Re:His name was Timothy McViegh!
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I don't think Mr. McViegh was a Christian, any more than I believe that any of the "Islamic terrorists" are true believers of Islam. Both faiths teach peace and forgiveness. It's perversions of the faiths that leads to the McVeighs and the Bin Ladens of the world.
Ummm...the T1 costs so much because it's tarriffed that way by the ILEC. That price is well above the actual cost of service. The typical ILEC does not use T1s for internal traffic; if they're not using OC-x fiber links, they're using HDSL lines because they so much cheaper to operate, and they're not tarriffed.
Why would they be paying that much for transit? There is plenty of fiber capacity available, and there are companies with a secure business case of providing 100Mbps (going to 1Gbps) point to point across the whole continent for $1K/month. Transit is not the expensive part, near as I can tell. I believe it's the last mile effect again. It's just way expensive to actually get TO your house.
Your situation sounds like mine. I've been an @Home customer for 3 years, and except for 3 bad months in 1999, things have been very good. Routinely get 3Mbps and sometimes 4-5Mbps downlink throughputs, and my family has come to be quite used to always-on, high speed internet. I think my wife would be QUITE UNHAPPY if we have to go back to dialup...she might convince me to chop down one of the beautiful trees in in our front yard so we could get a shot at a satellite.
Most of my machines are Linux, including the firewall. The only Windows machine is the kids' game machine.
I've been a hiring manager at a large high-tech firm, and I can affirm that there WAS a severe shortage of US citizens that were skilled enough to do the kind of work that my company does. We recruited at all the colleges and held job fairs all the time. We saw all kinds of people, US citizens and noncitizens, young and not-so-young, and we found VERY slim pickings among the US citizens. Nearly all those qualified were already fully employed. We prefer to hire US citizens, because there is SO much less paperwork. But we couldn't, because we just couldn't find them. When I started with my company 15 years ago, it was predominantly inhabited by Anglo Saxons, with a few Indians (not native Americans) thrown in. Now, among the programming staff, it's 60-80% Indian/Arab/Chinese. I would say 90%, but some might acuse me of exaggurating.
Like many companies, we've had layoffs, and we did not target the visa holders any more than the citizens. And we certainly have not targeted older workers. I'm very glad about that; I'm rapidly becoming an "older worker". I'm 38, and I'm already one of the most senior (in age) design folks around.
I have seen an issue where some of the "senior" designers, who had spent most of their career working on our proprietary technology, did not make the effort to learn new tricks (learning Java, object oriented design, etc.) and in fact actively resisted any assignment that might have exposed them to new ways of doing business. These behaviors have exposed them to greater likelihood of job loss than those who embrace new technology.
No, the supermarket discount card means you get to pay the same prices other stores charge, in exchange for letting the store track your purchases. Example: here in Dallas, Albertson's has no store card; Tom Thumb has one. Tom Thumb's prices are outrageous without the card. With the card, they are only slightly higher than Albertson's.
This information is not being used to make sure they stock the right kind of ice cream for you; they're already able to track aggregate purchases through their inventory system. What they are able to do is track specific purchases and offer you enticing discounts or associated purchases. Are you a regular buyer of condoms? They'll offer you premium brands, or foams, or pregnancy kits, or discounts on diapers and formula, etc. Buy Preparation H? You'll receive a discount coupon from your local proctologist...
On my main machine (reiserfs, of course!) I had the stupidity to quickly type "rm -rf/lib" rather than "rm -rf lib". I quickly control-Ced the operation, but ReiserFS deletes FAST.
It was funny...all applications currently running (browser, etc.) were all still happily running and usable, but I could not execute ANY new commands at the shell prompt.
I decided to take that opportunity to upgrade to SuSE 7.0. I'm very glad I didn't wipe my wife's files...
Uhhh...what's your point? Private organizations SHOULD be able to put whatever requirements they want to on employees. I would expect that all employees of a Christian school to be practicing Christians.
OTOH, institutions supported by public funds are the ones that have to be careful about non-discrimination laws.
Ooh! I forgot about them! Guess I better start designing a space port for the Southern Baptist Convention. Maybe we'll just lease from one of the Japanese space agencies.
What religious fanatics would those be? Can't be the Christians; we're all raring to go evangelize the (non-existent) alien races on other (non-life-bearing) planets.
Better brush up on my terraforming techniques.
My wife and I enjoy science fiction movies, because we enjoy conversing about the possibilities raised by the movie afterwards (makes good pillow talk). "Battlefield Earth" was extraordinary in the fact that for days afterwards we were still deeply engrossed in ferreting out the myriad flaws and gaffes in the film. It really was a relationship building experience!
BTW, "The Matrix" was also a relationship building movie, but for entirely different reasons.
You have a point, and we don't run that many games that need direct control over the video hardware.
However, I'm so fed up with the cruddy Microsoft OSes that I'm ready to jump anywhere else, even if it means selecting something other than Quicken for finances. I run a mixture of WinNT 4.0 Server, WinNT 4.0 workstation, Solaris 2.7, and Linux 5.2 and 6.0 in my labs at work, and Windows gives us the most trouble by far. We have several products currently using WinNT that we are currently migrating to Solaris, simply because we have so many problems with the lack of reliability we experience with WinNT.
I'm currently trying to hire two WinNT Server Sysadmins to run my WinNT shop, and I'm having a hard time finding qualified, experienced personnel, because good ones are in so much demand because WinNT is so hard to keep running reliably.
I find it amusing that Sun is mocking Microsoft when Scott McNealy "borrowed" his whole Webtone focus and wording from John Roth, CEO of Nortel Networks. Solar flare must have fried their memories.
Not that I like Microsoft. I dream of a Microsoft free day. My wife (a computer novice) almost weekly begs me to dump Win98 on our home machine and install Linux. She is extremely frustrated by the fact that Win98 croaks constantly and yearns for the stability I experience at work with our linux boxes.
Hmm, that would keep the kids off our machine and on theirs...
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I don't think Mr. McViegh was a Christian, any more than I believe that any of the "Islamic terrorists" are true believers of Islam. Both faiths teach peace and forgiveness. It's perversions of the faiths that leads to the McVeighs and the Bin Ladens of the world.
Ummm...the T1 costs so much because it's tarriffed that way by the ILEC. That price is well above the actual cost of service. The typical ILEC does not use T1s for internal traffic; if they're not using OC-x fiber links, they're using HDSL lines because they so much cheaper to operate, and they're not tarriffed.
Why would they be paying that much for transit? There is plenty of fiber capacity available, and there are companies with a secure business case of providing 100Mbps (going to 1Gbps) point to point across the whole continent for $1K/month. Transit is not the expensive part, near as I can tell. I believe it's the last mile effect again. It's just way expensive to actually get TO your house.
Your situation sounds like mine. I've been an @Home customer for 3 years, and except for 3 bad months in 1999, things have been very good. Routinely get 3Mbps and sometimes 4-5Mbps downlink throughputs, and my family has come to be quite used to always-on, high speed internet. I think my wife would be QUITE UNHAPPY if we have to go back to dialup...she might convince me to chop down one of the beautiful trees in in our front yard so we could get a shot at a satellite.
Most of my machines are Linux, including the firewall. The only Windows machine is the kids' game machine.
I've been a hiring manager at a large high-tech firm, and I can affirm that there WAS a severe shortage of US citizens that were skilled enough to do the kind of work that my company does. We recruited at all the colleges and held job fairs all the time. We saw all kinds of people, US citizens and noncitizens, young and not-so-young, and we found VERY slim pickings among the US citizens. Nearly all those qualified were already fully employed. We prefer to hire US citizens, because there is SO much less paperwork. But we couldn't, because we just couldn't find them. When I started with my company 15 years ago, it was predominantly inhabited by Anglo Saxons, with a few Indians (not native Americans) thrown in. Now, among the programming staff, it's 60-80% Indian/Arab/Chinese. I would say 90%, but some might acuse me of exaggurating.
Like many companies, we've had layoffs, and we did not target the visa holders any more than the citizens. And we certainly have not targeted older workers. I'm very glad about that; I'm rapidly becoming an "older worker". I'm 38, and I'm already one of the most senior (in age) design folks around.
I have seen an issue where some of the "senior" designers, who had spent most of their career working on our proprietary technology, did not make the effort to learn new tricks (learning Java, object oriented design, etc.) and in fact actively resisted any assignment that might have exposed them to new ways of doing business. These behaviors have exposed them to greater likelihood of job loss than those who embrace new technology.
No, the supermarket discount card means you get to pay the same prices other stores charge, in exchange for letting the store track your purchases. Example: here in Dallas, Albertson's has no store card; Tom Thumb has one. Tom Thumb's prices are outrageous without the card. With the card, they are only slightly higher than Albertson's.
This information is not being used to make sure they stock the right kind of ice cream for you; they're already able to track aggregate purchases through their inventory system. What they are able to do is track specific purchases and offer you enticing discounts or associated purchases. Are you a regular buyer of condoms? They'll offer you premium brands, or foams, or pregnancy kits, or discounts on diapers and formula, etc. Buy Preparation H? You'll receive a discount coupon from your local proctologist...
On my main machine (reiserfs, of course!) I had the stupidity to quickly type "rm -rf /lib" rather than "rm -rf lib". I quickly control-Ced the operation, but ReiserFS deletes FAST.
It was funny...all applications currently running (browser, etc.) were all still happily running and usable, but I could not execute ANY new commands at the shell prompt.
I decided to take that opportunity to upgrade to SuSE 7.0. I'm very glad I didn't wipe my wife's files...
Uhhh...what's your point? Private organizations SHOULD be able to put whatever requirements they want to on employees. I would expect that all employees of a Christian school to be practicing Christians. OTOH, institutions supported by public funds are the ones that have to be careful about non-discrimination laws.
Ooh! I forgot about them! Guess I better start designing a space port for the Southern Baptist Convention. Maybe we'll just lease from one of the Japanese space agencies.
Think "Bladerunner". Gradual migration of best and brightest offworld, with the majority of humanity left to swim in the cesspool.
What religious fanatics would those be? Can't be the Christians; we're all raring to go evangelize the (non-existent) alien races on other (non-life-bearing) planets. Better brush up on my terraforming techniques.
My wife and I enjoy science fiction movies, because we enjoy conversing about the possibilities raised by the movie afterwards (makes good pillow talk). "Battlefield Earth" was extraordinary in the fact that for days afterwards we were still deeply engrossed in ferreting out the myriad flaws and gaffes in the film. It really was a relationship building experience!
BTW, "The Matrix" was also a relationship building movie, but for entirely different reasons.
You have a point, and we don't run that many games that need direct control over the video hardware.
However, I'm so fed up with the cruddy Microsoft OSes that I'm ready to jump anywhere else, even if it means selecting something other than Quicken for finances. I run a mixture of WinNT 4.0 Server, WinNT 4.0 workstation, Solaris 2.7, and Linux 5.2 and 6.0 in my labs at work, and Windows gives us the most trouble by far. We have several products currently using WinNT that we are currently migrating to Solaris, simply because we have so many problems with the lack of reliability we experience with WinNT.
I'm currently trying to hire two WinNT Server Sysadmins to run my WinNT shop, and I'm having a hard time finding qualified, experienced personnel, because good ones are in so much demand because WinNT is so hard to keep running reliably.
I find it amusing that Sun is mocking Microsoft when Scott McNealy "borrowed" his whole Webtone focus and wording from John Roth, CEO of Nortel Networks. Solar flare must have fried their memories.
Not that I like Microsoft. I dream of a Microsoft free day. My wife (a computer novice) almost weekly begs me to dump Win98 on our home machine and install Linux. She is extremely frustrated by the fact that Win98 croaks constantly and yearns for the stability I experience at work with our linux boxes.
Hmm, that would keep the kids off our machine and on theirs...