's had to repair a spyware infected computer. Personally, I've done 4 in 2 days. And I can tell you I'm so sick of it it's not even funny. One was so screwed up the HOSTS file was infected with encrypted javascript. Took me 3 hours just to knock that bastard down to the point I could get explorer open in under 10 minutes. Special thanks to everyone that fights it by writing those removers... god they are a lifesaver.
The previous posters will not have any problem keeping a woman entertained.... although should they continously buy gifts that meet the afore mentioned speed settings... they may not keep them long.
OK I was having fun with the submission. I mean, if there isn't enough reason to poke fun at a laser that slices the cheese... I can't really see this making into the consumer realm. at 10 watts / 20 hz it can only cut Anyways, seriously, I was just having fun with the implications of a cheese cutting "lazer"
Don't get me wrong- I don't misuse/abuse them. The screens just die. I guess I"ll pop this one apart and see if I can't clean the contacts.... heck, its useless as it is.
Thanks for the advice- didn't actually think about disassembling it for some reason.
With their newest versions I've really got to hope they've improved the quality of their LCDs. I've personally owned 5 Ti-85's (*FIVE* at at least 90$ a pop) and every single one of them had to be pitched due to the LCD dying.
To a kid in HS that was a hell of alot of change to throw away because Ti wouldn't cover the replacement. Not When I got to college and the next one was dying (someone stole it from me, thus saving me the sad time of trying to read thru broken lines) and the 3rd one died..... then the 4th died.... bought the last one my last year in college (2 HS, 3 college) which, upon turning it on this year, was discovered to have 3 functioning LCD lines.
Needless to say.... I still use my little casio because I can still read the numbers.
Previous policy was to cooperate with hijackers to prevent the loss of life. Open the door. Stop them from murdering the passengers and stewardesses.
Go along with the flow. Don't fight it. It will be resolved.
Times change. I doubt a hijacked flight will happen again without alot of bloodshed, and I doubt even stronger that, should a hijacker kill someone.... they will make it off the plane alive.
People have been goaded into taking actions and no longer becoming the passive sheep they once were on said plane. At least I've got to hope my fellow fliers feel so if it happens to me.
- I can tell you just how damn hard it is to get into the program.
I was receiving an experimental vaccine that was made from crab blood and dead cells. I flew out every month to Duke University to recieve a single, 5 minute injection. Every week upon return I experienced severe naseau, extreme tiredness (I once fell asleep in class and started snoring). I even experienced a sensation of someone placing a pair of vice grips around a tooth and shattering it. Now, I've never had that done but god DAMN it felt like that.
Thats all unforseen circumstances- how would an injection to fight cancer cause tooth pain (to the point that, while on a flight back home I nearly went berserk by running up and down the aisle- can you imagine what that wouldve triggered in todays climate???)
I can honestly and truthfully say that seeing those two photos of before and after shots brought a tear to my eye. No one should ever have to suffer the indignity of cancer; no one should have to go thru the societal rejection of being scarred for life with the surgical results that take out tissue and muscle from your body.
Most of all, no one should have to die from it.
Bash big pharma all you want, but they DO make drugs that fight off cancers. It costs a hell of alot of money- but thats all pennies when you compare government funding to the budget of a hollywood movie such as Waterworld.
I'm not religious, but I pray that that treatment makes it mainstream as soon as possible. God to have another weapon to save lives.
(and yes, I was 17 when I was diagnosed and 20 when they thought I had relapsed... so I am speaking from experience)
Honestly I think the review at bestbuy.com for Matrix Reloaded is fitting and accurate. I figure I'm going to buy the movie, edit it on the computer to get rid of everything that doesn't advance the movie or plot... and end up with about 30 minutes of material.
Put in a 5 disc DVD changer and I can watch the entire marathon, assuming the 3rd one is as good as the first, and not have to get up. If the 3rd is as pathetic as the 2nd, then I might be able to fit the trilogy onto 2 dvds;-)
I don't need your sense of humour when I've got already enough patches, upgrades, pushed software, and idiotic morons answering the phone with "Have you rebooted, suhir?"
Get off your 'joke' ideas and do your job and leave us 'user lusers' alone. We've got enough shit to do with layoffs without your idea of a 'good time'.
And no matter how well you know us, or me personally, you'd have to be a very damn good friend before I looked your name up in the company list, hit orgtree, orgtree (to get to your bosses boss) and gave him a heads up as to which employee jobs could be shipped over to a slightly more harmless continent in the middle of two seas.
There's enough jokes in management that you can just keep your own to your own 'private' friends.
What a waste of bandwidth, time, intelligence, and resources.
Joel (his real name) made a comment about the printer not always liking his documents- as if it were in a bad mood. So Dave and John (real names!) decided to have some fun. They would add some pages in the printout tray as it would dump his documents, swipe others, etc.
Eventually they spoofed an email or two from the same IP as the printer asking why Joel wasn't printing as much as he used to- the 'printer' wanted to know if he was being sexed away by the newer inkjets.
Realize this had been going on for months.
Finally I suggested changing his print server with a simple script to add random pages inside the documents by triggering on the user name.
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I wish I could find the article but a plant had one of their rollers go down on the line. Replacement parts would take 2 days, minimum, to arrive- so on a whim they had one fab'd from the rapid prototyper. They figured if it lasted 2 days it was worth it to get back up.
In fact, it ran longer than that, so they left it in place and kept the 'original' replacement part as a spare.
It's a rather funny read; sadly I can't recall where it was.
No way in hell do I want someone trashing a webserver that can't handle it.
Besides, the original piece was a PDF. Want to see how long that took to destroy the server?
I tried to include that pun in the summary, but no matter how I tried I simply couldn't get it in there. It was hard enough finding a link to the chocolate printer ;)
If you can project those three items, you have the best shot you will ever get at nailing the job.
I was asked in a whirl-wind style interview, literally "So I don't exactly understand why we are interviewing you. Your degree doesn't match the job openings". I then sincerely explained that, while my background is a dual degree in Chemistry/Chemical engineering, I've done imaging science the entire period of my employment. Threw in a few stories about projects I'd worked on, (You do have your "Problem, Action, Quantified Results" stories in your head, don't you???) and he accepted it.
Another asked about the layoffs and specifically why I was targetd. You *know* they are going to want to ask that question- be prepared to handle it. Don't whine. Don't Whine. DON"T WHINE! Remember that. Explain it as "We were told that seniority would count significantly during the layoff process. As I had just entered the group a year (or your case, 5 weeks) ago, when they pulled the project funding I was the newest, hence the least 'points' awarded during the deselection criteria"
Don't sound bitter- we all know you will be from the stories, and hearing 'laid off' doesn't have the stigma it once does. But dont' hide it in BS. If you present even a slightest bit, or get caught in a lie, you can kiss it goodbye. I've interviewed many a person and that is the one thing I listen for... I hear BS, you can use the resume to whipe it off the shoe.
:)
... weren't.
I rotated thru 4 positions now in 4 years. This next raise will be interesting because the group that 'laid me off' writes my Performance Assessment. The new group gets said performance assessment. I don't know which one decides how much 'more' I get, but if it's similiar to what I got last year then those numbers will go down (when adjusted for inflation).
Frankly, take the high starting salary- there's no guarantee you'll get more at a later date.
comes in and sues him for downloading songs off of whatever P2P network is there, the FBI knocks on his door about certain threats that originated at his IP, Comcast cancells him for selling internet 'service' without a buisness contract, and finally the IRS audits his complete accounts for 'income recieved' without the appropriate W2's.
Now, yes, WAP for 7K is easy. Buy a bunch of US Robotics, 1 for every 2 floors, and a bunch of wireless cards. Run Cat5 up and down the inside of the fireescape (drill) and stuff the holes with firebreak.
It's not terribly difficult, but you MUST CHECK OUT CODES before doing any sort of permanent installation- why waste bandwidth by using wireless to move 'up' the building.
Hubble gave us a new perspective on what it means to feel small and insignificant in the universe. Take a look at all the images it has produced- I've downloaded many and had them dumped to AgX paper so I can hang them up on the wall.
Hell, just click over to the hubble site here http://hubble.nasa.gov/image-gallery/ and you'll see star formation.
Just don't take away the tool that has cleaned a small bit of grease off the window to the universe and let us see what's out there. We need more photos to help 'instruct' some people down here that already are too big for their own good.
That way they can squeeze a few more minutes of production out of you on the can, when you are, uhhh, producing.
:)
Great Idea. Now interface it to my eye glasses so I can instantly recall names, age, birthday, kids, interests for anyone I meet.
...jacked it up, stripped the wheels off, yanked the speakers, stole the sundial, and pulled the wires out of the highgain antenna in orderd to set a record for wireless 802.11 transmission.
Anyone remember the episode of Law & Order where they had only days to track down a rapist... and tried to use DNA 'fingerprint' to issue a John Doe warrant? Courts rejected it.
s id ebar_dna.html
D NA _John%20Doe_warrants.html
l en t_witness_volume_7_number_1_2002.html
However several new reports allow this and it's still? waiting for supreme court review. I can't find anything about any further challenges- but I don't know what I'm not searching.
http://www.courttv.com/news/hiddentraces/yalem/
https://coldhit.doj.ca.gov/dna/news10.htm
http://www.denverda.org/html_website/denver_da/
http://www.ndaa.org/publications/newsletters/si
... 40 cents to *mail* a 10 megs. Doesn't matter how you get to that 10 megs, it costs the company 40 cents to do it.
Thats all, sorry for the confusion.
No, Seriously, I did.
I mailed our CFO and our ISS head. The ISS head blew me off with a quick, "someone else will answer it". The CFO wrote me back a longer note, CC'd in the ISS head, and another administrative contact stating "If they don't answer you in a week, let me know".
Now, as to whether or not he'll follow thru remains to be seen. But I've met him and personally find him an agreeable suit.
Now as for the IT problem? They claim it costs the company 0.40$ for a 10 meg file to be stored in email. And all I want to do is look at formulas used to reach it. Pretty simple, no?
I'll keep ya'll posted- I know you are in suspense.
This is a list of the files I've downloaded that worked for me.
hijackthis.zip
spybotsd12.exe
trjsetup.exe
If you search for those names that should help.
This might sound a bit familiar for anyone that's had to repair a spyware infected computer.
Personally, I've done 4 in 2 days. And I can tell you I'm so sick of it it's not even funny.
One was so screwed up the HOSTS file was infected with encrypted javascript. Took me 3 hours just to knock that bastard down to the point I could get explorer open in under 10 minutes.
Special thanks to everyone that fights it by writing those removers... god they are a lifesaver.
The previous posters will not have any problem keeping a woman entertained.... although should they continously buy gifts that meet the afore mentioned speed settings... they may not keep them long.
Yeah, thats why I had to search to find the Optics article. The ABC one was too 'good' to be true- laser's aint that good yet.
:)
Thanks for summarizing; it wouldn't fit in the post
OK I was having fun with the submission. I mean, if there isn't enough reason to poke fun at a laser that slices the cheese...
I can't really see this making into the consumer realm. at 10 watts / 20 hz it can only cut Anyways, seriously, I was just having fun with the implications of a cheese cutting "lazer"
Don't get me wrong- I don't misuse/abuse them. The screens just die. I guess I"ll pop this one apart and see if I can't clean the contacts.... heck, its useless as it is.
Thanks for the advice- didn't actually think about disassembling it for some reason.
With their newest versions I've really got to hope they've improved the quality of their LCDs. I've personally owned 5 Ti-85's (*FIVE* at at least 90$ a pop) and every single one of them had to be pitched due to the LCD dying.
To a kid in HS that was a hell of alot of change to throw away because Ti wouldn't cover the replacement. Not When I got to college and the next one was dying (someone stole it from me, thus saving me the sad time of trying to read thru broken lines) and the 3rd one died..... then the 4th died.... bought the last one my last year in college (2 HS, 3 college) which, upon turning it on this year, was discovered to have 3 functioning LCD lines.
Needless to say.... I still use my little casio because I can still read the numbers.
Opening it?
Previous policy was to cooperate with hijackers to prevent the loss of life. Open the door. Stop them from murdering the passengers and stewardesses.
Go along with the flow. Don't fight it. It will be resolved.
Times change. I doubt a hijacked flight will happen again without alot of bloodshed, and I doubt even stronger that, should a hijacker kill someone.... they will make it off the plane alive.
People have been goaded into taking actions and no longer becoming the passive sheep they once were on said plane. At least I've got to hope my fellow fliers feel so if it happens to me.
- I can tell you just how damn hard it is to get into the program.
I was receiving an experimental vaccine that was made from crab blood and dead cells. I flew out every month to Duke University to recieve a single, 5 minute injection. Every week upon return I experienced severe naseau, extreme tiredness (I once fell asleep in class and started snoring). I even experienced a sensation of someone placing a pair of vice grips around a tooth and shattering it. Now, I've never had that done but god DAMN it felt like that.
Thats all unforseen circumstances- how would an injection to fight cancer cause tooth pain (to the point that, while on a flight back home I nearly went berserk by running up and down the aisle- can you imagine what that wouldve triggered in todays climate???)
I can honestly and truthfully say that seeing those two photos of before and after shots brought a tear to my eye. No one should ever have to suffer the indignity of cancer; no one should have to go thru the societal rejection of being scarred for life with the surgical results that take out tissue and muscle from your body.
Most of all, no one should have to die from it.
Bash big pharma all you want, but they DO make drugs that fight off cancers. It costs a hell of alot of money- but thats all pennies when you compare government funding to the budget of a hollywood movie such as Waterworld.
I'm not religious, but I pray that that treatment makes it mainstream as soon as possible. God to have another weapon to save lives.
(and yes, I was 17 when I was diagnosed and 20 when they thought I had relapsed... so I am speaking from experience)
Honestly I think the review at bestbuy.com for Matrix Reloaded is fitting and accurate. I figure I'm going to buy the movie, edit it on the computer to get rid of everything that doesn't advance the movie or plot... and end up with about 30 minutes of material.
;-)
Put in a 5 disc DVD changer and I can watch the entire marathon, assuming the 3rd one is as good as the first, and not have to get up. If the 3rd is as pathetic as the 2nd, then I might be able to fit the trilogy onto 2 dvds
Link to BestBuy's review
I don't need your sense of humour when I've got already enough patches, upgrades, pushed software, and idiotic morons answering the phone with "Have you rebooted, suhir?"
Get off your 'joke' ideas and do your job and leave us 'user lusers' alone. We've got enough shit to do with layoffs without your idea of a 'good time'.
And no matter how well you know us, or me personally, you'd have to be a very damn good friend before I looked your name up in the company list, hit orgtree, orgtree (to get to your bosses boss) and gave him a heads up as to which employee jobs could be shipped over to a slightly more harmless continent in the middle of two seas.
There's enough jokes in management that you can just keep your own to your own 'private' friends.
What a waste of bandwidth, time, intelligence, and resources.
One of my coworkers pulled this off on another.
Joel (his real name) made a comment about the printer not always liking his documents- as if it were in a bad mood. So Dave and John (real names!) decided to have some fun. They would add some pages in the printout tray as it would dump his documents, swipe others, etc.
Eventually they spoofed an email or two from the same IP as the printer asking why Joel wasn't printing as much as he used to- the 'printer' wanted to know if he was being sexed away by the newer inkjets.
Realize this had been going on for months.
Finally I suggested changing his print server with a simple script to add random pages inside the documents by triggering on the user name.
I don't know if he ever found out, to be honest.