Google for spl world record I did not specifically find the quoted 177 but a few in the mid 170's.. Many of the google links describe this sport and the background.
He claims to have sold to the Navy. Big F**king Deal
I was on the Navy end of purchasing before, not from his store but many others. We often recieved complete JUNK. I am sure every command is different and this was a few years ago but...
We would place an order for hardware. Sometimes very specific things, sometimes generic. Our purchase request would be sent to accounting or purchasing and bids from local businesses were solicited. Our local accounting office was sensitive to minority, small, business owners so a black female owned small business would have a better chance of getting some contracts then a small business owned by a white man. I am in no way shape or form predjidiced or racist, I am just describing the details of the process, I DO NOT know the specific formula they used or any percentages they followed. Many people doing bidding know the game and how to take advantage of this process with husbands and wifes and children all owning thier "own" company.
There was one company that was minority owned, small and would undercut everyone else that bid. We always recieved complete CRAP from them, MB's that the serial ports did not work, MB's that did not fit a standard size. A ten pack of Zip disks but only 5 included. Old refurbed or completely dead Fujitsu HD's (at that time frame, Fujitsu had huge problems), remarked equipment etc.. Often times, some of the problems could be resolved but it required a lot of internal paperwork and phone calls. For the items we were shorted, the common excuse from them was that it was backordered and we should expect it later but the PO clearly stated order was complete and the count on the PO indicated everything was included. It was a complete scam and being a tech recieving the junk, it was not really worth the time to stop it.
Again, I've been out of the Navy for a while now so things may have changed.
I've used antivirus software and have for the last 10 years on my home network (4 heavy internet users using broadband including 2 young teens who will download anything) and the only "virus" I have EVER seen was the eicar test file for my own testing. I did get a few emails to my hotmail and yahoo accounts recently with those password protected zip files but that was it. I get spyware and spam but not viruses or worms.
With the exception of Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 terrorist strikes, the US has not had a conflict on our soil for about 150 years. You wonder why? The reason is because of our military force being what it is, not because of Alan Greenspan. If foreign forces and military powers ever attempt to make way into the US, you can run to Greenspan, I'll run to the Military.
There are lots of ways to serve one's country and it doesn't always mean to go and kill and possibly die
I agree 100% but comparing Greenspan to a soldier is not apples to oranges. People that put their own LIFE on the line for others on a daily basis or even just one strategic time get observed, recognized and noticed by a majority of society for that sacrifice. You may feel that the extra recognition is unjust or not required but I think the majority of people do when they consider it could have been them that had to do it. If Greenspan slips up one time, he collects his thoughts, learns and moves on. If a firefighter, policeman, or someone in combat slips up, there may not be a second chance.
But.. Don't plan on having any type of savings built up that you could return back to the states and live off of. At least when someone from India works in the US, they can send some money home or save money for themselves for when they return. That $10k they save here will go much further when they return home compared what you would bring back to the US after working there. If you plan to come back that is.
Noone could afford to race Nascar if not for those company decals plastered all over the cars.
I love auto racing and I love watching auto racing but I am not into circle driving and not a fan or follower of Nascar at all so my below opinion may not matter to you. You are right, Nascar would not be where it is today without mega advertising dollars but you would still be able to visit a local dirt track / closed road race / motocross and see very good competition and good racing. You may not know the names but the side by side racing is exactly the same intensity but normally at lower relative speeds then Nascar and the local racing seems less predictable which adds fun also. Same agrument with the RIAA vs. independent musicians performing locally.
No, that just means the HR department is not the IT department.
I've never recieved a complaint about sending a *.doc file resume, I've had quite a few complaints for what I thought were very standard formats like pdf, txt and rtf. The resume format I use now is an rtf manually renamed to resume.doc. If I ever edit and save it using MS Word, I clean it up with a metadata cleaner as I do not want that extra baggage attached.
I've installed it on many relatives computers. You do not need to run it as an always listening system service. The person can start it when you need to connect and stop it when you are done. I'll take my chances with that against a man in the middle.
I've used something similar for relatives. You can mimimize the negatives you speak of with some prior planning.
I start with 2 partitions, C and D. I make C roughly 1GB and install the OS and all current patches. I also install any apps and all the freeware/OSS I can find (Firefox, Thunderbird, AVG antivirus, Spybot, AbiWord or OO, Irvanview, Winamp, Dixv codecs, WinVNC (not as a service but they know how to manually start it if I need access) blah blah to the C drive or the D drive. For W2K/XP, I create a recurring backup job using MS Backup to make a backup of Documents and Settings to the D drive or for Win98, I point My Documents to D:\My Documents. I use a imaging tool to make an image and burn it over to a bootable cdr and give the computer to the relative. I give specific instructions to them that anything that gets installed from that point on goes to D:\ and I make sure the person knows to change the C:\Program Files\[some app] to a D:\Program Files\[someapp] when prompted for an install path on anything THEY install later.
When the shit hits the fan, they can boot with the "restore disk" and restore the C partition to a day one image and loose very little real data. Installing stuff over to D is not foolproof as most of the apps they install will need to be reinstalled BUT 99% of the time, they will not lose anything from that application if it is installed back to the same exact location on D:\. Of course they still need to backup thier own stuff on D in case a HD fails but that is beyond my control.
Physicians make few decisions these days. The INSURACE COMPANIES tell the doctors what drugs the can use and how many patients to see in a day....
I do not agree with your theory at all but I have no experience with a pure HMO. I've been seeing the same doctor with 4 different insurance companies over the years. I can not see how each insurance company he accepts are all controlling him at the same time. I get the same drugs and the same treatments regardless of what insurance company I've had. Yeah, the free samples change from time to time but that's it. In fact, I'd be willing to bet the only two people in the office that even know what insurance I have are myself and the receptionist who photocopied my card.
Very good description. Small point to add to those not familiar with nuclear power generation.
Unknown to the Operators
They should have known! Specially a group doing "physics testing". Anyone that has ever been anywhere near operating a nuclear power plant knows about Xenon and the key times involved when dealing with Xenon. Reactor power is nothing more then summing the +'s and -'s. Some things add reactivity and some subtract it, when all factors considered equal 0, the reactor is "critical". Of course any factor that changes can easily swing it the other way. Here is a BASIC example scenario with a pressurized water type reactor:
The operator raises the control rods which adds + reactivity (less control rods to absorb neutrons so the U23x can absorb more), that increases power and causes temperature to increase, temperature increasing causes the water density to go down which adds - reactivity (more space between water molecules so more neutrons can escape the core and not be absorbed by the U23x) and the reactor power goes back down. The final result in a minute or so is the same reactor power but the core temperature went up a few degrees. All of this can easily be calculated on paper based on a current plant design.
Of course Chernobyl was not a pressurized water reactor and actually had a positive temperature coefficient (as temperature went up, power went up) so it would act differently but the point is the same, all things need considered.
The effects of poisons, fuel loading, core age, current coolant temperature, and recent previous reactor power history is taught from day 1. For plants operating at consistent power levels, Xenon does stabilize and becomes less of a factor but not something you can forget about by any means. These factors and others are also taken into consideration before starting the reactor, independent parties should calculate at what rod height criticallity should occur (the US Navy requires this on paper by hand using the previous reactor operating logs, design graphs and a calculator). At that point you would realize if you were Xenon precluded (which Chernobyl apparently was). A reactor startup and warmup evolution are the *MOST* demanding for planning and potential for damage. The overall plant is going through many structural stresses due to various rates of temperature and pressure changes and is generally operating further from protective setpoints which means once something gets out of control and fission being momentum based, it takes longer to reach a setpoint before a protective action or operator action can occur, at that point, it may too late.
According to my usenet provider, 50TB only provides roughly 30 days retention for roughly 68k groups. That is over 1.5TB of data a day. Add the traffic from users downloading from there and you have a assload^3 of traffic.
I'll soon be finishing up my extensive long term testing of an Apollo 735 HP-UX Unix Workstation with a 125Mhz PA-7200 PA-RISC processor. I'll post the results for you if you are in the market for one of these. You can still find them on Ebay for about $5.;)
For example, a software monopoly would be breaching this if they sold their office suite for next to nothing. Often, the key is whether the company has sold for below their cost.
How is a "loss" for software calculted? If you sell 1 copy for $10 million or 10 copies for a $1 million, the result is the same (assuming the physical media and distribution price is zero). What if they sell it for $1 and sell 10 million copies? How can software really be sold for a loss? It is not a physical product that needs to be made over and over to meet demand. Once it is complete, the future costs are almost nothing with the exceptions of newer versions but that cost should be recouped when selling that new version.
Just wondering as I've never thought about it from that angle.
Are you serious? A watch provides the standard for a time base correction to the beer goggles. When used together, a 10pm chick should be much better looking then a 1am chick. Without this time correction, you risk leaving early with a 2am chick which in most states is also considered a "closing" chick.
Good traffic reports CAN help you. Almost every traffic report given by any radio station are useless, the only exception I've ever heard is for those that live in the DC area that listen to WTOP (they have a listen live link and traffic is on the 8's if you want to here an example. They describe the traffic, what the bailouts are like, what is causing the delay and expected recovery time, the status of the cause (police on scene, sunshine delays, loading the smashed car on the truck, moving pothole repair crew blocking left lane, lights short timing, cars moved off to the median, rubbernecking etc...), references to previous days like worse or better or simply volume delays. Their reports are very detailed and not just telling you that interstate whatever is backed up to exit whatever. They have a very detailed picture of what is and was going on in the DC area and they describe it very well to the listeners.
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Funny but if something did happen, the system would be a failure.
When you "think" about doing something, you are deciding via pros and cons, deciding outcome, looking at all options, recounting experience, true desire... on wether to do something or not. When you really decide to act, you act. That signal to act causes you to act. Thinking about acting is not acting. The final go ahead trigger to act is what matters. How else could you make a logical decision about anything? If you take out the thought process involved, we all would be living in a completely different world.
Consider the mouse and the bottle. If the mouse really wanted to get a drink, he would go over and get one. It's not like some force is holding him back and he keeps thinking about it but he just (slow superhero struggling voice) can't moooooooove.
These same cover your arse PHB's may not like the fact that the language they depend on has no "official support"
ANY commercial software and physical product or device risks losing support. How many times have you heard that you need to upgrade to version x+1 to be able to do that or that specific functionality you need is fixed in x+2. Support and riding the upgrade train are two different things. What some companies consider a fix, others consider a feature.
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Google for spl world record
I did not specifically find the quoted 177 but a few in the mid 170's.. Many of the google links describe this sport and the background.
He claims to have sold to the Navy.
Big F**king Deal
I was on the Navy end of purchasing before, not from his store but many others. We often recieved complete JUNK. I am sure every command is different and this was a few years ago but...
We would place an order for hardware. Sometimes very specific things, sometimes generic. Our purchase request would be sent to accounting or purchasing and bids from local businesses were solicited. Our local accounting office was sensitive to minority, small, business owners so a black female owned small business would have a better chance of getting some contracts then a small business owned by a white man. I am in no way shape or form predjidiced or racist, I am just describing the details of the process, I DO NOT know the specific formula they used or any percentages they followed. Many people doing bidding know the game and how to take advantage of this process with husbands and wifes and children all owning thier "own" company.
There was one company that was minority owned, small and would undercut everyone else that bid. We always recieved complete CRAP from them, MB's that the serial ports did not work, MB's that did not fit a standard size. A ten pack of Zip disks but only 5 included. Old refurbed or completely dead Fujitsu HD's (at that time frame, Fujitsu had huge problems), remarked equipment etc.. Often times, some of the problems could be resolved but it required a lot of internal paperwork and phone calls. For the items we were shorted, the common excuse from them was that it was backordered and we should expect it later but the PO clearly stated order was complete and the count on the PO indicated everything was included. It was a complete scam and being a tech recieving the junk, it was not really worth the time to stop it.
Again, I've been out of the Navy for a while now so things may have changed.
I've used antivirus software and have for the last 10 years on my home network (4 heavy internet users using broadband including 2 young teens who will download anything) and the only "virus" I have EVER seen was the eicar test file for my own testing. I did get a few emails to my hotmail and yahoo accounts recently with those password protected zip files but that was it. I get spyware and spam but not viruses or worms.
With the exception of Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 terrorist strikes, the US has not had a conflict on our soil for about 150 years. You wonder why? The reason is because of our military force being what it is, not because of Alan Greenspan. If foreign forces and military powers ever attempt to make way into the US, you can run to Greenspan, I'll run to the Military.
There are lots of ways to serve one's country and it doesn't always mean to go and kill and possibly die
I agree 100% but comparing Greenspan to a soldier is not apples to oranges. People that put their own LIFE on the line for others on a daily basis or even just one strategic time get observed, recognized and noticed by a majority of society for that sacrifice. You may feel that the extra recognition is unjust or not required but I think the majority of people do when they consider it could have been them that had to do it. If Greenspan slips up one time, he collects his thoughts, learns and moves on. If a firefighter, policeman, or someone in combat slips up, there may not be a second chance.
But.. Don't plan on having any type of savings built up that you could return back to the states and live off of. At least when someone from India works in the US, they can send some money home or save money for themselves for when they return. That $10k they save here will go much further when they return home compared what you would bring back to the US after working there. If you plan to come back that is.
Noone could afford to race Nascar if not for those company decals plastered all over the cars.
I love auto racing and I love watching auto racing but I am not into circle driving and not a fan or follower of Nascar at all so my below opinion may not matter to you.
You are right, Nascar would not be where it is today without mega advertising dollars but you would still be able to visit a local dirt track / closed road race / motocross and see very good competition and good racing. You may not know the names but the side by side racing is exactly the same intensity but normally at lower relative speeds then Nascar and the local racing seems less predictable which adds fun also. Same agrument with the RIAA vs. independent musicians performing locally.
No, that just means the HR department is not the IT department.
I've never recieved a complaint about sending a *.doc file resume, I've had quite a few complaints for what I thought were very standard formats like pdf, txt and rtf. The resume format I use now is an rtf manually renamed to resume.doc. If I ever edit and save it using MS Word, I clean it up with a metadata cleaner as I do not want that extra baggage attached.
My download only has 287 hours to go.. I'm going to start my Gentoo install and see which one finishes first.
Okay, I'll admit that I actually read the articles before posting but this one was odd. I got confused after reading half of the first sentence.
Some of the biggest players in the mobile industry, including Nokia, Vodafone and Microsoft
Microsoft? I did not know they are one of the biggest players in the phone industry. Did anyone else know this?
I've installed it on many relatives computers. You do not need to run it as an always listening system service. The person can start it when you need to connect and stop it when you are done. I'll take my chances with that against a man in the middle.
I've used something similar for relatives. You can mimimize the negatives you speak of with some prior planning.
I start with 2 partitions, C and D. I make C roughly 1GB and install the OS and all current patches. I also install any apps and all the freeware/OSS I can find (Firefox, Thunderbird, AVG antivirus, Spybot, AbiWord or OO, Irvanview, Winamp, Dixv codecs, WinVNC (not as a service but they know how to manually start it if I need access) blah blah to the C drive or the D drive. For W2K/XP, I create a recurring backup job using MS Backup to make a backup of Documents and Settings to the D drive or for Win98, I point My Documents to D:\My Documents. I use a imaging tool to make an image and burn it over to a bootable cdr and give the computer to the relative.
I give specific instructions to them that anything that gets installed from that point on goes to D:\ and I make sure the person knows to change the C:\Program Files\[some app] to a D:\Program Files\[someapp] when prompted for an install path on anything THEY install later.
When the shit hits the fan, they can boot with the "restore disk" and restore the C partition to a day one image and loose very little real data. Installing stuff over to D is not foolproof as most of the apps they install will need to be reinstalled BUT 99% of the time, they will not lose anything from that application if it is installed back to the same exact location on D:\. Of course they still need to backup thier own stuff on D in case a HD fails but that is beyond my control.
I just sold my calc book back to my school because I was short on cash.
;)
Selling your books is very short sighted. You need to be thinking more of a long term stategy like giving blood and eating Raman noodles.
Chiara Trombetti, of the Humanitas Gavazzeni institute of Bergamo
That is a mouthful, I tried running this through a language translater but still returned nothing useful. Looks like an adlib
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Physicians make few decisions these days. The INSURACE COMPANIES tell the doctors what drugs the can use and how many patients to see in a day....
I do not agree with your theory at all but I have no experience with a pure HMO. I've been seeing the same doctor with 4 different insurance companies over the years. I can not see how each insurance company he accepts are all controlling him at the same time. I get the same drugs and the same treatments regardless of what insurance company I've had. Yeah, the free samples change from time to time but that's it. In fact, I'd be willing to bet the only two people in the office that even know what insurance I have are myself and the receptionist who photocopied my card.
Very good description. Small point to add to those not familiar with nuclear power generation.
Unknown to the Operators
They should have known! Specially a group doing "physics testing". Anyone that has ever been anywhere near operating a nuclear power plant knows about Xenon and the key times involved when dealing with Xenon. Reactor power is nothing more then summing the +'s and -'s. Some things add reactivity and some subtract it, when all factors considered equal 0, the reactor is "critical". Of course any factor that changes can easily swing it the other way. Here is a BASIC example scenario with a pressurized water type reactor:
The operator raises the control rods which adds + reactivity (less control rods to absorb neutrons so the U23x can absorb more), that increases power and causes temperature to increase, temperature increasing causes the water density to go down which adds - reactivity (more space between water molecules so more neutrons can escape the core and not be absorbed by the U23x) and the reactor power goes back down. The final result in a minute or so is the same reactor power but the core temperature went up a few degrees. All of this can easily be calculated on paper based on a current plant design.
Of course Chernobyl was not a pressurized water reactor and actually had a positive temperature coefficient (as temperature went up, power went up) so it would act differently but the point is the same, all things need considered.
The effects of poisons, fuel loading, core age, current coolant temperature, and recent previous reactor power history is taught from day 1. For plants operating at consistent power levels, Xenon does stabilize and becomes less of a factor but not something you can forget about by any means. These factors and others are also taken into consideration before starting the reactor, independent parties should calculate at what rod height criticallity should occur (the US Navy requires this on paper by hand using the previous reactor operating logs, design graphs and a calculator). At that point you would realize if you were Xenon precluded (which Chernobyl apparently was). A reactor startup and warmup evolution are the *MOST* demanding for planning and potential for damage. The overall plant is going through many structural stresses due to various rates of temperature and pressure changes and is generally operating further from protective setpoints which means once something gets out of control and fission being momentum based, it takes longer to reach a setpoint before a protective action or operator action can occur, at that point, it may too late.
Even more off topic but interesting anyway..
According to my usenet provider, 50TB only provides roughly 30 days retention for roughly 68k groups. That is over 1.5TB of data a day. Add the traffic from users downloading from there and you have a assload^3 of traffic.
I'll soon be finishing up my extensive long term testing of an Apollo 735 HP-UX Unix Workstation with a 125Mhz PA-7200 PA-RISC processor. I'll post the results for you if you are in the market for one of these. You can still find them on Ebay for about $5. ;)
For example, a software monopoly would be breaching this if they sold their office suite for next to nothing. Often, the key is whether the company has sold for below their cost.
How is a "loss" for software calculted? If you sell 1 copy for $10 million or 10 copies for a $1 million, the result is the same (assuming the physical media and distribution price is zero). What if they sell it for $1 and sell 10 million copies? How can software really be sold for a loss? It is not a physical product that needs to be made over and over to meet demand. Once it is complete, the future costs are almost nothing with the exceptions of newer versions but that cost should be recouped when selling that new version.
Just wondering as I've never thought about it from that angle.
With an obvious exception being OPEC with oil.
Are you serious?
A watch provides the standard for a time base correction to the beer goggles. When used together, a 10pm chick should be much better looking then a 1am chick. Without this time correction, you risk leaving early with a 2am chick which in most states is also considered a "closing" chick.
I use alcohol and a watch. You must really be desperate.
My house has a well for water and a septic system for waste. I am already doing what you suggest you insensitive clod!
Good traffic reports CAN help you. Almost every traffic report given by any radio station are useless, the only exception I've ever heard is for those that live in the DC area that listen to WTOP (they have a listen live link and traffic is on the 8's if you want to here an example. They describe the traffic, what the bailouts are like, what is causing the delay and expected recovery time, the status of the cause (police on scene, sunshine delays, loading the smashed car on the truck, moving pothole repair crew blocking left lane, lights short timing, cars moved off to the median, rubbernecking etc...), references to previous days like worse or better or simply volume delays. Their reports are very detailed and not just telling you that interstate whatever is backed up to exit whatever. They have a very detailed picture of what is and was going on in the DC area and they describe it very well to the listeners.
Funny but if something did happen, the system would be a failure.
When you "think" about doing something, you are deciding via pros and cons, deciding outcome, looking at all options, recounting experience, true desire... on wether to do something or not. When you really decide to act, you act. That signal to act causes you to act. Thinking about acting is not acting. The final go ahead trigger to act is what matters. How else could you make a logical decision about anything? If you take out the thought process involved, we all would be living in a completely different world.
Consider the mouse and the bottle. If the mouse really wanted to get a drink, he would go over and get one. It's not like some force is holding him back and he keeps thinking about it but he just (slow superhero struggling voice) can't moooooooove.
These same cover your arse PHB's may not like the fact that the language they depend on has no "official support"
ANY commercial software and physical product or device risks losing support. How many times have you heard that you need to upgrade to version x+1 to be able to do that or that specific functionality you need is fixed in x+2. Support and riding the upgrade train are two different things. What some companies consider a fix, others consider a feature.